Strange doc generated at computer startup

Factual Questions
1

Out of the blue, my workstation has started generating a document during its (very infrequent) startups. (I reboot my system anywhere between once and never a month.)

At the very end of the boot sequence, I get a “how do you want to open this document” pane. I’ve selected a couple of apps and the issue just disappears. Today I selected Word and it opened this strange little Unicode doc:


  ===========================================================================
  Interface List
   11...bc ae c5 5e 3c f6 ......Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
    1...........................Software Loopback Interface 1
   12...00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
   13...00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
  ===========================================================================
  
  IPv4 Route Table
  ===========================================================================
  Active Routes:
    None
  Persistent Routes:
    None
  
  IPv6 Route Table
  ===========================================================================
  Active Routes:
    None
  Persistent Routes:
    None

No file name or location when I went to save it.

What in the hell is generating this, and why? The only recent change has been an upgrade from AVG 2011 to 2013.

For however it might be related, my system screensaver won’t kick in, either. Reboots haven’t fixed that.

2

Look in your startup folder and see if there is anything in there from Realtek, or anything that looks like it’s producing that report.

3

All I can tell you is that seems to be the output of a “route print” command. No idea what would be executing it at startup tho. But since it shows no routes at all, it must be executing before your TCP/IP settings take effect.

4

Do a search-by-content for something in the doc, like “Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface”, and let us know where it is stored. That’ll help narrow it down.

5

If it doesn’t have a file name, I don’t think the document is actually in the startup folder. But something is running at startup and generating it, somehow.

You could go into the startup folder and take things out…see if you can isolate it.

There are other ways to auto-start programs…registry entries, for instance. Have you run a virus scan recently?