nixad, patchnow & svchost

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01-13-2005

Hi,
Just reformatted 2 computers and nixad and patchnow found their way into
them during the SP1 security updates (they were definitely not there
before). Is there a routine procedure to get rid of them?
Another question: is it safe to allow svchost.exe at startup?
Regards,
Jean

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