Strange new window popping up on my Thinkpad under XP Pro

My laptop has been acting strange lately. When I boot up, a new window
pops open for about 1/2 second (which I was able to capture thanks to
help from a fellow on a newsgroup) which says:

Setting up personalized settings for:

C;\Windows\Isxoc.exe



Well, I could find no program name Isxoc.exe in that directory.

I did a GOOGLE search on that file name, got nothing in return.


Also, now when I go to close Windows, just before leaving the screen,
I get an error window saying something to the effect:

Wait, shutting down Explorer.exe or hit the END NOW key to shut down
immediately. However, I checked by doing CTL-ALT-DELETE, according
to the list of programs running, Explorer.exe is not running.

Any idea of what can be causing these new gremlins? I did try to
install XP SP3 and it crashed, could that be causing the problems?

Any help appreciated.

Jim

that should read Lsxoc instead of Isxoc, my mistake. I did find the
file in that directory further down under L, but still no luck with
any results from a Google search.

Also, on closing, the window that pops up says:

Ending Program Explorer.exe Please wait
then a little graph under that shows the progress
of closing down Explorer, which is not running as far
as I know... Strange..

Jim





On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:06:00 -0500, Jim <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

>My laptop has been acting strange lately. When I boot up, a new window
>pops open for about 1/2 second (which I was able to capture thanks to
>help from a fellow on a newsgroup) which says:
>
>Setting up personalized settings for:
>
>C;\Windows\Isxoc.exe
>
>
>
>Well, I could find no program name Isxoc.exe in that directory.
>
>I did a GOOGLE search on that file name, got nothing in return.
>
>
>Also, now when I go to close Windows, just before leaving the screen,
>I get an error window saying something to the effect:
>
>Wait, shutting down Explorer.exe or hit the END NOW key to shut down
>immediately. However, I checked by doing CTL-ALT-DELETE, according
>to the list of programs running, Explorer.exe is not running.
>
>Any idea of what can be causing these new gremlins? I did try to
>install XP SP3 and it crashed, could that be causing the problems?
>
>Any help appreciated.
>
>Jim

Jim wrote:

> that should read Lsxoc instead of Isxoc, my mistake. I did find the
> file in that directory further down under L, but still no luck with
> any results from a Google search.
>
> Also, on closing, the window that pops up says:
>
> Ending Program Explorer.exe Please wait
> then a little graph under that shows the progress
> of closing down Explorer, which is not running as far
> as I know... Strange..

>>My laptop has been acting strange lately. When I boot up, a new window
>>pops open for about 1/2 second (which I was able to capture thanks to
>>help from a fellow on a newsgroup) which says:
>>
>>Setting up personalized settings for:
>>
>>C;\Windows\Isxoc.exe
>>

1. Send a copy of Lsxoc.exe to VirusTotal for identification. VirusTotal
will forward the file to numerous antivirus companies and send you back a
report. Come back here with the report.

http://www.virustotal.com/

2. Be sure the computer is clean:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...moving_Malware

Malke
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