What is Entice1.exe?

Factual Questions
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The referenced program appeared by magic on my computer. I have ZoneAlarm Pro, which advised me that it was a keystroke recorder. ZoneAlarm has blocked the thing from running, I hope, and has also blocked internet access to and from the thing. I would like to know where it came from and how, if possible.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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      • Hmmm, Google knows nothing. <:\
  • Where was it located? (browser cache or elsewhere?) Was it running, or was the file just discovered by ZoneAlarm on a virus or spyware scan? Have you done a regedit search for registry entries for it?.. What browser and email program do you use?
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With a name like that, I’d be concerned about it. Have you tried googling alternate variants of the name, like “entice1”, “entice.exe” etc.?

A brief hijack though: We also have ZoneAlarm Pro and it was just (in the past week) updated to include a firewall. Did this happen with you also? Now I’m getting periodic alerts about several programs wanting to log keystrokes. Trusted programs. As in, Quicken. As in my Palm-based Weight Watchers software (when I sync, it interacts with their website to get updates).

With Quicken, obviously this is trusted but I say no each time to prevent the logging, and Quicken continues to work just fine. With the WW update, the sync fails if I don’t allow logging.

So anyway - my theory is that ZoneAlarm’s firewall is catching some innocuous behavior, at least some of the time.

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:smack: Not firewall, antispyware :smack: :smack:

Yes, in fact I did know that ZoneAlarm was, and always has been, a firewall.

Please tell me it’s Friday :smiley:

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I did update ZoneAlarm Pro and it has hit me with more alerts than ever. This Excite thing is the only one specified to be a key stroke logger, though. I’ve also experienced sudden loss of connection to the internet, which I thought was a separate issue----I have DSL and it really irks me to have to re-start to get reconnected. I think I will just hunt up the original ZoneAlarm Pro CD and go back to square one.

Thanks for the response.