program OSA9.EXE

[paul galloway]

when i close windows down i keep getting o box up with
the following message in:

End Program - OSA9.EXE
If you choose toend the program immeadiatley you will
lose any unsaved data

can any one help with this
many thanks
paul

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Paul

Please see if the following helps. If not you could try posting to one of
the MS Office News Groups:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=OSA9.EXE&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search

 

[Richard Urban]

Something strange here!

If you install Microsoft Office (and maybe Microsoft Works - don't know), a
startup entry is created for osa.exe. The name of this file has been the
same, for me, with Office 2000 - Office XP and Office 2003.

NOTE: the absence of the digit 9 (nine).

You may have some type of spywear, or other nasty, on your computer which
emulates the file in trying to avoid notice and detection.

Run a current Antivirus program (not a 2-3 year old version) with the very
latest signature updates. Then run Ad-Aware and Spybot Search and Destroy.
Update the signatures for each of these before you run them.

Ad-Aware is here: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

SpyBot Search and Destroy is here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

Good luck!

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Richard Urban]

Oops! Correction!

Osa9.exe WAS the file name for Office 2000.

Sorry for that!

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard