ghost processes, pol.exe

[NynJa]

Everytime pol crashes, or I log out, it does this:


I only have two copies open...I think I noticed this starting to happen around dec 12, the patch that broke a lot of plugins, but it could have happened earlier. I dont think its a current plugin causing it, as I've just loaded a copy of pol with all plugins disabled, and closing that one leaves the ghost as well, unless its residual from the previous ghosts. If I load POL, but dont load up FFXI, the closed copy doesnt ghost. This doesnt happen with any other program either. I also use DualSend and Apradar2, but shutting them down doesnt solve anything, unless its residual again.

Should I be worried? I've run two separate virus and malware scanners, and both turned up nothing.

Beating it with a water bottle isnt an option, reformatting is, but would prefer not to if the potential problem can be bypassed without.

[xerodok]

You just need to get in the habit of restarting your computer often after your processes crash/you log out. 90% of the time, POL (and windower) will leave residual copies of the program in memory until you manually close it or reboot your PC. You shouldn't be worried unless your computer is slowing down because of this. The solution would be either rebooting your computer(as said above) or make a batch file to end the process tree of pol.exe.

[NynJa]

I was more worried about it being some new virus/malware, since it was recent. Thanks