[thelist] Windows ME issue

[Peter Kaulback]

In the wee hour of 03:48 PM 6/11/01 -0700, Michael McGlynn bequeathed such 
tales as these:
>HI,
>Every time i start my TCP connection, there seems to be a lot of traffic
>before i even launch the browser or Outlook. Today there was an application
>failure, and and application called
>
>athomee.exe
>
>failed. It lives in C://WINDOWS/SYSTEM and has no version information. A
>Google seach revealed a log entry, but not much else, and nothing on
>Microsoft's site:
>
>1          0.00%  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Indonesia
>Inte
>1          0.00%  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; MSOCD;
>AtHomeE
>
>Is this a bad thing? Trojan horse?
It's likely a component of an @Home application.  If you ctrl-alt-del when 
you're not connected is it running in the background or does it get loaded 
at start-up?  If it's the latter then go to Start/Run/msconfig and check to 
see if it's included in your startup group, if it is then uncheck it and 
see if you can connect to the internet after you reboot.  If you can't 
connect then you have to enable it again.
Peter Kaulback