What is mwsvm?

[Tommy]

This is a process that I saw in task manager that uses
13,500K of memory and I found it in my WINNT folder, it
says it was just created yesterday, so i don't really
think its anything important that I need to keep, but just
wanted to make sure.

 

[Jeremy Winston]

This is a process that I saw in task manager that uses
13,500K of memory and I found it in my WINNT folder, it
says it was just created yesterday, so i don't really
think its anything important that I need to keep, but just
wanted to make sure.

It's browser redirector adware: http://www.google.com/search?q=mwsvm

http://www.kephyr.com/filedb/index.php?viewtopic=Mwsvm

-Jeremy

 

[Tim Newton [MSFT]]

MWSVM.exe seems to be some sort of adware or parasite program. I would
recommend downloading and running something like Lavasoft's Adaware or
Spybot Search and Destroy. In the mean time, you might want to kill that
process using Task Manager.

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[Matthew Johnson]

mwsvm is a spyware program associated with SeekSeek, a
browser hijacker.

You can find out how to remove this here:
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/seekseek/index
..phtml

Best Regards,

Matthew Johnson, MCP, A+, Network+