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troubled - 29 Nov 2004 04:52 GMT

Can anyone advise wether or not this file is required? Its in the registry
and I am not sure if I can delete it. Zone Alarm keeps blocking its attempt
to establish an outgoing connection.

Thanks for your time

Troubled

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troubled - 29 Nov 2004 05:01 GMT

I suppose I should IDENTIFY the file, that would help

WkUFind.exe

Found in:
c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\works shared\wkufind.exe

Zone Alarm references it like this:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run(WkUFind.exe)

It starts automatically during boot. So I cant delete unless I delete out
of the registry using RegEdit

> Can anyone advise wether or not this file is required? Its in the registry
> and I am not sure if I can delete it. Zone Alarm keeps blocking its attempt
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> Troubled

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Colin Nash [MVP] - 29 Nov 2004 05:33 GMT

> Can anyone advise wether or not this file is required? Its in the
> registry
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> Troubled

It's a legitimate part of Microsoft Works/Picture-It. It's searching for
updates for itself. If it bugs you, you can remove it from the run list in
the registry... otherwise tell ZoneAlarm to ignore it.

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Microsoft MVP
Windows Printing/Imaging/Hardware

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worried - 30 Nov 2004 12:55 GMT

Sorry for the bud in,but I get the same thing,only from Norton,
and I can't configure Norton not to show it .
So what now ?

> > Can anyone advise wether or not this file is required? Its in the
> > registry
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> updates for itself. If it bugs you, you can remove it from the run list in
> the registry... otherwise tell ZoneAlarm to ignore it.

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