Wierd process running - vmimb.exe

[RS]

Hi,

My customers Server is running Windows 2000 and has recently started
'playing up'. I have noticed there is a vmimb.exe process running and is
using 97% of the CPU. It won't allow me to stop it although I am logged in
as Administrator.

Any help would be appreciated - Thanks.

 

[Blare Sutton]

Do a search on the server for that file. If it's in a suspicious location,
delete it. It may not allow you to (in use), so the next step is to do a
search of the registry for the file (no doubt it's either in the run or run
once, or perhaps smart enough to be running as a service), and remove it
from there - disclaimer: only do this IF you identify it as a non valid
process.

Then reboot the machine and delete the physical file.

I might ask the question - what are you doing supporting a customer's win2k
server if you don't know this? I hope you are just helping out because they
are a client for some other reason, not IT support ;-)

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

A check on Google suggests that the file is necessary for
the operation of MS Exchange.

 

[Blare Sutton]

Indeed it is, the POP3 connector. Restart your Exchange processes and see if
that helps.

 

[RS]

Well it's funny you should say that as they have not been collecting email
for a day or so and the POP 3 connector keeps stopping.
I'll stop all the services and then restart them (again) and see if this
helps. Thanks for the help so far though.