Title: not sure about this post bu anyway you could re-orient me...
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:22 AM
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:22 AM
[Originally posted by cazeault on 2008-07-09 15:33:27-07]
Good afternoon,
I did not installed EXIFTOOL (not volontary sure...)
If I look the apps or services mounted in memory, there is 6 or 8 instances of exiftool.exe (each about 15 megs plus or minus).
If I begin to close one by one, suddenly 2 or 3 closes at the same time.
I am using ZoneAlarm security suite:: if I say "I do not autorize the launch of exiftool.exe", then 15 minutes or so after that there is still 5 ou 6 new instances of exiftool.
If I do a search on my HDD, I find instances of exiftool in a temp dirnamed PAR-user or user-PAR I do not remember.... The I delete all found.
I do a registry search for the text "exiftool" without "" of course. I find 2 or 3 locations that I delete; I reboot
and it starts again....
Any ideas
? I use Vista Home Premium Sp1, 2 megs memory.
Many thanks Henri cazeault@gmail.com
Good afternoon,
I did not installed EXIFTOOL (not volontary sure...)
If I look the apps or services mounted in memory, there is 6 or 8 instances of exiftool.exe (each about 15 megs plus or minus).
If I begin to close one by one, suddenly 2 or 3 closes at the same time.
I am using ZoneAlarm security suite:: if I say "I do not autorize the launch of exiftool.exe", then 15 minutes or so after that there is still 5 ou 6 new instances of exiftool.
If I do a search on my HDD, I find instances of exiftool in a temp dirnamed PAR-user or user-PAR I do not remember.... The I delete all found.
I do a registry search for the text "exiftool" without "" of course. I find 2 or 3 locations that I delete; I reboot
and it starts again....
Any ideas
? I use Vista Home Premium Sp1, 2 megs memory.Many thanks Henri cazeault@gmail.com
Title: Re: not sure about this post bu anyway you could re-orient me...
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:22 AM
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:22 AM
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-07-09 15:49:17-07]
When you run exiftool.exe, it creates the files in the temp PAR-user
directory. But the distributed exiftool.exe is less than 2MB, not 15MB
as you mention. So there is something funny going on here.
I would run a virus scan on your system.
- Phil
When you run exiftool.exe, it creates the files in the temp PAR-user
directory. But the distributed exiftool.exe is less than 2MB, not 15MB
as you mention. So there is something funny going on here.
I would run a virus scan on your system.
- Phil
Title: Re: not sure about this post bu anyway you could re-orient me...
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:22 AM
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:22 AM
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-07-09 15:54:31-07]
Oh, sorry. That's 15MB in memory, not on disk. That
could be right.
But let me get this straight: Exiftool is running but
you don't know how it got launched? Very odd.
Oh, sorry. That's 15MB in memory, not on disk. That
could be right.
But let me get this straight: Exiftool is running but
you don't know how it got launched? Very odd.
Title: Re: not sure about this post bu anyway you could re-orient me...
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:22 AM
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:22 AM
[Originally posted by cazeault on 2008-07-09 16:02:35-07]
yes this is the only thing I did not do (but I will) as I have Zonealarm antivirus + Avast pro co-running live... and more :: I did not install or launch in anyway exiftool as I did not know it ever exists...
I found this forum durin a search in Google for exiftool to know what was said... or if it was identified as a virus or else...
Henri
yes this is the only thing I did not do (but I will) as I have Zonealarm antivirus + Avast pro co-running live... and more :: I did not install or launch in anyway exiftool as I did not know it ever exists...
I found this forum durin a search in Google for exiftool to know what was said... or if it was identified as a virus or else...
Henri
Title: Re: not sure about this post bu anyway you could re-orient me...
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:22 AM
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:22 AM
[Originally posted by cazeault on 2008-07-09 16:06:03-07]
just to add :: there is always 6 to 8 instances of exiftool.exe running at the same time. Half of them are between 8 to 10 megs in memory and the rest is about 712 k +/-.... and yes:: I did not launch exiftool as I did not know it was on my HDD...
henri
just to add :: there is always 6 to 8 instances of exiftool.exe running at the same time. Half of them are between 8 to 10 megs in memory and the rest is about 712 k +/-.... and yes:: I did not launch exiftool as I did not know it was on my HDD...
henri
Title: Re: not sure about this post bu anyway you could re-orient me...
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:22 AM
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:22 AM
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-07-09 16:17:34-07]
Have you installed any utility which uses exiftool? See the
links
section of the exiftool home page for some examples. I suppose
it is possible that one of these is launching multiple copies of exiftool.
I'm not a Windows expert, but isn't there a way to tell what process
spawned the exiftool process (as you can in Unix)? Then you could
tell what was launching the exiftool copies. Otherwise, check all
your startup processes. One of them must be launching exiftool.
Have you installed any utility which uses exiftool? See the
links
section of the exiftool home page for some examples. I suppose
it is possible that one of these is launching multiple copies of exiftool.
I'm not a Windows expert, but isn't there a way to tell what process
spawned the exiftool process (as you can in Unix)? Then you could
tell what was launching the exiftool copies. Otherwise, check all
your startup processes. One of them must be launching exiftool.