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by garly.au

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i have a recurring problem with this error message window continually appearing every 15 mins or so. i cannot determine what it is referring to or exactly what is running. Any one have any clues?? thanks

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by aprager

How do you get rid of this annoying message that pops every 15 minutes or so?????

Thanks in advance!

by maccabee_revolt

I got this problem yesterday when I accidently clicked on an advertisement, only I was getting 4-6 at a time. Not only that, my IE home page was changed and I had a bunch of new links in my favorites (many of which I would never go to) I tried ad-aware and found nothing but a few cookies. Spy Assassin found some things but after removing them and rebooting, they returned. I set out to do a little sleuthing. I opened a run window and entered MSCONFIG. I clicked on the START UP tab and found some new programs there that I had no clue what they were for. They were "MS64.EXE", "MSS-OR32PE.EXE", and "SYPE64MS.EXE" they were all 2,906 bytes in size and were all dated with yesterday's date and time. I Deselected them and rebooted. Seems my problems have disappeared. Also, when I opened the system task list (CTRL-ALT-DEL) and clicked on PROCESSES, there were several (it varied between 5 and 15 when I checked it.) programs 27K in size and 60K in size. These files were a combination of letters and numbers (IE - H7PYY4E9.EXE and similar such names) and were found in the \DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\(CURRENTUSER)\LOCAL SETTINGS\TEMP directory. When deleted, they reappeared within a few minutes. Not sure what this was, but Norton, AD AWARE and SPY ASSASSIN was unable to do anything for it. If this doesn't help you, maybe it will help someone else.

-K

by jonathane_122

I have noticed that this window seems to be popping up due to a file avpx.exe (located in My Computer/ C Drive). I end the program and delete it, however in a short amount of time it is back. Also, I've noticed that in my 'Connections', a new modem connection suddenly appears after the "already running" window comes.
Every time I delete it, it still comes back. When I delete the program and connect on the internet, in a short time the internet disconnects and the avpx.exe program is back.
I will greatly appreciate it if anyone could tell me how to fix this problem!

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