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Old 11-03-2009, 01:21 AM   #1
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Suspicsious process in taskmanager in win vista

i have a process called DDOS.exe using 20% processor and cranking the network traffic way up.
its discribed as "Microsoft Windows Distributed Denial of Service Service" - now that really makes no sense
 
Old 11-03-2009, 05:16 AM   #2
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google results for ddos.exe
 
Old 11-03-2009, 02:05 PM   #3
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i dont think thats a good thing at all.
 
Old 11-04-2009, 05:30 AM   #4
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i dont think thats a good thing at all.
Indeed, it would appear that your choice of OS has bitten you in the behind
 
Old 11-05-2009, 08:49 PM   #5
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i just logged into linux and did rm -rf /mnt/hda1/ddos.exe
 
  


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