Startup Program [TDuPHook.exe safe?]

In an attempt to reduce the time my Toshiba notebook takes to boot up I'm using msconfig to go through the programs that load at startup. I've unchecked a few that I'm happy to start manually when I need them, and I've investigated those that I didn't recognise. One of these is called TDuPHook.exe. A web search of this seems to produce conflicting results. I've seen it referred to as a Trojan that should be removed, and also as a benign program that should be left as it is. Can anyone clarify what it is and advise if I should also stop it loading on startup?

Thanks.

 

Hello alistair,

I've moved your thread to General Security and added to the title to make it more specific.

 

Hello alistair,

Upload the file to jotti http://virusscan.jotti.org/ which uses multiple scanning engines and see what it comes up with.

Until an answer on this - I can't find any definitive answer on what it is, my suggestion is to disable it if you can msconfig is weak in this area.

Stronger startup control prpgrams:

autoruns http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/AutoRuns.mspx

Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel http://www.mlin.net/files/StartupCPL.zip