"Missing file needed"

[Aaron McKenna]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.security (More info?)

Hi

On my network or 100 or so windows 2000 Professional clients, when ever a user opens Internet Explorer and goes to any web page...a message saying "File needed..polmx.exe" is displayed. The user can then click on OK and Cancel which seem to do nothing except close the window. Then when they click on another link, it popps up again.

Not sure it this looks like virus activity because i have searched for the suspect file name on various Anti-Virus sites and found nothing.

 

[Dave]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.security (More info?)

try google. polmx.exe only comes up a couple times, but seems to be blaimed
on a trojan Trj/Downloader.GK

perhaps your antivirus got rid of it, but there is still a registry entry
that makes ie want to load it?

"Aaron" <Aaron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2F90278F-C397-442C-BA83-1FB92DB54DE5@microsoft.com...
> Hi
>
> On my network or 100 or so windows 2000 Professional clients, when ever a
user opens Internet Explorer and goes to any web page...a message saying
"File needed..polmx.exe" is displayed. The user can then click on OK and
Cancel which seem to do nothing except close the window. Then when they
click on another link, it popps up again.
>
> Not sure it this looks like virus activity because i have searched for the
suspect file name on various Anti-Virus sites and found nothing.