Dazarthas
08-10-2008, 06:25 PM
Okay, so I came back home from a 9-day fishing trip in Ontario, and my computer is acting erratically. Every time I opened up Spybot, the computer would go through the shutdown procedure, so I decided to reinstall it and do a full virus scan (after using RegCure to clean my registry). The problem is gone, and it seemed as if all other problems were gone as well, but here's where things have me completely baffled.
There are six user accounts on this computer, with my brother and myself logged on when I got on this morning. After opening my account, I switched to task manager and logged him off to save RAM, and then got up to check the mail. I come back to the sound of Black Sabbath... at first, I figured it was an Iron Man ad on one of my opened webpages, but after closing it, the music kept going. So I opened Task Manager to find that while there was only my name under the Users tab, another account had opened two processes: wmplayer.exe and dllhost.exe. After killing both processes, I've had no further problems, but I'm still confused as to why this happened, but my guess is that this dllhost program is some sort of malicious trojan virus under an assumed name... though I'm pretty sure a good hacker could come up with a better way to antagonize people than this.
There are six user accounts on this computer, with my brother and myself logged on when I got on this morning. After opening my account, I switched to task manager and logged him off to save RAM, and then got up to check the mail. I come back to the sound of Black Sabbath... at first, I figured it was an Iron Man ad on one of my opened webpages, but after closing it, the music kept going. So I opened Task Manager to find that while there was only my name under the Users tab, another account had opened two processes: wmplayer.exe and dllhost.exe. After killing both processes, I've had no further problems, but I'm still confused as to why this happened, but my guess is that this dllhost program is some sort of malicious trojan virus under an assumed name... though I'm pretty sure a good hacker could come up with a better way to antagonize people than this.