| When you run a Microsoft Office XP program, the file Ctfmon.exe (Ctfmon) runs in the background, even after you quit all Office programs.
Ctfmon.exe monitors the active windows and provides text input service support for speech recognition, handwriting recognition, keyboard, translation, and other alternative user input technologies.
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Night_Raven
| Keyboard language manager for Windows XP. Default location is C:\WINDOWS\system32. Could be malicious if NOT in it's default folder.
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john
| this can be used for keylogers
like family keylogger
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Koko
| Windows CTF Loader ctfmon.exe
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Added by the W32/Sdbot-DFS network worm and IRC backdoor. This infection should not be confused with the legitimate C:\Windows\System32\ctfmon.exe. ... Read More More information
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Eduardo Carrizales
| entonces no es un virus o un tipo de gusano o algo malicioso para mi computadora espero respuesta,
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Lino
| Microsoft Office 2007
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Jefferson
| Eu sou uma negação em inglês e confio nas informações do GLARY UTILIES, pois me aparenta ser bem eficiente.
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dad\'ems
| This seems to run no matter if you run Office or not.. I have not run it, nor do I knowingly have it (MS Office) installed, yet this program still runs.
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PlasticDreams
| Ctfmon.exe activates the Alternative User Input Text Input Processor (TIP) and the Microsoft Office Language Bar.
To prevent Ctfmon.exe from running, follow these steps...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282599#top More information
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Hannes
| I still dont know if I must keep ctfmon. It now appers twice in my startup file in msconfig,
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jim
| appears twice for me too but i know it is due to a 64 bit operating system
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max
| office 2003
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John
| It is needed to change from english to french on keyboard (Keyboard language manager for Windows XP)
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fredonchannelone
| Ctfmon.exe is running on my machine. I have never had MS Office. My machine came with Lotus suite of tools, but I use OpenOffice.org exclusively.
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Frenchesqa
| Outpost Security Pro detected that it tried to intercept my keystrokes.
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Joe
| On (my) computer, it is ctfmon.exe, located in /system32, and yet in Glary's process manager it appears as CTF Loader. So is it dangerous or not, any ideas?
There are many versions of the virus (see link), How can you tell which is which?
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Leo
| Useless. Remove it.
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Alvaro Silva
| I remover whit ctfmonremover fine no problems whit ythw operative systems ok More information
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Ub3rH@X0R 9oO0
| I deleted it and my pc wanted it for microsft office which i dont have to get me to buy. It doesnt do much, id leave it alone or face constant pop ups.
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Deiru
| The language bar that (sometimes) appears in the taskbar. Leave it enabled if you use the language bar. If not you can remove it.
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