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Program Compatibility Assistant - flash.ocx
Posted: 02 Nov 2012 13:12
by Zigo
This dialog just popped up out of nowhere, which I've never seen before.
I always have a number of XYplorer windows open, I don't think I just closed any prior to the dialog appearing.
I just clicked 'This program worked correctly' and carried on. I'm on 11.60.0100
Re: Program Compatibility Assistant - flash.ocx
Posted: 02 Nov 2012 13:52
by admin
flash.ocx???
Never heard of this and it's certainly not required in XY.
Which Win version?
Re: Program Compatibility Assistant - flash.ocx
Posted: 02 Nov 2012 14:16
by Zigo
Yeah I thought it was a bit weird!
Windows 7 SP1
Re: Program Compatibility Assistant - flash.ocx
Posted: 02 Nov 2012 14:46
by kodyman
May not be related, hopefully not, but be careful.
A similar type of pop-up happened with me yesterday. All of the sudden I had all sorts of craziness going on. Ended up with one of the win32 virus variants.
Reading up on on the bleepingcomputer site they can disguise themselves different ways. Image and video links being one.
Needless to say, I'm having unexpected 'fun' today.
Re: Program Compatibility Assistant - flash.ocx
Posted: 02 Nov 2012 14:54
by Zigo
Thanks for that info.
I don't think this was a virus though, it seemed like a genuine Windows popup which was confirmed to be from the 'taskhost.exe' process (found using the 'Find Window' feature of Process Hacker)