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cremaster
2008-04-23, 07:58
I have some very strange stuff happening on my computer.

I hope someone has seen this or knows what is happening or even if it is normal which I do not think it is.

Using Spybot Tools section in the process list I get this in the area it shows the path for two items as

\??\C:\WINDOWs\System32 for the processes csrss.exe and winlogon.exe

It also shows the path \systemroot\system32 (in bold) for a process called smss.exe

If anyone can let me know what I am seeing I would appreciate it.

Of course I have run spy and virus scans.

Yodama
2008-04-23, 09:03
hello,

the items shown are normal. Entries are shown bold if you select a child process.

cremaster
2008-04-23, 13:37
Thank you Yodama for the quick reply. Right after I posted I figured out that the bold was a parent child thing.

I would have never figured that SBSD would report \??\C:\...... and you not have a problem. I thank you for sharing your experience! Do you know if that is just a error in reporting or if those processes really do load somewhere below C:\.