hiden programs?

[LoRene]

What are these:
WildTangent Control Panel
DirectX9 Hotfix KB839643
Microsoft XML Parser and SDK
Windows 2000 Hotfix KB823182 and 11 other numbers
Windows Media Player Hotfix (See Q828026 for more info)

 

[Dave Patrick]

The first one may be spyware. The others are legit.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| What are these:
| WildTangent Control Panel
| DirectX9 Hotfix KB839643
| Microsoft XML Parser and SDK
| Windows 2000 Hotfix KB823182 and 11 other numbers
| Windows Media Player Hotfix (See Q828026 for more info)
|
|

 

[tlviewer]

The first one may be spyware. The others are legit.

Dave is right, it is bonafide spyware. It registers
a BHO (dll) and installs an EXE as parent to that
BHO, and as long as you have a browser (IE) open
it will make numerous connections to
www.wildtangent.com. Open [netstat -a]
and you will see those connections.

regards,
tlviewer

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| What are these:
| WildTangent Control Panel
| DirectX9 Hotfix KB839643
| Microsoft XML Parser and SDK
| Windows 2000 Hotfix KB823182 and 11 other numbers
| Windows Media Player Hotfix (See Q828026 for more info)
|
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