Re: shutdown error

message from Rick \"Nutcase\" Rogers on 6 Jun 2004
Hi Kristy,

The biggest possibility is that it is part of Downloadware, which has also
been know to cause this error message. Running Ad-aware (www.lavasoft.de
may help if it is not listed in add/remove in the Control Panel. This page
also offers some assistance:

http://cexx.org/cache/mc_remove.html

DW.exe is also the name of an MS utility included with IE6. It is used for
error reporting. See this article about what it is and how to disable the
error reporting.

Description and Availability: Internet Explorer Error Reporting [Q276550]
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q276550

It is also included with OfficeXP.

On another note, it could also be symptomatic of a viral infection. This
link explains why, though it is only a remote possiblity:

http://www.viruslist.com/eng/index.html?tnews=1003&id=48534
 

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