The highlighted item on the Taskmanager Processes tab flashes.

Whitney K. · Mar 6, 2009

I've had a few malware infections recently. I've ran the following antivirus software:

Malware Bytes
Combofix
AVG
Super Anti-Spyware
HiJack This
ATF Cleaner to clean prefetch files

And looking them over (amateur that I am), I would normally think that I had cleared everything up. However, I have this funny thing happening with my task manager, on the Processes tab. If I highlight something on that tab (anything at all), it flashes. It's flashing at the same Update Speed as Taskmanager itself. In other words, if I change the View/Update speed of taskmanager, the flash on the processes tab also changes to that speed.

But whatever, that's idiosyncratic I suppose. Truthfully, though, nothing on the processes tab should flash once you highlight it, correct?

I guess it should be noted here that nothing is flashing on the taskmanager as long as I don't highlight anything.

But anyways, since I have this peculiar activity happening with my task manager, and since I just recently had a worm/virus/trojan/whatever, I suspect that something may still be amiss in my computer and I would like to clear it up. I'm hoping you guys can help. I can post whatever log files you would like to see. Where should I start?

Thanks for any help,
Whitney K.

chaslang · Mar 8, 2009

Welcome to Major Geeks!

Whitney K. said: ↑

But whatever, that's idiosyncratic I suppose. Truthfully, though, nothing on the processes tab should flash once you highlight it, correct?
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This is normal refresh behavior.

Whitney K. said: ↑

I'm hoping you guys can help. I can post whatever log files you would like to see. Where should I start?
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The highlighted item on the Taskmanager Processes tab flashes.

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