why would scardsvr.exe start running?

[jbclem]

I've never seen it running in task manager before, and I don't have any kind

of smart card device...don't really know what it is. But today it just

started running as a process, I didn't see it doing anything and I checked

it on Virustotal.com and it was perfectly clean. But still, what would have

given it permission to run? Any ideas...



John

 

[Greg Russell]

"jbclem" wrote in message

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> I've never seen it running in task manager before, and I don't have any

kind

> of smart card device...don't really know what it is. But today it just

> started running as a process, I didn't see it doing anything and I checked

> it on Virustotal.com and it was perfectly clean. But still, what would

have

> given it permission to run? Any ideas...



Adminstrative Tools -> Services and disable/stop it if you don't use it.