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xp end task: should not see me

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The other day, while shutting down a pc after I installed some software, I was surprised to see the end task window.

Occasionally, everyone will get some windows tasks that are slow to shutdown (norton internet security comes to mind).

This time the name of the task was: Should Not See Me

Having never seen a task with such a strange name, I immediately started to think: infection

Well, after some digging around, it turns out to be nothing dangerous, but it is a very rare event, often triggered by a software installation.

Sure enough, another PC restart later, and there was no evidence of this task (and I did a full virus and antispyware, just to be sure)

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xp end task: should not see me — 4 Comments

  1. Haha, I’ve seen that a few times now in my travels. The first time I saw it I formatted my computer and started to panic (years and years ago.. 2003ish)

  2. I saw that a few times and just yesterday we got in a new HD for a system at work. We saw that right after we formatted and freshly installed W2K and the video drivers. So it’s probably nothing infectious, although I did see it a few times randomly in XP.

  3. Google says ‘It’s normal. If it was infectious, the programmer would have named it ‘Installer cleanup process’ or something innocent’ Makes sense!

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