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by brian

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CHKADMIN appears multiple times in my task list, but when I opne explorer, and then try to open a new web page, my task bar will dissapear briefly, and ten come back, but the explorer has been shut down ?????

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by jondapicam

End task on all occurances of chkadmin.exe. Clean out your temporary internet files and cookies.

Then do a virus scan. CHKADMIN.EXE is part of a trojan which captures the administrator passwords on a machine. You may also find the other part PING1W.exe.

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