One of my 3 computers was running really slow on the Internet.. painfully slow. I ran Ad-Aware SE, and Grisoft Antivirus and they didn't come up with anything. I knew it couldn't be my new 56K modem, super-advanced ISP or the adequately fast pipelined architecture Intel CPU! It had to be malware.
I ran HIJACKTHIS.exe and looked at what it came up with:
O4-HKLM: \RunServices: [KB891711] C:\windows\system\KB891711\kb891711.exe
Thinking it was malware originated in a former Soviet Republic by a kiddie-porn producing Russian Mafioso, I got rid of it! Just like that, the Internet is back up to full speed. Was that good enuf for curious Charlie? No, I had to know where this garbage came from. A Google search soon revealed plenty of forums. The source of this malware was Microsoft themselves!
I'm not sure, but I suspect that Microsoft would prefer that all computer owners upgrade to Windows XP, since they aren't making money off of old copies of old operating systems. So they screwed up and released a security update that really messes with your computer. Was it by accident or design is the real question. For those of us who are conspiracy theorists, this is a way to make unaware computer users think that their computer is posessed, when in actuality, the computer is quite fast. No need to upgrade, but this software will make them think that they have to.
Nowhere on the IT professional forums or on the Microsoft Support website does it say what kb891711.exe actually does. What does kb891711.exe do?
Pretty sad that Microsoft releases an update for one of their products that wasn't even tested on an OS that it supposedly works on. Pretty sad that Microsoft writes software that can bring a fully capable system to a CRAWL! It begs the question: What on earth is my computer doing? I guess we will never know- the source code is closed up tighter than Fort Knox and Microsoft ain't talking. Time to upgrade to Linux?
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