Cynthia,

Better follow Malke's advice a do some scanning.

Read over this site, don't think you will be to happy :<(
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache...lnk&cd=1&gl=us

Originally, nginx was developed to fill the needs of various websites run by
Rambler. According to the January 2008 Netcraft survey, nginx is now used on
842,206 domains, making it the 6th most popular web server. Large sites that
use nginx include:

YouPorn [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouPorn

hulu [2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulu
In addition, Zimbra includes nginx as POP3 and IMAP proxy/router

BTW, if you install anything from anywhere ALWAYS use the option if
available and use Custom install. There's lots of junk added with today's
software the user never knows about when they select Typical.


--
All the best,
SG

Is your computer system ready for Vista?
https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/

"Cynthia Blue" <tiptailer******.com> wrote in message
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>I run my laptop at work and the big LAN guys monitor various things
> that could be suspect. Today I was told that nginx is running on my
> laptop's IP, occasionally spiking, and making them nervous.
>
> I run Windows Vista Home addition and I don't need a server on it. I
> have been reading that nginx is a web servrer, like apache. Which is
> all fine and good but I don't know how it got on my laptop, and I
> don't know how to get it off.
>
> Perhaps it installed with some other application? My work thinks it
> may be spam, adware, malware, or otherwise malicious.
>
> If anyone knows how I can remove this please let me know. I've spent
> the last couple hours on google and all I can find about nginx is that
> it's a web and mail server, I can't find what apps might use it, and
> how I can remove it.
>
> Thanks
> Cynthia
> http://www.lunatail.com