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When I boot up win2000 mshta.exe starts executing and takes up 99% of
CPU. What gives?

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> When I boot up win2000 mshta.exe starts executing and takes up 99% of
> CPU. What gives?

Something to do with scripting for HTA applications. Do a search at
http://groups.google.com/ for it.

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On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:39:34 -0500, mvccerase wrote:

>When I boot up win2000 mshta.exe starts executing and takes up 99% of
>CPU. What gives?

http://www.liutilities.com/products/...library/mshta/
http://www.sophos.com/search/index.c...=.hta&x=18&y=5

Scan with a couple of these and make sure you're not infected with anything.
Online scanners:

Courtesy of °Mike°:

:http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hous...start_corp.asp
http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/activescan.asp
http://commandondemand.com/eval/index.cfm
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ [See **]
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
http://www.pcpitstop.com/antivirus/default.asp
http://scan.sygatetech.com/prestealthscan.html

** Caveat:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archiv...3-07/0240.html

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