I have been looking through the services tab on a Windows XP machine and I came across a reference to a serice called “CoFaud” (currently disabled). There were no clues as to the path for this service or what is function was.

Out of curiousity (and obviously to make sure it wasnt a trojan/virus etc), I ran a google search – http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Cofaud+windows+service but this returns exactly ZERO hits.

Even a search for the term “cofaud” only returns 30 hits – almost all names and nothing to do (as far as I could) with a potentially rogue windows service. Does anyone have any idea what this service is?