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msgreyberry

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What do these mean?
« on: June 02, 2011, 11:28:19 AM »
I see in my task manager some weird things that say that are run by ME.
Eg. igfxsrvc.exe   igfxpers.exe

I don't know these things and I certeinly think I didn't run them.
I think if these things were OK they would be run by system and not by me....if you get what I mean.
I heard igfxpers.exe is some dangerous virus but nothing, absolutley NOTHING is wrong with my computer but I'm suspicous anyway.
I run Windows XP SP3, Avast found nothing. Everything is up t date everything seems working fine, as I said before but the two exe files above are VERY suspicious to me....

Again, I'm no computer expert and it might turn to be safe.
I just wanna double check as I heard somebody else had it too, here.
PLEASE HELP ME!!


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Re: What do these mean?
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2011, 11:41:02 AM »
Both igfxsrvc.exe   igfxpers.exe are common user interface modules in windows, it is also not really neccesary  for them to run at startup so you can go to msconfig/startups and untick the boxes, if you have ccleaner you can also disable startups with that too.

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Re: What do these mean?
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2011, 11:54:41 AM »
Both igfxsrvc.exe   igfxpers.exe are common user interface modules in windows, it is also not really neccesary  for them to run at startup so you can go to msconfig/startups and untick the boxes, if you have ccleaner you can also disable startups with that too.

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Re: What do these mean?
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2011, 11:56:54 AM »
Your welcome  :)

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Re: What do these mean?
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2011, 12:03:49 PM »
These are very often used as hiding place for Kolab malware. Do you have Intel graphics adapter?