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Mysterious notepad.exe spawned every morning

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Mar 15, 20261962 views
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Since a couple of weeks, when I sit down in the morning and unlock my PC at work, I see a notepad window, complaining that it "Cannot find c:\oracle.message.txt". This is quite unnerving - I thought I had some malware infection, but neither Microsoft Security Essentials nor AVG found anything. Proc…

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Fix for: Mysterious notepad.exe spawned every morning

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The Task Scheduler service lives inside svchost.exe - are you sure you haven't got a strange scheduled task set up?

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