Userinit.exe

Norton Security | Norton Internet Security
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It has happened a couple of times according to the Norton history - it may be something completely innocent - when you try to remove it Norton does say 'this may not be a known internet threat' and then warns about the possible consequences of deleting the file.

I'm just a bit jumpy because a couple of high risk trojans tried to get into my system a couple of weeks ago (KillAV and Backdoor.Paproxy or something like that).

 

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Norton does do System activity logging, even showing clean processes, or installations.

 

 

bye 

 

 

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Hi,

I'm a bit green on these things but thought it best to ask - when i start the pc up, in Norton's history it says userinit.exe has made modifications to the windows startup settings...norton has detected it as has it as a low risk but when i click remove i get a warning that i might damage something if i do.....help!

 

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Thanks for putting my mind at rest

 

 

 

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No Probs

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Hi Griller

 

userinit.exe is a windows file used to manage the startup, was it only this time that it made modifcations??

 The file should be in the "C:\WINDOWS\system"    folder.

 

If you delete the file next time you startup you won't be able to log in.

 

Thanks

 

Quads