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PwrProfiler~32

Discussion in 'Security and Privacy' started by jessierie, 2004/01/04.

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  1. 2004/01/04
    jessierie

    jessierie Inactive Thread Starter

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    I am getting an error that has the header "PwrProfiler~32" and the message is "connection has failed" and whatever online function I am performing at the moment is shut down. I've googled the message, but only found symptoms, not solutions. Does anyone know what this error is caused by and/or how to correct it?
     
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    tel33

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    Stumped me on this one but will try and help anyway :)

    Can you give any more info like when does the message come up, what format is the message in or how it appears on the screen, what are you doing when it happens, how are you connected to the net and what with, modem, router, usb, serial, internal modem etc, what programs are you using when the error comes up?

    Let me know
    Regards
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    jessierie

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    The message comes on as soon as I boot up my machine. I can close the error box, and it will reappear later when I'm surfing general pages or gaming, checking email, etc. The message comes up as a normal windows error in a small gray box in the middle of the screen. I am connected to the net via cable modem on a 4-way router, but the error doesn't come up on any of the other machines. I'm running windows 98 and have gotten all of the updates from the windows updates page.
    If I'm gaming when the error message appears then the game will shut down and the same goes if I'm surfing. What I don't understand is why it would come up when I first boot up and nothing major is running yet.:confused:
    Thanks bunches!
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    How is your virus/spyware check?
     
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    jessierie

    jessierie Inactive Thread Starter

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    I've got the McAfee virus scan and have come up with nothing in the way of viruses. As for spyware, I'm not sure.
     
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    Just to make sure, why don't you run Spybot, Ad-aware, CWShredder, and HijackThis (post a log from HijackThis, back here)
     
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    What is "PwrProfiler~32 "?
     
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    tel33

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    Just wondering if it is anything to do with windows power profile, you can see this in the startup menus, look in System configuration Utility and untick anything to do with power profile.
    Restart the pc and see if it is still happening.
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  10. 2004/01/07
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    You have something starting up right when windows is starting up. The PowerProf entries loading at win98 startup would not be connecting to the internet.
    Go to Start\Run, type in Msconfig and press Enter. Click on the Startup tab. Look and you should see two entries the same.
    The two entries there should look like this.
    Rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme
    Anything else is suspicous.
    Housecall, online AV scan
    Online Trojan Scan
    HijackThis
    SpyBot Search & Destroy
    I am moving this over to Security.
     
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