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  1. Dec 5th, 2005, 07:35 PM #1
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    about spoolsv.exe

    When I started up today, pc was really slow. and I have not much processes running in the background.

    I checked taskbar and there it goes, memory was eaten up by spoolsv.exe process... what is this one for? Right now I killed it... is it caused by any virus? or spyware? :'(
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  2. Dec 5th, 2005, 08:46 PM #2
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    Re: about spoolsv.exe

    http://www.liutilities.com/products/...brary/spoolsv/

    Read the 2nd paragraph.
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  3. Dec 6th, 2005, 12:19 AM #3
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    Re: about spoolsv.exe

    I can't find any in the registry anymore.

    perhaps spybot removed it.
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    Re: about spoolsv.exe

    spoolsv.exe is the windows printer spooler - it is in charge of maintaining the job queues for each printer and doing the program<->printer communication.
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    Re: about spoolsv.exe

    yeah but I am not printing anything. nor do I have a printer.
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    Re: about spoolsv.exe

    If you don't have a fax/printer, then you could prolly get away with stopping the printer service.
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    Re: about spoolsv.exe

    Just a few days ago I had a spyware that run a service spoolsvs.exe (or similar, very similar name).
    I tried System Mechanic and it (most probably)removed it. I guess the trial version will work.

    Same time I was attacked by a keylogger too. SysMech couldn't delete it, so I had to delete it from 'true DOS mode' (my filesystem is FAT32).

    So I'm not 100% sure that it was SystemMechanic who cured my system. May be the keylogger and the spoolsvs.exe was part of same paracite ?
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