wish.exe and blindman.exe

[Dave]

Hi folks,
I opened belarc and found these two programs on my
system. I really have no idea what they could be.
Anybody ever heard of these? And what do they do?
Thanks for your help

[Spinner]

Do you have spybot search and destroy installed?
blindman.exe is a part of that program.

wish.exe can also be a l"real" file.

It would help if you could post the exect location of each file,
"c:\program Files\etc."


"Dave" > wrote in message
...
> Hi folks,
> I opened belarc and found these two programs on my
> system. I really have no idea what they could be.
> Anybody ever heard of these? And what do they do?
> Thanks for your help

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

What version of Spybot Search & Destroy? I have Version 1.1
installed, and there is no such file as "blindman.exe" on my hard
drive.

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
----
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH


"Spinner" > wrote in message
news:jl1Ha.3198$%l.985@lakeread03...
> Do you have spybot search and destroy installed?
> blindman.exe is a part of that program.
>
> wish.exe can also be a l"real" file.
>
> It would help if you could post the exect location of each file,
> "c:\program Files\etc."
>
>
> "Dave" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Hi folks,
> > I opened belarc and found these two programs on my
> > system. I really have no idea what they could be.
> > Anybody ever heard of these? And what do they do?
> > Thanks for your help
>
>

[Spinner]

Version 1.2.
This is directly from thier help listing in the program:

"Some of you may have noticed a new file blindman.exe inside the Spybot-S&D
folder, and have asked yourself what it is for.
In short words: it does nothing.
I guess an explanation is needed why a file that does exactly nothing comes
with Spybot-S&D. Spybot-S&D offers a tool to control the System startup in
its Tools section. This includes the ability to disable or enable startup
entries from the Autostart group (found in your Start menu under Programs).
This group contains links to the actual files. Windows stores those links as
files with the extension .lnk. When Windows encounters a *.lnk file in that
folder upon startup, it will start the linked application. Now the easiest
way to disable those entries is to change the extension. The System startup
tool of Spybot-S&D does simply change the extension .lnk to .disabled. This
easily prevents the linked application from being started. But as Windows
doesn't know this extension, this could slow the startup down. So Spybot-S&D
does link that extension to blindman.exe. Windows now tries to run the
..disabled file with blindman.exe and as blindman.exedoes exactly nothing,
there's no slow-down in booting."





"Bruce Chambers" > wrote in message
...
> Greetings --
>
> What version of Spybot Search & Destroy? I have Version 1.1
> installed, and there is no such file as "blindman.exe" on my hard
> drive.
>
> Bruce Chambers
>
> Help us help you:
> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> ----
> You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
> having both at once. -- RAH
>
>
> "Spinner" > wrote in message
> news:jl1Ha.3198$%l.985@lakeread03...
> > Do you have spybot search and destroy installed?
> > blindman.exe is a part of that program.
> >
> > wish.exe can also be a l"real" file.
> >
> > It would help if you could post the exect location of each file,
> > "c:\program Files\etc."
> >
> >
> > "Dave" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > Hi folks,
> > > I opened belarc and found these two programs on my
> > > system. I really have no idea what they could be.
> > > Anybody ever heard of these? And what do they do?
> > > Thanks for your help
> >
> >
>
>