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Carol Haynes:
I have now spotted two new unknown services listed GXF.EXE and FRLCT.EXE.

Both point to files which were in the Local Settings\Temp folder (but no
longer exist).

Has anyone any idea what these are? Google etc. and antispyware/AV sites
come up with no info on either.

Any help on this would really be appreciated - I am beginning to get very
worried that something sinster is going on.

I have done a complete antivirus scan and multiple anti malware scans
without showing up anything, and I have done a system search for these 3
files and can't find them anywhere on my system. (I used FileLocator Pro set to search all hard discs/folders etc. and inside .CAB, .ZIP and .RAR files)

My system setup is:

Windows XP SP2 (fully up to date)
NOD32 AntiVirus
Sygate Pro Firewall (yes I know I need to change this as Symantec have
effectively made it abandonware recently - according to Sygate/Symantec it is being supported until the end of November and my last update was fairly recent)

I also constantly run ProcessGuard (which stops unknown programs starting
without permission), WebRoot SpySweeper and MS AntiSpyware

I have also scanned my system with AdAwareSE Pro and SpyBot Search & Destroy
which shoed up no issues.

Am I missing something here? How can services appear and disappear like
this?

mouser:
it does sound like you might have a trojan creating these..

Carol Haynes:
Presumably the only real solution is a complete reinstall ???

Could these be hangovers from application installation where actions are required after a reboot?

mouser:
when you say you discovered "two new unknown services" what exactly do you mean?
do you mean real registered services as in windows services..
or do you just mean programs that were set to run on reboot, which could in fact be what you say, temporary files run as part of an install or uninstall procedure.

mouser:
i wouldnt do a complete reinstall just yet, but
i would if i couldn't track down those files and satisfy myself they are harmless.

maybe try uninstalling and reinstalling the recent apps that required a reboot, and try to find those files again before rebooting.

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