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net.exe & cmd.exe nightmare

Asked by cidlockie in Windows XP Operating System

Tags: instances, multiple

I have in the past couple of days installed XP Pro on my Compaq Deskpro for the first time. It worked fine for the first day or so, but then, disaster.

On starting up now, the PC waits a few minutes before flooding itself with multiple instances of net.exe and cmd.exe, which appear in the task manager processes and literally eat all of the system resources. Sometimes there gets to be as many as 20 of each in there, but I have no idea where they are coming from or what I can do.

I have tried a virus scan but nothing has worked (online scanners - I don't have Norton). I read somewhere about a troublesome file that could cause it called mwd.exe in the windows/system 32 directory, with a trio of batch files accompanying it, but deleting all four files has made no difference. Equally, reinstalling XP Pro has had no effect.

As I type this I have but four or five of net.exe and cmd.exe in the task manager keeping me company, but at any moment there can be untold more.

Has anyone got any idea what it could be? I don't want to go out and buy Norton Antivirus in case it doesn't help - believe it or not in three years of using the internet on this PC this is the first time a virus has got me, if that is indeed what it is.

Please.......help.......sorry it's only 125 points by the way but believe me it's much more urgent than 'not important and moderately difficult'!!

Thanks,
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