What is Xmail.exe?

isasmurf

Over the past few days there seems to have been a lot of disk activity, and data being passed to/from the internet when I am doing nothing.

When I used ZoneAlarm, to temporarily lock the internet while still being logged on it caused a fatal error to a program called Xmail.exe.

Today I checked the processes information when there was a lot of hard disk activity and it was the same program causing it.

Does anyone know is Xmail.exe a virus of some kind? And if so how to get rid of it. I have never installed anything called xmail so don't know how it got here?

greyster

I had a look on google for you. Some virus websites describe it as a key logging program.

Perhaps you should kill the process using ALT+CTRL+DELETE and see if the hard disk activity and internet transferring alters.

I would expect most uptodate spyware and virus checking applications to detect this.

http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/t/trojan_win32_fakegina.asp

sevlow

I did a search in google for "xmail" and this was listed first.

XMail is an Internet and intranet mail server featuring an SMTP server, POP3 server, finger server, multiple domains, no need for users to have a real system account, SMTP relay checking, RBL/RSS/ORBS/DUL and custom ( IP based and address based ) spam protection, SMTP authentication ( PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5 POP3-before-SMTP and custom ), a POP3 account syncronizer with external POP3 accounts, account aliases, domain aliases, custom mail processing, direct mail files delivery, custom mail filters, mailing lists, remote administration, custom mail exchangers, logging, and multi-platform code. XMail sources compile under GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OSX, Solaris and NT/2K/XP. Read the file README.TXT included with the distribution.

I guess you could remove the programme with the "add/remove programmes" function in control panel

Fran

sevlow,

What does that mean exactly for the rest of us? (Please!)

Is it a virus or not?