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Is "active desktop mover" legitimate?


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CelestialTeardrop

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I finally turned on a computer that had been off for almost a month and the first thing I did was to run Windows update (and NIS update of course). The Windows update required a restart and immediately after starting up again I got a warning from WinPatrol that "active desktop mover" activeX (in shell32.dll) is trying to make system changes (I believe in IE8, but am not certain).

I tried looking online but can't find much about the active desktop mover. On one message board it is labeled in passing as malware (though not by a high-ranking member), but it shows up many times in people's HiJackThis logs and no one ever singles it out as bad. In addition the file is signed by Microsoft.

This activeX does not show up either in my IE8 manage add-ons window nor in my HiJackThis logs, but I can see it in WinPatrol under ActiveX.

Does anyone know anything about this file?

Thanks in advance!
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