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[Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On Dec 16, 2008, at 1:43 PM, <cmccarthy1 AT nc.rr.com> <cmccarthy1 AT nc.rr.com 
> wrote:

> I'd never (never) had a virus on any of  my home machines until last  
> week, now I think that I may have a few.
>
> winlogon.exe can be the true Windows executable, or it can be a  
> virus.  Have any of you XP users downloaded SP3?  If so, did you see  
> a DOS window after the installation and reboot that was up and down  
> pretty quickly that had winlongon.exe in it?  I think that I might  
> have seen this because the virus/malware was replacing the real  
> winlogon.exe with the viral winlogon.exe..

With Windows its not unheard of to reinstall the OS and all the apps  
once a year.  If you have had this machine for a while it may be time  
to just punt and reinstall.

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Michael Czeiszperger
Chapel Hill, NC

"He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life." - H. Simpson
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