Hi all,
Win xp pro sp 3, no antivirus software running, windows protector not running (as far as I know), no anti spyware or such software running. Every 2 weeks or so a particular exe I have on my c: drive gets deleted along with it's shortcut. This exe is a vb6 app I wrote that uses a third party shell that has the ability to control web sites (iOpus). I use it for testing websites. I understand that to an antivirus program the exe will look suspicious because of the potential security risk such software represents, but I have no scanning software that I have installed. I assume it is maybe the malicious software remover that ms runs on some updates, but I have seen this run and not delete my exe, it happens every 2 to 4 weeks it seems, somewhat randomly. I can rebuild the exe from source but I would like to know what software is zapping it.
I used a program (windows grep) to scan my entire C: drive for the name of the exe to see if it shows up in some log file somewhere but it does not (as plain text anyway).
what does xp run that would do this? How can I figure out what is deleting my exe?
thx