Ran across this yesterday on an XP Home machine.
Original complaint was machine had gotten so slow in the last month it was unusable, also just got a new “previous fan failure! press f1 to continue or f2 to enter setup” during bios boot up. Fan is and was operating.
This is on a Dell Dimension 8200 with a 2.53 P4 & 512mb Ram.
The problem seems to stem from a program folder in windows\system32\prefetch tree that has a hidden program folder named “rxvvsptv” containing 2 20kb executables “wvovwwxu.exe” and “uxwwvovw.exe” and an unnamed .dll .
Both replicate themselves as operating processes using all available cpu and memory on startup.
Was able to trackdown over 6500 occurances of “wvovwwxu.exe-15719cfb.pf” and 5000 occurances of “uxwwvovw.exe” in the registry.
Did a reinstall reappeared after 3 boots, have now done a low level format and clean install, It’s back after about 10-12 boot cycles.
I am now doing a low level format after overwriting the drive with 0 data.
Original complaint was machine had gotten so slow in the last month also just got a new “previous fan failure! press f1 to continue or f2 to enter setup” Fan is and was operating.
Any body else hit one like this or is this just a corrupt program?