Is wuauclt.exe a virus or trojan?
 

Hello,

I have an XP Pro SP1 system and yesterday I noticed the appearance of
the update windows icon in the task bar (bottom right). This is weird
because I have used Windows for 2 years and this icon never appeared.

I noticed there are 2 wuauclt.exe programs running in the Task Manager.
If I delete them, they come back automatically. Also when I
double-click the Update icon, the Update window does not look familiar
to me (could be a copy of the real window). If I click Cancel in this
window, it is minimized but stay in the tray...

What do you think? I check my PC with Kaspersky updated and it detects
nothing...

Thank you for your help

Chris

Re: Is wuauclt.exe a virus or trojan?
 

"Chris" <teddymaflu_nospam@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:41232876$0$20676$626a14ce@news.free.fr...
> Hello,
>
> I have an XP Pro SP1 system and yesterday I noticed the appearance of
> the update windows icon in the task bar (bottom right). This is weird
> because I have used Windows for 2 years and this icon never appeared.
>
> I noticed there are 2 wuauclt.exe programs running in the Task Manager.
> If I delete them, they come back automatically. Also when I
> double-click the Update icon, the Update window does not look familiar
> to me (could be a copy of the real window). If I click Cancel in this
> window, it is minimized but stay in the tray...
>
> What do you think? I check my PC with Kaspersky updated and it detects
> nothing...
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> Chris

Seems like windows auto update to me.. is it trying to update to SP2
perhaps?

Re: Is wuauclt.exe a virus or trojan?
 

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:59:11 +0200, Chris
<teddymaflu_nospam@fastmail.fm> wrote:

>wuauclt.exe
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http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/pr...auclt.exe.html

Re: Is wuauclt.exe a virus or trojan?
 

Chris wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an XP Pro SP1 system and yesterday I noticed the appearance of
> the update windows icon in the task bar (bottom right). This is weird
> because I have used Windows for 2 years and this icon never appeared.
>
> I noticed there are 2 wuauclt.exe programs running in the Task
> Manager. If I delete them, they come back automatically. Also when I
> double-click the Update icon, the Update window does not look familiar
> to me (could be a copy of the real window). If I click Cancel in this
> window, it is minimized but stay in the tray...
>
> What do you think? I check my PC with Kaspersky updated and it
> detects nothing...
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> Chris

Windows XP Service Pack 2 is being released through Windows Update.
What you are seeing is the auto notification icon that SP2 is available.
SP2 is accessed through Windows Update Version 5 which is the new update
site that you see. You can verify the site for yourself by selecting
Windows Update from the Internet Explorer Tools Menu.

Q