Help: Start-up CMD.EXE

[egghead]

cmd.exe is an ms-dos command prompt

it should not open by default

something is very wrong with your system

virus?
possible

goto

http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

do the free online virus scan

its well worth it

get trojan remover

its fully functional free for 30 days

http://www.simplysup.com/tremover/details.html

scan your system for trojans

Do you have a logon script running?
If not be careful. Someone may have planted something in your computer to run at logon. Check your startup folder and the following keys in the registry.

HKLU/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run and runservices

HKCU/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run

Make sure you don't have anything running that you don't know what it is.

to check your startup folder

click start
run
type .
this will take you to your folder
goto start menu/programs/startup

delete anything you think should not be there

i have nothing in mine
this is the place windows looks when you boot into xp

any shortcut here will auto start

i have office and other programs but i still delete these shortcuts because i dont want things running in the background

all my programs still start when i click on them

also run msconfig
i disable everything in the startup except my antivirus and firewall

you can experament with what you want to start up


please post your results and welcome to techzonez

cheers
egghead


you may have the nimda virus
it scans cmd.exe

interesting read here
http://www.gfi.com/news/press.asp?re...aworm&lcode=en