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« on: March 22, 2008, 11:48:08 PM »
ok, i happen to open msconfig....at the WIN.INI tab i saw "Annie".  shocked shocked

What the hell is "she" doing inside my PC?  shocked Anyone has similar experience Question

When i disabled "her", my PC seems getting a lot faster especially during startup.

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« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2008, 04:09:36 AM »
lolz, i have annie in my win.ini too...
btw, i'm running oem XP home, upgraded to SP2 (genuine)
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« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2008, 04:14:38 AM »
i don't have it. all i have is:

; for 16-bit app support(semi colon included)
[fonts]
[extensions]
[mci extensions]
[files]
[MCI Extensions.BAK]
[Mail]
[MSUCE]
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« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2008, 04:49:58 AM »
@ EF. are you using an A4Tech webcam?

@ FB. i have those too except the last two
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« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2008, 04:56:35 AM »
 Appears to be something for a camera, But I don't think so after looking elsewhere.

 Has to be malware.

 Try this software~ http://www.f-secure.com/blacklight/try_blacklight.html

 Or use hijackthis ~ http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/hijackthis/download
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« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2008, 05:05:50 AM »
ok, i'm gonna try the 2nd one, i was afraid of the "Notice" of F-secure.  undecided
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« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2008, 05:11:40 AM »
Quote from: coolbuster on March 23, 2008, 05:05:50 AM
ok, i'm gonna try the 2nd one, i was afraid of the "Notice" of F-secure.  undecided
  I searched quite a bit, there is a big ? as to exactly what this is, so be warned thats all.  I'm interested to see what your outcome is.
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« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2008, 01:39:47 PM »
 oh so nerdly! just to confirm I have [annie ] in win.Ini  shocked

BTW, I just finish a clean install of Xp pro with  sp2 on a laptop
nothing else installed , and [annie] aint on there ,
so  you got me looking also ,
edit to add =
BTW, it looks like it might be Nvidia graphics cards , my desk top has a nvidia card but the laptop Ati,
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« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2008, 01:57:38 PM »
Name: trutexan
Date: April 16, 2004 at 19:20:15 Pacific
Subject: Win.ini and Annie
 
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My XP Home PC has the Annie entry also but I do have a Nvidia card and several video editing programs. I just unchecked the entry months ago using msconfig and everything seems to be working OK. My AVG anti-virus and Spybot don't seem to notice it either.. http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/101980.html
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well guys it's an oldie (2004)
and seems to be
frame, rate etc.

so are all those with [Annie] using Nvidia cards ?
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« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2008, 02:30:58 PM »
Triple post from me  Laughing
win ini  [annie ]  well it's not a exe ,
I just disabled it and run some perfomance test with and without it enabled , and no differance on the score,
my Hijack this log is clean , also AVG, adaware and spybot are reporting nothing ,
I think it is just a system settings for Nvidia ,
and not a problem , BUT I will follow this thread with interest


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« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2008, 03:19:49 PM »
ouch just remembered d song from michael jackson heheheheehe

annie r u ok? r u ok annie? >>>>>> d question is: is it really ok to have her inside my pc? tongue2

BTW, cb am usin an a4tech cam, one thing, my winpatrol found something named BIGDOG.exe but then i blocked it from runnin during startup.

Roco, am also usin an NVIDIA graphic card.

hope to hear some new discoveries bout ANNIE. thanx guys
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« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2008, 04:09:49 PM »
i got that BIGDOG.exe blocked by winpatrol too. there's this DOMINO.exe also. all these after installing an A4Tech webcam, legit program for which is HAMCAP. disabling the first two's startup entries didn't affect anything, the cam is still working so they must be separate programs. graphics card is ATI.

HijackThis says i'm clean but I wanna get rid of [Annie], "she" bothers me.  undecided
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« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2008, 04:16:48 PM »
Quote from: 3DG3 on March 23, 2008, 03:19:49 PM
ouch just remembered d song from michael jackson heheheheehe

annie r u ok? r u ok annie? >>>>>> d question is: is it really ok to have her inside my pc? tongue2

BTW, cb am usin an a4tech cam, one thing, my winpatrol found something named BIGDOG.exe but then i blocked it from runnin during startup.

Roco, am also usin an NVIDIA graphic card.

hope to hear some new discoveries bout ANNIE. thanx guys
Hi 3DG3 , are you near route 88 ,?
never been to the states anyway ,  Laughing
well if MJ reckons annie is OK , thats good enough for me , but if he said Joe was OK , I would be worrying  evil6
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« Reply #13 on: March 23, 2008, 06:23:38 PM »
I got rid of a gal named annie once. But all I did was quit calling her number.  oh so nerdly!
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« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2008, 08:43:13 PM »
I am using two  Nvidia 7800GT in SLI on a 6 month old install of XP Home , no Annie

EDIT- SO far I found someone who was asking this same question back on April 16 2004.

http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/101980.html
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