Suspect Windows Services

raleighsfinest

Hello peoples. Hope you are all doing well and had a great Labor Day weekend.

While snooping around my pc this morning I noticed two Windows services I am unfamiliar with. Both are visible using msconfig. They are named FIKGCX and VHYN. The Mfg's for both are listed as unknown, and both are currently listed as stopped. I have google'd both items and found absolutely nothing. I don't necessarily think they are something malicious, I just like to stay on top of everything running on my box. If anyone knows anything about these services, please share. Thanks to all.

j

Zuntar

J, are you sure you have those two services listed exactly as you see them?

I ask cuz I can't find ANYTHING on either of them.

Chris "Zuntar"

raleighsfinest

That's exactly as it's listed in msconfig. I have several other apps that list start-up items and none of them show FIKGCX or VHYN. Like I said, both were listed as stopped. I went ahead and disabled them also. However, I thought it very strange that I could find absolutely nothing at all about either on Google.

Anyways Chris, hope you had a great vacation.:smiles:


j

raleighsfinest

raleighsfinest wrote:

That's exactly as it's listed in msconfig. I have several other apps that list start-up items and none of them show FIKGCX or VHYN.


j

When I said "start-up items" in the above post I actually meant services.


j

raleighsfinest

I think I may have figured it out. As I said before, I disabled the services using msconfig. Well, they must be part of Window Blinds because after I rebooted, my taskbar had returned to the original windoze style. I was also unable to change it using the Window Blinds control panel. I enabled the two services in question, rebooted and voila! my taskbar was back to normal.

Zuntar

Sweet!!