Are these EXE files virus related?

MYSTERIOUS EXE FILE MESSAGES ON BOOTUP do these look familiar to anyone? Hopefully they are not viral in nature........

Whenever I boot up now, I get a dialog box telling me
"Not enough memory to start WINKDQ0.EXE..please close some programs .......bla bla "
I close the box, and it goes away....computer runs fine. (see other filenames below)

Out of curiosity, I did a find file search and was unable to find it....

This happens every time, but with other filenames too.., equally as elusive to my search efforts......
Do these filenames look familiar to anyone???

RE82A2.EXE
ISE50E5.EXE
NW3221.EXE
BDE2D2.EXE
OBE9342.EXE

Thanks for any and all help........
Dave Kowalski

 

Hi Daveski
It always makes me nervous when people say they "hope" it's not a virus.
How be we eliminate that possibility right off the bat?
Maybe start with one of the free online virus scanners then?

Grisoft
Housecall
Panda
Symantec

And for Trojans.....might I suggest:
Tauscan

Daizy

 

daveski--Perhaps duplicating what you have done, but here are the four things I would try:
1) Run a Find on each .exe file and when you find it on your PC, right click on the file name|click Properties|click Version tab and then click/highlight down the list of items in the Item Name box. Either that or the Desccription line in the same window should give you some idea of the company and/or program that created the .exe file. Before starting this, make sure your PC is set up to "Show all Files" and not to Hide File Extensions (Folder Options|View tab).
2) Run a scan with your antivirus program
3) Do a search on these files in a search engine. (I tried the first two in www.google.com. No hits.)
4) Disable each one of these .exe files one at a time for a few days (for example rename to WINKDQ0.OLD). See if any program does not run. Do you still get the message on boot up?
I do not have these files on my PC.

 

ahhh...so "find" is dependent on whether the file extension is visible? I thought that would just be a cosmetic thing for the user.... I'll try that, since I never got results when doing the search....