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When running Hijackthis, I received the following:
Unknown file in Winsock LSP: c:\windows\system32\wpclsp.dll
Anybody know what wpclsp.dll is for? Perhaps it's new to Vista but a
search shows little to nothing about it. The properties reveal it's
registered to Microsoft as a WPC (?) LSP (Layered Service Protocol)?
I would be extremely careful about running older programs like HJT in
Vista. HJT log interpretation takes a lot of skill to start with (and
I'm not dissing your mad skilz since I don't know what they are) and
Merijn hasn't redone HJT for Vista. Some Googling around indicates that
this file is probably part of Vista.
http://www.castlecops.com/lsps-w.html
Unless you have some other reason to suspect that your computer is
infected, I wouldn't worry about it.
Steam, the Valve Corporation's Propriety Online-Gaming platform, when running a Connectivity scan detected this module and said it was the "ShopAtHome adware". I realise this is an old thread and I'm sorry for bumping it up but I felt this information was relevant. Since this thread is one of the first links that pops up when someone types "wpclsp.dll" into Google I felt that this would be a good place to tell people it could be potentially spyware/adware.
I say potentially because Steam could have got it wrong similar to Hijackitthis. But since it is now nearly 10 months since Windows Vista's release I think it should recognise whether it's a part of windows vista or not at this time. The thing is that none of my adware/spyware/virus scanners detected it so I don't know whether to delete it or not.
I'd like to hear you guys' advice on it; whether I should delete it or not. Steam suggested I should delete it as it says it can interfere with some of my Steam games.
You probably already know by now, but this is a part of Parental
Controls.
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