Posted February 2, 201015 yr On Jan 14, 2:22 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. > >     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
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