whats up with this?

My PC keeps running dwwin.exe process up the wazoo! in task manager it shows up like 30 times.


Also running at the same time is Lsass.exe and ~e5d141.tmp.

what is the story with this? I've checked and Dwwin is a legal microsoft part of the OS, and the reside in the correct directories (C:/windows/system32).

I'm running XP SP2

Thanks for any help amigos

lsass.exe is also normal. it's part of windows. The ~e5d141.tmp file however, is spyare/malware. End the process, then clear out your temp files. As for dwwin.exe, end all of the instances of it, the run msconfig and find out how many times it is in the list. if it's more tham one, you may have a problem. it looks like dwwin.exe is the error reporting tool in windows, which if it's running more than one instance, you may have a problem that you don't know about. Run full system scans of AV and other tools to try and pinpoint the problem.

Matt