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Wupdater.exe is spyware, and should be removed by an up-to-date spyware scanner.
What is wupdater.exe?
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Wupdater.exe is spyware. Get yourself an up-to-date spyware scanner and it should remove it, as well as cleaning up related startup problems.
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Article C2134 - July 20, 2004
Leo A. Notenboom has been playing with computers since he
was required to take a programming class in 1976. An 18 year career as a programmer at Microsoft soon followed.
After "retiring" in 2001, Leo started Ask Leo! in 2003 as a place for answers
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When I log on to my aol this message comes up as an error report. What can I do to turn this off or remove it without cleaning out my computer?
Posted by: Jeniffer at August 26, 2004 12:50 PMFollow the instructions at the top of this article's main page.
Posted by: Leo at August 26, 2004 12:55 PMDear Ace,
Posted by: Shaz at November 5, 2004 4:22 PMJust wanted to say how fantastic and easy your steps are, and with your help I got rid of WUPDATER.EXE.
Thanks again
Kool, its about time i got rid of this fkn thing. i kept getting a EndNow error everysingle time i tried to close windows.
thank you so much.
Posted by: Lex at November 17, 2004 12:26 AMi must have installed wup through KeenValue.exe
I've tried it all ...I've looked in the registry, hidden files, folders, etc. Windows task manager and I can't find the dam thing...Blazefind or wupdater.exe or wsaupdater.exe. What next....please???? Again it's not in HKLMachine\software\microsoft\current version\run. I did get rid of it for awhile that way but I did a system restore and the thing came back, maybe under a different address?
Thanks
Posted by: Cris at December 22, 2004 11:48 PM