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Old 08-05-2007   #8 (permalink)
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Re: wininit

You can go to Mcafee's web site and get it to do a free scan on your
machine. It doesn't actually get rid of anything at this stage, just reports
it. My bet is that you are seeing a normal Windows process.

"Dan Hinsley" <danhi@exmsft.com> wrote in message
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> I've got wininit.exe running on my system, which from looking at some
> websites appears to be a virus (Wolf.16 trojan). But if I kill the
> process, Vista dies. So my question is, is wininit.exe a legitimate
> part of Vista, and if not, what's the safest way to get rid of it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan Hinsley


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