CMSS.EXE

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Took an alert fromMcAfee today--caught a Trojan. Got a question. When
reviewing the processes running on my my XP Pro machine, I see the two files
CMSS.exe and SMSS.exe running--one from System32 and the other from
"nowhere". Is this normal or am I having some weird, trojan-related issue?

Thanks
 
Hi Old Timer,

Took an alert fromMcAfee today--caught a Trojan. Got a question. When
reviewing the processes running on my my XP Pro machine, I see the two files
CMSS.exe and SMSS.exe running--one from System32 and the other from
"nowhere". Is this normal or am I having some weird, trojan-related issue?

Thanks
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I have SMSS.exe running, I don't have CMSS.exe, nor did I find it in
Microsoft's knowledge base. A look in Google yielded 2 results, both
in Oriental languages

Take a look at these pages to see if you find CMSS.exe there:
http://www.azpchelp.com/StartupListQ-U.htm

http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm

http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.htm

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/

You can do an antivirus scan and another using ad-aware and spybot to
look for malware:

Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Spybot S&D
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download

Good luck
 
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