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by crosby1

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First off I love this site...

Everytime i turn on my computer a program file opens up, no idea why?? checked start up, thinking about flashing back to a week ago. Any ideas would be great.

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by crosby1

I have a sony vaio pcg k23 about 2 years old. running XP
never had this problem... a file in the d drive called program (not the same as program manager)which has a program called trellix in it. it just started one day and now I cannot get it to stop

by older mycroft

If you use a search engine on the word 'Trellix' you'll get stuff like:

Trellix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trellix was a software company whose various software offerings allowed web users to set up personal websites with the use of online publishing tools. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

It seems you, or some other user, has tried web-design at some point recently and this program is persistently launching each time you power up.

I advise you to download WinPatrol which you can get from:

www.winpatrol.com

Download and install WinPatrol, then when you run it it shows everything that loads at both startup OR as a delayed startup (which some programs seem to favour, so they pop up unexpectedly). Track down the entry for 'Trellix' and either double-click it or right-click it (just personal choice).

You will have an option to stop it, kill it, or delete it on next reboot.

That'll finish the sucker off for good.

Just better make sure no other user is expecting it to still be there.

Good luck.

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