Hi all, Got a bit of a strange occurance going on at the moment. Every so often command prompt opens on screen and goes away again after a split second. It's too fast to see what its doing open. I've done scans with AVG, MalwareBytes and HiJackThis. AVG and MBAM both come back clean and the HiJackThis log is attached. I figure if it isn't malware of some sort then its got to be a program getting in a knot but i'd like to know more. Is there a way i can either force command prompt to remain open when a program runs it or log what commands/processing is being done in cmd when it opens like that. EDIT: Think i may have tracked it down, i've corrolated the times i've noticed it happening with Windows Application Event Viewer and just before every one of them i have the following error: Code: Application 'C:\Users\Iain\AppData\Local\Akamai\netsession_win.exe' (pid 1508) cannot be restarted - Application SID does not match Conductor SID It then tries to re-install it several times and these install failures correspond to the command prompt openings. Code: Product: Akamai NetSession Interface -- Installation failed. Does anyone know of a solution?
Simple, you have a stupid service is a startup/background problem that runs. By default when you program, you make a command line interface program, to hide the command prompt window, or interface, it requires additional codes (Fancier it is, the more code is needed). That code was not implemented. Hiding is a minimum... which suggest that the programmer was very lazy (or badly paid), or not knowledgeable at all. OR A background process executes a batch file (*.bat), which does that by default. Usually you don't do a program to execute a batch file, you just code it directly... In any case, it's a program. Use CCleaner, and delete your unneeded startup program, like: -> Any speed launcher -> updater -> Adobe crap (all of it) -> and so on... Just keep A/V, mouse/keyboard stuff (if any), Then, open services panel, and see for any non-Windows services, and disable them To help you, here is a list of services from this article: http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=215380
You can find more information about the program causing the issues here: http://www.akamai.com/html/misc/akamai_client/netsession_interface_faq.html You might just want to uninstall it, if you don't know what it is then chances are you're not using it...? Maybe read that info and see if it is something you use unwittingly. Hope this helps.
I uninstalled it last night after finding their site in a google search, as far as i could tell it must have been installed with software i no longer had, i missed it first time looking through the logs. Cheers
Did that fix your problem? If not, I would try killing different processes and seeing if you can isolate one causing the issue.
Yeah uninstalling it worked. There didn't seem to be any programs relying on it so i assume it just got left behind at some point and maybe corrupted. I really just wanted a second opinion on whether to uninstall it or not.
