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General Category => Tech Clinic => Topic started by: Hindes57 on March 14, 2005, 06:17:03 PM

Title: windows timer.hta
Post by: Hindes57 on March 14, 2005, 06:17:03 PM

Can someone tell me what the script / file named "windows timer.hta" does?

Title: windows timer.hta
Post by: guestolo on March 15, 2005, 01:19:27 AM

Did you install it?
I think it's a bad guy
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Title: windows timer.hta
Post by: hindes57 on March 15, 2005, 07:26:33 AM

It wasn't on my PC it was on a friend's He's ran Windows Antispy, Adaware and Norton AV and AVG and it now seems to have cleared it. This is the 1st warning that Norton AV gave:-

Object   FileSystem Object
Activity  GetSpecialFolder
File       C:\Documents and Settings\All     Users\StartMenu\Programs\StartUp\Windows Timer.hta

Even tho it seems to have gone, he would still like to know where it came from.

Cheers