Phantom program runs for a second

[Kris Duck]

Hi people.

I'm having an issue with a program that seems to run for a second, then closes
immediately. It pops up in my taskbar and disappears again before I can see what
it is. If I'm playing a game at the time, it boots me to desktop whenever it
happens. It does it seemingly randomly, maybe once every five minutes sometimes,
other times an hour goes by.

Is there a way to get a logfile that shows what programs launch when? I can't
get a screenshot of it, or find it in task manager because it's only there for a
second, and might take ages to watch for.

Thanks in advance,

Kris

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Kris

Please try the following programs to check for any spyware that might be on
your system:

Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.or­g/
CWShredder - http://forum.aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip
Spy Sweeper - www.webroot.com
Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com

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Will Denny
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
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[Kris Duck]

Thanks for the help, but the scans only brought up some tracking cookies.

This seems to be caused by something I've installed when I changed a bunch of
hardware recently. I thought maybe it was some of the motherboard software, but
I'm not certain. I wanted to try to find it before I went and deleted
everything. There must be something that can log the running of programs...

Thanks again for the help so far.

Cheers,

Kris

 

[Malke]

Thanks for the help, but the scans only brought up some tracking
cookies.

This seems to be caused by something I've installed when I changed a
bunch of hardware recently. I thought maybe it was some of the
motherboard software, but I'm not certain. I wanted to try to find it
before I went and deleted everything. There must be something that can
log the running of programs...

Maybe one of the Systernals tools, like Process Explorer.
http://www.systernals.com

Malke

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Hi people.

I'm having an issue with a program that seems to run for a second, then closes
immediately. It pops up in my taskbar and disappears again before I can see what
it is.

Here is my private tool LogFGwin.
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/logfgwin.zip

Not made for publishing and therefore very ugly.
But it should show you what process shows this
windows. Simply let the tool run, wait until the
window appeared and then have a look in LogFGwin's
list.

Greetings from Germany

Uwe