DrWatson Postmortem Debugger

precipice SG

knn, i kana this virus.

Mad Mad Mad Mad

xiaosotong SG

is virus meh ?

http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/drwtsn32.exe.html

precipice SG

is it a virus?

i googled and many sites said so.

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Please give a HijackThis log…

ceecookie SG

its not a virus..its a window debugger...

but strangely..when i got a notice in a middle of a slowdown(of the processor) saying that this process is not functioning,the whole computer grinded to a halt and hve to restart.

xiaosotong SG

i oso tio b4 leh

ceecookie SG

maybe it died when it tried to gather info abt the non-functioning application Laughing

its part of Windows..so do not terminate..

xiaosotong SG

Laughing

ndmmxiaomayi SG

It may be. It has been just reported in antivirus forums that Dr Watson may be infected.

Such forums are hidden anyway, you won't get to see them till you join them.

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Dr Watson is supposed to activate when programs crashed, not crashed when programs crashed.

ceecookie SG

yes mine should have activated when my some of my programs crashed...BUT i only known about the process when apparently an Windows error said that the debugger itself encountered a problem a moment after the program crash and need to close. Laughing

xiaosotong SG

wht is it DRwatson Rolling Eyes

ndmmxiaomayi SG

This happens sometimes when the computer is being forced to shut down and restart when programs aren't fully loaded. It creates errors and you will get this error message.

It can also be caused by viruses... and the latest virus shows a lot of Dr Watson processes running, which produces lots of error messages.

You may have noticed files with a .t extension, provided you have unhide Windows files. This is the latest infection.

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Dr Watson is a program in Windows that will send error reports to Microsoft when a serious error occurred. An example is blue screen of death, although it may not be necessary so.

If you have the necessary tools, you can debug the error yourself. Those texts are barely readable.

precipice SG

do i have to do anything or just let it be?

xiaosotong SG

jus let it be ba

BearBear® SG

There is a virus called Dr.Watson and can spread through intranets, the Internet, or other e-mail. This virus installs itself as a memory-resident program but however does not contain a destructive payload. It is incapable of infecting floppy disk or hard drive boot records. It does not try to actively conceal itself. This virus infects files in a manner that makes disinfection impossible.

ndmmxiaomayi SG

As said, post a HijackThis log first...

Read the sticky.