Stephen F. Smith said:
Running Win XP, up-to-date on updates, strong A/V & Firewall protection.
Getting Data Execution Prevention message for Spooler App from Microsoft,
and
Windows is shutting it down. Been getting a similar notification but no
shutdown message on a third-party application. Whats up with this?
Something has caused both of them to attempt executing data. Executing data
is one of the favorite ways for hackers to enter your system. And, their
favorite targets are programs like spoolsrv.
Perhaps you have malware on your system that your A/V system has not
identified. None of the anti-virus products find all virus infections.
And, of course, you could have some other kind of malware (which products
like spybot and adaware are intended to intercept).
I would get David Lipman's programs to examine your system in detail. I am
not saying that you necessarily have malware, but in the case of these two
programs, it pays to be safe.
On my system, every now and then Explorer tries to execute data. To date,
this attempt was prevented by DEP. As explorer gets messages from wherever,
it is a favorite target as well.
Jim
