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YKhan
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On Jan 14, 2:22Â pm, Yousuf Khan wrote:
> Peter Foldes wrote:
> > Yousuf
>
> > This is a malware and you should use the 2 following free tools to get
> > rid of it. Ad-aware and Spybot S&D will NOT do the job on this one
>
> > Use the 2 following tools
>
> > MalwareByteshttp://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
> > and SuperAntiSpywarehttp://www.superantispyware.com/download.html .
>
> Okay, I've done that now, Malwarebytes found one which looks like it
> might be the culprit. Malwarebytes simply categorized it as a
> "Trojan.FakeAlert", and it was a file under the %appdata%\Google folder
> called "updovl32.dll".
>
> I'll see if the alert pops up again, otherwise hopefully this fixes it.
> I wasn't even thinking along the lines of malware, it looked like a
> normal message.
>
> Â Â Â Â Yousuf Khan
Well, it turned out that this wasn't part of a malware program, it was
just an old OEM video driver installation program that was giving this
message. However accidentally, the anti-malware programs did find a
real live malware app sitting on the disk, so there was a side benefit
to this hunt.
Yousuf Khan
> Peter Foldes wrote:
> > Yousuf
>
> > This is a malware and you should use the 2 following free tools to get
> > rid of it. Ad-aware and Spybot S&D will NOT do the job on this one
>
> > Use the 2 following tools
>
> > MalwareByteshttp://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
> > and SuperAntiSpywarehttp://www.superantispyware.com/download.html .
>
> Okay, I've done that now, Malwarebytes found one which looks like it
> might be the culprit. Malwarebytes simply categorized it as a
> "Trojan.FakeAlert", and it was a file under the %appdata%\Google folder
> called "updovl32.dll".
>
> I'll see if the alert pops up again, otherwise hopefully this fixes it.
> I wasn't even thinking along the lines of malware, it looked like a
> normal message.
>
> Â Â Â Â Yousuf Khan
Well, it turned out that this wasn't part of a malware program, it was
just an old OEM video driver installation program that was giving this
message. However accidentally, the anti-malware programs did find a
real live malware app sitting on the disk, so there was a side benefit
to this hunt.
Yousuf Khan