PING.EXE ... Don't post unrelated

[Harrison]

I just removed a virus a day ago. I suppose this is the last of it...

No matter what I'm doing I will get the message "TCP/IP.exe 'or PING.EXE' has stopped working" and proceed to terminate or check for solution ; as it prompts me to. I will then go to check my task manger and see the process is still running and not to my surprise, it is using mass amounts of my PC's memory. I try to terminate the process by hand in the task manger and it works, but it reappears almost immediately( only using about 3k instead of 76-90k of memory.

I'm not sure what this is saying about the security of my computer or the stability of my PC. I haven't seen any pop-ups or advertisements, though.

How can I stop this from happening so often and what is the purpose of the process PING.EXE?

I have malaware-bytes pro and MSE. It seems to be an effective combo.

Any actual related feedback would be appreciated. It seems all the threads I have read are just diluted crap.

PLEASE, ONLY POST RELATED INFO!

[COMPUTIAC]

Hi, try looking at these. The first one appears to explain a bit.

http://www.google.com/search?q=PING.EXE&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

[exile360]

In this case ping.exe is a component of a still-present infection. You can search for "ping" in this area and find many topics from users dealing with the same thing. To get cleaned up and your issues resolved you should do the following:

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