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inet.exe question

Hello everyone,

The service inet.exe is eating up all the resources in my Exchange server. I need to install a spyware program but of course, even the installation is taking a long time. I need an expert opinion... could I attempt to kill this process to speed up the installation and sweeping of my system?

Any suggestion?

Nelson

Sam Panwar

Hi,

What is inet.exe see
http://www.auditmypc.com/process/inet.asp

Go to run > msconfig

Now here you can see start up and service tab

Search this exe in both tab and uncheck or disable it and save setting.

inet.exe removal

http://www.2-spyware.com/file-inet-exe.html
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.alcarys@mm.html

Aguillon1949

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I apologize; the item is actually called inetinfo.exe.
Does the previous reply still apply?

Nelson

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Quick feedback:

The culprit is SMTP; when I start this service, the inetinfo.exe starts grabbing all of the cpu resources. The email services came to a halt.

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Sam Panwar

if your inetinfo.exe is getting close to 100% CPU attention, open IIS Console and check SMTP Virtual Server. Most likely your SMTP is wide open and used for spam relay. All you have to do is add/remove windows components and uncheck the SMTP option, since I can't think of anyone that needs it on their home pc ;)