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Is likely a trojan...if the antispyware doens't clean it, you'll need to run a full antivirus scan.<br />
<a href="http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/trojddosn.html" rel="ugc">http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/trojddosn.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner" rel="ugc">http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner</a>&nbsp; &lt;-- Free online scan via IE which will check for you. THere is also links to a free 30 day trial of Kaspersky if you don't ahve exisitng antivirus.
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Is likely a trojan...if the antispyware doens't clean it, you'll need to run a full antivirus scan.
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/trojddosn.html [http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/trojddosn.html]

http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner [http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner]  <-- Free online scan via IE which will check for you. THere is also links to a free 30 day trial of Kaspersky if you don't ahve exisitng antivirus.

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This removed the offending piece of Malware without any problems when the other Spyware program I was using didn't even find it. &nbsp;Thanks!
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This removed the offending piece of Malware without any problems when the other Spyware program I was using didn't even find it.  Thanks!

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Hi there,<br />
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I have a Windows 2003 SP2 server in a small organisation running as a DC and with Exchange 2003 SP2 installed. &nbsp; I understand that this is not the ideal setup but as the office only has 5 people in it it does the job nicely. &nbsp;<br />
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Recently users have experienced slow response from the server from time to time, and upon investigating this I have noticed a process in Task Manager called DDOS.EXE running that takes up a majority of the CPU utilisation. &nbsp;I can kill the process but it tends to return.<br />
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Can anyone please let me know what this process is, whether it is a virus/spyware, and if so how I go about removing it?<br />
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Thanks!<br />
<br />
Pete
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Hi there,

I have a Windows 2003 SP2 server in a small organisation running as a DC and with Exchange 2003 SP2 installed.   I understand that this is not the ideal setup but as the office only has 5 people in it it does the job nicely.  

Recently users have experienced slow response from the server from time to time, and upon investigating this I have noticed a process in Task Manager called DDOS.EXE running that takes up a majority of the CPU utilisation.  I can kill the process but it tends to return.

Can anyone please let me know what this process is, whether it is a virus/spyware, and if so how I go about removing it?

Thanks!

Pete

DDOS.EXE running on server resulting in excess CPU usage

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).