PowerProf.exe ??

[moose119]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone would know what powerprof.exe is?

MSCONFIG shows a reference to a startup process and reg key that does
not look familiar (maybe it was there before but I never noticed it):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
PowerProf = PowerProf.exe

The explorer search function cannot find this .exe file anyplace on my
computer, nor can I find any reference to it at all in the Windows
Help & Support Center. A Google search for "powerprof.exe" only turned
up a bunch of pages with "HijackThis" logs that had been posted to
other forums, but I still do not know what they mean.

Is it a legitimate system file and I'm just being paranoid about it,
or is it something that oughtn't be there and needs to go away? Any
help would be greatly appreciated, 'cos I'm stumped here.

Bill

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Ok, please disregard the above problem - the mystery is unraveled.

Someone on another forum mentioned having seen a post in yet another forum about that file, and a related Trojan file, mpr16.dll, that I recently discovered in my System32 folder. Making that connection, I checked in the Norton quarantine area and sure enough, there is the powerprof.exe file, harmless as a newborn after having been nailed along with mpr16.dll as the same Trojan. The remaining reg key is likely just what was supposed to activate the Trojan on my system, but no prog, no prob Now I can breathe again