Scan32.Exe

Paranitis · Post by **Paranitis** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 3:04 pm

What the hell is this file? For the past few months I have fought with this stupid thing. I will be doing my normal think on the computer..such as looking at message boards, or chatting it up on a messenger service, or something like that and then all of a sudden I notice the little orange light on my computer is turning on and off and I hear a grinding sound (meaning something heavy is working)..and then all of a sudden everything I do takes like 10x+ longer than normal. I do CTRL+ALT+DEL and I see "Scan32.Exe" taking every piece of available power out of my computer. So I close the stupid file and everything works perfectly again. 20 minutes later same stuff happens, I CAD it and Scan32.Exe is back up and running again draining the computer.

My scanner is off and unplugged, my virus scanner is turned off, and all kinds of other stuff is turned off and this stupid ass program keeps showing up draining the computer.

I know it is not a virus or anything..I searched online for it..I did a virus scan..I ran adaware/spybot and didn't come up with anything.

Just out of nowhere this freaking program shows up and starts killing my computer speed (which isn't all that great already [p2 1ghz]). I don't want to just delete the program and I am doing fine with just shutting down the program whenever it pops up..I just want to know what keep making it pop up like it does and if there is a way to tell it to stop.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:32 pm

My immidiate advice would be to simply do a search for the filename and take a look at the hits if something matches.
It could be connected to your antivirus - I belive McAfee uses Scan32.exe.... but I don't know why it hogs your ressources.

But try searching for the filename.

Taco Magus · Post by **Taco Magus** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:38 am

It is connect to several virus scanners. I dont know why its hogging resources, Search and Destroy does the same thing to my computer.

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:59 am

It sounds like a driver for a scanner...
This site seems to support my guess.

Edit: Also what happens when you do a search for it on your computer? If it's path is something like c:/program files/scanner drivers/scan32.exe you can be pretty sure it's your scanner. If you don't scan a lot of stuff, you can probably try to remove anything associated with it thru add/remove programs in the control panel.

Paranitis · Post by **Paranitis** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 8:48 pm

C:\Program Files\Network Associates\VirusScan

I ALWAYS have my stupid virus scanner turned off unless I WANT to scan something, but suddenly out of nowhere this specific program turns on and drains the resources and I have to close the thing through CtrlAltDelete.