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by kdurichek 1 view

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When setting up windows XP machine's we (randomly) have net.exe running in the background. Whether straight from Dell with XP loaded or after a format and reload. When it is running adobe reader and enzip (similar to winzip) will not load. Setup.exewill stay in processes but just sits there. The minute we kill net.exe setup will continue and work fine. After reboot adobe(works randomly from machine to machine) and enzip will not work until net.exe process is killed again. Other than writing a script to kill it on boot up any body have any ideas?

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by kdurichek

Also forgot. Easy CD creator 5.3.2.34 will not work either if net.exe is running in background.

by sgt_shultz

net.exe is DOS version of MS Networking. you don't need it. i am curious as to why it is running. maybe hold over from testing at factory? did you reinstall any network drivers? find it and disable it...look in autoexec.bat. look in RUN stuff in registry. look in win.ini, services. use Start/Run/msconfig to see all those places at once. how is your anti-virus protection?

by sgt_shultz

i think you have a virus, my friend. i would visit www.symantec.com, go to the Security Response page, scroll down to the Virus Encyclopedia and Search for net.exe. I got four hits. I would 'clean out' my system according to the instructions in all four then I would get the latest virus definitions and do full system scan in Safe Mode on *all* computers. they are probably getting infected across the network.

by kdurichek

It is only on XP machines. Running 8.0 Norton and my partner and I have been working on this for months. If you delete dll OR log in as enterprise admin and load software you don't have any problems. Also deleting dll does not affect anything at all.

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