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kservice.exe - what is it and why can I not easily remove it?

I was just doing a checkup on my machine and I noticed a program had "Hung on starting" in the event viewer. Kservice.

What the hell is that I thought... well, without the boring details that is the file sharing (P2P) part of Sky by Broadband, sitting there even though I uninstalled it ages ago. Agh! WHY do companies do that... when you remove a program, it should remove everything and not leave a file sharing application sitting on my PC thanks!

I have since found a couple of other comments on the subject:

http://idunno.org/displayBlog.aspx/2006011101
http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/Blog/blogentry=00175/Blog.aspx

Posted: Fri, Feb 17 2006 19:36 by NickWhittome | with 8 comment(s)

Filed under: General

Comments

Ishmael Rufus said:

Try using "Rootkit Revealer". It is great for getting rid of residue left behind dirty applications. You would be suprised what one application could leave behind.

# February 21, 2006 10:48 AM

NickWhittome said:

Agreed, all of Mark's tools are fantastic.

# February 21, 2006 4:03 PM

Tony Clarke said:

Since found out that this service can open up your PC to use by anybody outside your local network.

Dodgy and dangerous software. recommend that you diable the service if you are unable to remove it

# October 13, 2006 7:34 AM

Gavin Steele said:

As an aside, a friend of mine just had trouble with this since 4OD (4's new on demand service) also uses it.

# February 19, 2007 8:43 AM

Carld said:

Thanks Gavin, pc has kservice.exe I was sure I never installed Sky broadband, but the wife said she watched some channel 4 prog on the PC the other night, Channel 4OD now deleted

# July 16, 2007 2:26 PM

Steve said:

.....and the new BBC iPlayer service now uses KService.exe too. I have Sky, 4OD and BBC iPlayer on the PC - and now the PC won't start any of them after installing the new BBC player - something got scrambled

# August 2, 2007 1:44 AM

Frederic said:

AOL Hi-Q Video Delivery Manager also uses KService.

# September 19, 2007 6:48 PM

Kev said:

Just as a sideline. KService.exe opens on Port 80 which will crash you IIS service if it starts first.

# February 1, 2008 11:30 AM

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