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WUAUCLT.EXE??? friend or foe??

Feb 4, 2004 6:29AM PST

When I bring up windows task manager I find this line after about 1 min. A google search left me undecided if friend or foe----I>E> Trojan!D!! What is it?

Dell desktop 2400 xp home---512 ram--80gb hard drive--2.4g cpu--IE explorer 6.0---

Thanks
FRED

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Re:WUAUCLT.EXE??? friend or foe?? or is it real or the trojan?
Feb 4, 2004 8:32AM PST
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Re:Re:WUAUCLT.EXE??? friend or foe?? or is it real or the trojan?
Feb 4, 2004 12:49PM PST

Thank you Robert-I had read that when I searched google and I also read this one---wuauclt.exe on an XP system - Common Program Settings - Zone Labs ...
... Zone Labs User Forum : Common Program Settings : wuauclt.exe on an XP system. ... wuauclt.exe
on an XP system-----which made me wonder which it was...
thanks
FRED