wupdater.exe

[Tony]

I am running XP Home on my PC & ocassionaly I get a
window the pops up when shutting down my PC, indicating
that wupdater.exe has not completed it's task. I hit the
end program buttom & the PC closes. All appears fine.

I searched my PC & found this file (wupdater.exe) in the
windows/prefetch directory. Any thoughts on what this
file does & where it came from? I searched my laptop &
it is not listed in my laptop running XP Pro.

 

[the guy]

I am running XP Home on my PC & ocassionaly I get a
window the pops up when shutting down my PC, indicating
that wupdater.exe has not completed it's task. I hit the
end program buttom & the PC closes. All appears fine.

I searched my PC & found this file (wupdater.exe) in the
windows/prefetch directory. Any thoughts on what this
file does & where it came from? I searched my laptop &
it is not listed in my laptop running XP Pro.

it is adware. find it all its parts and get rid of it.

 

[Guest]

download and install
adaware
spybot
hijack this
to search for and remove spyware on your system.

 

[Robert Tuck]

The file you mentioned is adware. Try downloading and running Ad-Aware 6.0
(www.lavasoftusa.com) to rid your machine of adware and spyware. Spybot is
a good program too, but it is more complex and shows many things that do not
need to be removed.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I searched my PC & found this file (wupdater.exe) in the
windows/prefetch directory. Any thoughts on what this
file does & where it came from? I searched my laptop &
it is not listed in my laptop running XP Pro.

Entries in prefetch should be only a record of the pattern of disk
accesses needed to load a program - used in windows optimisation of file
layout on disk. Wupdater is not part of windows - it may be used by
some program to get updates of itself or its data (eg an AV program).
So look more widely - certainly in Program Files. Or it may be a piece
of malware trying to look innocent. If the one in prefetch is simply
wupdater.exe and not say wupdater.exe-1234SB.pf then that is probably
what it is. Start by renaming it; then start - Run - MSconfig and look
on the Startup page for any line loading it (the Command column). If
you find one, uncheck it.

 

[Please reply to newsgroup.]

Tony wrote:




Entries in prefetch should be only a record of the pattern of disk
accesses needed to load a program - used in windows optimisation of file
layout on disk. Wupdater is not part of windows - it may be used by
some program to get updates of itself or its data (eg an AV program).
So look more widely - certainly in Program Files. Or it may be a piece
of malware trying to look innocent. If the one in prefetch is simply
wupdater.exe and not say wupdater.exe-1234SB.pf then that is probably
what it is. Start by renaming it; then start - Run - MSconfig and look
on the Startup page for any line loading it (the Command column). If
you find one, uncheck it.

It is malware trying to look innocent. Get Spybot S&D or AdAware.