Blake22 Posted July 24, 2006 CID Share Posted July 24, 2006 Hi everybody. First time posting here and I have a doubt. If you can help please reply. Sometimes i get these processes WinAdCtl.exe and WinAdAlt.exe to run.. after i open the task manager they disappear... I close the task manager and i re-open it again and the suckers are there again, but will disappear again... Any ideas what this is? They are a "SYSTEM" processes You can see the process in a report on this link below (in the Process List section). [snip...spammer] Any help? Thanks and sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted July 24, 2006 CID Share Posted July 24, 2006 from processlibrary.com Description: winadctl.exe is is an advertising program. This process monitors your browsing habits and distributes the data back to the author's servers for analysis. This also prompts advertising popups. This program is a registered security risk and should be removed immediately. Please see additional details regarding this process Recommendation: DISABLE AND REMOVE IMMEDIATELY. This process is most likely an adware or spyware. read more on: http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/winadctl/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted July 24, 2006 CID Share Posted July 24, 2006 this would explain why they would pop up and dissapear every once in a while - its a standard thing when it comes to spyware and stuff like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted July 24, 2006 CID Share Posted July 24, 2006 my recomendation: download: - spybot search and destroy http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10401314.html?tag=lst-0-1 - Ad-Aware SE http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=lst-0-1 - Avast anti virus http://www.download.com/Avast-Home-Edition/3000-2239_4-10533644.html?tag=lst-0-2 These are all free - try and boot your computer into safe mode - which will work most likely by pressing the F8 key while your computer is first starting up - update spyware/virus definitions on all 3 of these, and scan away - it should get rid of the most problems you have You can also try and work with HijackThis (http://www.merijn.org/) which will allow you to manually remove some spyware/adaware entries also.... ewido anti-spyware is one of my new favorites - it does a great job at what the rest leaves off http://www.ewido.net/en/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted July 24, 2006 CID Share Posted July 24, 2006 you also might want to try hijackthis if disturbed route doesnt work.. I think is should but the program might not be removed if it is in memory.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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