Help - strange things on my PC

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    alanbeeb Grumpy young fogey

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    got a wierd thing happening.... every few mins an MS-DOS prompt appears on my desktop (I'm still running win 98) entitled DUCINS~1 and then disappears.

    I can't find any programs with this or a similar name on my machine or any reference to this on the web. I've run Norton AV with latest updates and Ad-Aware SE latest update and they are not picking anything up.

    Any ideas what this is? Its only started happening today and its scaring me!
     
    alanbeeb, Feb 25, 2005
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    ditton happy old soul

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    Hi, I've a PC laptop running win 98 at work. I'll search for DUCINS.
     
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    being DUCINS~1 it would mean that DUCINS is only the first part of the fil name to do a search for DUCINS*.*
     
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    alanbeeb Grumpy young fogey

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    tried that... nothing found. also searched registry for it, again nothing.
    If this was a virus I'd expect to find some info on this on the web but all you get searching on it is bio-chemistry stuff.
     
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