How to remove motmon error

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motmon.exe file information

The process Motive Monitor Service belongs to the software Motive System or Fujitsu Service Assistant or Motive Monitor Service or Remote Administrator v2.1 KWC by Motive Communications, Inc (www.motive.com).

Description: motmon.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files". Known file sizes on Windows XP are 135168 bytes (55% of all occurrence), 155648 bytes, 139264 bytes.
The program is not visible. motmon.exe is not a Windows core file. Program starts upon Windows startup (see Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run). motmon.exe is able to monitor applications. Therefore the technical security rating is 48% dangerous.

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External information from Paul Collins:

"MotiveMonitor" can run at start up. Found on HP/Dell and Compaq systems (and maybe others). MotiveMonitor is used the suppliers on-line support and allows the agent at the far end to do harddrive/ram/video/etc tests on the computer. Can cause some users problems with IE and Netscape by disabling this - in this case leave it to run. You may also wish to leave it alone if the PC is still within the support period from the manufcaturer. For most users it's not required

Important: Some malware camouflage themselves as motmon.exe, particularly if they are located in c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 folder. Thus check the motmon.exe process on your pc whether it is pest. We recommend Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security. It is one of the Top Download Picks of 2005 of The Washington Post and PC World.

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