Program Error - WinMgmt.exe

[Gregg]

I have a workstation where immediately after you boot it
up and while it is running I get a continuous error
message popping up even without any applications or
programs open. The error message is "Program Error -
WinMgmt.exe has generated errors and will be closed by
Windows. You will need to restart your program."
Can someone tell me how to get rid of this continuous pop-
up error message?

Thanks.

 

[Biz4two]

Start with this:

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hey m8 i know this file
this file is a hacked servu file hackers use this to hack
different systems they using a scanner to scan the ips and
i think they have scanned your ip and try to acces on your
computer that was sucsesfull that means that you 've not
installed a firewall or protect your pc to this stuff.
Ok you can do different things the most dir what they use
are those:

c:\RECYCLER\
c:\winnt\system32\Setup
c:\winnt\system32\ias

or in c:\progam-files

you can look for the servudaemon.ini do in start->search
then type this:
*.*.ini then look if you see a ini and copy him to your
desktop and watch whats in there you can see what port
they use for acces on your pc try with a ftp client to
connect on that port with your own pc. look if winmgnt.exe
is also there if you hve luck you can delete the file or
try the same in search for winmgnt.exe it can be possible
that they have put it in a another dir. If you can delete
it you have luck otherwhise if you have guest acces on
your school pc you cant disable the proces ask the system
administrator of your school to login and try to disable
the system and delete the file. The .ini file can also be
a .dll file servudaemon.dll or ml_hconf.dll.

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Plus, go to this URL and read more...
http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=8029

Good luck!

//biz

 

[Guest]

I've been getting same error too, I think since installing Office XP-Pro a couple of days ago on a Sony Laptop (just ran Word 2K previous to the office XP install).

Biz4two's suggestion of looking for servudaemon.ini did not turn up the ini. In fact, the annoying message pops up regardless of whether the computer is connected to the network/internet or not. I've been able to get rid of the problem by renaming the file from WinMgmt.exe to WinMgmt.ex which seems to effectively disable it. Do a search to find all incidences of the file...the one to change is in the winnt/system32/wbem directory. I'm not sure what this file does and what won't work now that it has been disabled, but at least I don't get the popup message all the time.