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[Guest]

Does anyone have any idea why I keep seeing a blank window popup on my
taskbar? It pops up with no name and then it goes away. It happens about
every 5 minutes.
I ran virus scans and Microsoft Anti-spyware and found nothing.

 

[Charlie Tame]

You should also try AdAware and Spybot, these and the MS Antispyware all
tend to find different things.

I have seen this a couple of times with legit programs but not every 5
minutes

You could try using the firewall to see if you can "Trap" this thing but I'd
go the scanning route first.


--
SpyBot Search and Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/
Microsoft Antispyware
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en
Ad Aware
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE...045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5
Important - LSP-Fix
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm

Be aware that using either of these to actually remove spyware can result in
some programs refusing to work, in other words "Free" programs that you
downloaded on condition you accepted ads and so called "Research" may get
broken and you might want to uninstall them first. Some spyware actually
breaks Windows trying to force it's way in and you should arm yourself with
LSP-Fix before starting in case you lose internet connectivity.

http://www.broomeman.com/spyware/

Charlie

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Suzalarry" <[email protected]>

| Does anyone have any idea why I keep seeing a blank window popup on my
| taskbar? It pops up with no name and then it goes away. It happens about
| every 5 minutes.
| I ran virus scans and Microsoft Anti-spyware and found nothing.


For non-viral malware...

Please download, install and update the following software...

* Ad-aware SE v1.06
http://www.lavasoft.de/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

* SpyBot Search and Destroy v1.4
http://security.kolla.de/

After the software is updated, I suggest scanning the system in Safe Mode.

I also suggest downloading, installing and updating BHODemon for any Browser Helper Objects
that may be on the PC.

* BHODemon
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm

For viral malware...

* Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.


* * * Please report back your results * * *

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

Does anyone have any idea why I keep seeing a blank window popup on my
taskbar? It pops up with no name and then it goes away. It happens
about every 5 minutes.
I ran virus scans and Microsoft Anti-spyware and found nothing.

"How to troubleshoot by using the System Configuration utility in
Windows XP" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310560

 

[Alceryes]

Does anyone have any idea why I keep seeing a blank window popup on my
taskbar? It pops up with no name and then it goes away. It happens about
every 5 minutes.
I ran virus scans and Microsoft Anti-spyware and found nothing.

Open up task manager and watch the process list when that window comes up.
Do it a couple of times to make sure you get the right .exe starting up.
Then go here - http://www.processlibrary.com/ and type in the process to see
what it is.
I have run into something like this on OEM systems right out of the box.

 

[Plato]

Does anyone have any idea why I keep seeing a blank window popup on my
taskbar? It pops up with no name and then it goes away. It happens about
every 5 minutes.
I ran virus scans and Microsoft Anti-spyware and found nothing.

It's most likely not spyware or virus. It's most likely a small free
utility you downloaded and installed that is running and creating the
blank window on the taskbar. I, perhaps, test more utils then most and
run into this several times/year.