Is this a Virus?

[dlandsv]

Just recently my pc seemed to have slowed to crawl and
it's brand new (AMD2500 Barton with new MB and 512 meg
ram). Windows XP Pro.

When I checked cpu usage(Windows XP Pro) 100 percent was
being used.

But my other two pcs with almost identical
configurations/hardware and sofware rarely showed more
than 10 % with some spikes as I opened programs.

I discovered this file in my startup menu.

00cfwm.exe

As soon as I deleted it, CPU dropped to what it should be.

I have no idea what this file is for or where it came
from other than it has a creation date almost identical
to when I noticed the performance loss.

Problem is, that when I start my pc it tries to run this
exe, so I need to know where the code is that is trying
to fire this exe so I can delete it.

Any help is appreciated.

[NoNoBadDog!]

A recent Windows Update (811493) causes this on may systems. Go to Control
Panel and remove it. It will give you a warning that removing it MAY cause
other programs to not work properly, but you can ignore it and uninstall it
anyway. MS is aware and has issued a tech bulletin about it.

Bobby

"dlandsv" > wrote in message
...
> Just recently my pc seemed to have slowed to crawl and
> it's brand new (AMD2500 Barton with new MB and 512 meg
> ram). Windows XP Pro.
>
> When I checked cpu usage(Windows XP Pro) 100 percent was
> being used.
>
> But my other two pcs with almost identical
> configurations/hardware and sofware rarely showed more
> than 10 % with some spikes as I opened programs.
>
> I discovered this file in my startup menu.
>
> 00cfwm.exe
>
> As soon as I deleted it, CPU dropped to what it should be.
>
> I have no idea what this file is for or where it came
> from other than it has a creation date almost identical
> to when I noticed the performance loss.
>
> Problem is, that when I start my pc it tries to run this
> exe, so I need to know where the code is that is trying
> to fire this exe so I can delete it.
>
> Any help is appreciated.

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

It could be.
Run an updated virus scan.
Or Scan for viruses online:
http://security.symantec.com/ssc/home.asp?j=1&langid=ie&venid=sym&plfid=23&pkj=NEVFIZTYMWPAZTJWUFJ
Run Disk Cleanup checking all boxes except "Compress old files"
Check this link:
http://www.aumha.org/a/noads.php
Run Ad-Aware (free version) or Spybot to check for spyware:
http://www.lavasoft.de/ (Update if you already have it)
Or
http://spybot.eon.net.au/ (Update if you already have it)

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
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"dlandsv" > wrote in message
...
> Just recently my pc seemed to have slowed to crawl and
> it's brand new (AMD2500 Barton with new MB and 512 meg
> ram). Windows XP Pro.
>
> When I checked cpu usage(Windows XP Pro) 100 percent was
> being used.
>
> But my other two pcs with almost identical
> configurations/hardware and sofware rarely showed more
> than 10 % with some spikes as I opened programs.
>
> I discovered this file in my startup menu.
>
> 00cfwm.exe
>
> As soon as I deleted it, CPU dropped to what it should be.
>
> I have no idea what this file is for or where it came
> from other than it has a creation date almost identical
> to when I noticed the performance loss.
>
> Problem is, that when I start my pc it tries to run this
> exe, so I need to know where the code is that is trying
> to fire this exe so I can delete it.
>
> Any help is appreciated.