JJ, thanks for the link. the various antivirus scanners found nothing even
when set to look heuristically for possible viruses... I suspect that this is
one of three things:
1. Backdoor/trojan that is really new...
2. Some kind of odd debuging message left by an untidy programmer...
3. Part of some other program that uses requester.10.exe as it's sender to
look for updates. However I haven't found an association to any program on
the machine.

I'll keep tearing apart the system to figure out what this thing does. For
now I'll keep blocking it until I can put a sniffer on this system. I was
hoping someone out there might have run into this. I suppose I could try to
decompile it and get a clue about what its trying to do.

Thanks,
BF

"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote:

Bill;
It seems obvious that your computer has been compromised.
Have you run an updated virus scan?

Follow the yellow section on this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

If you can not reasonably determine the source and level of corruption as
well as clean it, a Clean Installation may be the best option.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"Bill Fruge" Bill wrote in message
...
I received the message that "requester.10.exe" was being blocked.
"requester.10.exe" and "requester.9.exe" two relatively new files in my
"Windows\System32" directory. Anyone have any idea what these programs
are? I
suspect its either a backdoor/trojan or whomever the anonymous
programmer(s)
left some unusual text in "requester.10.exe". In "requester.10.exe" at
line
D0 there is this word "4D 55 48 41 48 41 48 41 48 41 48 41" or
"MUHAHAHAHAHA". Ideas anyone?