Virus or not a virus?

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juicyfruit

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When I start up my computer and everything is loading from windows 7 ,

there is 2 window popup screens and they read as the following,

in the blue outline it shows

ASUS Setup

C:\Users\owner\App Data\Local\temp\164557Log.iniis lost


Can someone help deceipher this and what is the cause for these windows to pop up.

This is a two week build.

the only programs i douwnloaded are
from dvd Diablo 3

RIFT the client and game from there site.

Skyrim from steam

Regsiter The black widow ulimate keyboard and the naga gamers mouse
from there site.

the componants of this PC as follows

Sabortooth Z77 motherboard which is a product of ASUS

Intel 3770k CPU

MSI GTX 670 GPU

Antec G302 tower 800 watts PSU (forgot the brand)

The RAM is 16Gig

THX in advance for the info and knowlegde on this subject.

Your time is and effort is greatly appreciated!!

REGARDS
juicyfruit
 
Are you comfortable editing the registry? If so then delete the following key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\ASUS\i-Setup164557]
 
tuffie

I did not think of that.

thx

Johnb35

not really but if i just need to delete that line that would simple.

If you could show a brief example i would feel more comfortable
about doing this procedure.

thx
 
Do not update the bios. To delete the registry key all you need to do is right click on i-Setup164557 on the left hand side and click on delete.

However, lets just see if we can stop it from loading at bootup. Please perform the following.

Download the HijackThis installer from here.
Run the installer and choose Install, indicating that you accept the licence agreement. The installer will place a shortcut on your desktop and launch HijackThis.

Click Do a system scan and save a logfile

Most of what HijackThis lists will be harmless or even essential, don't fix anything yet.

When the hijackthis log appears in a notepad file, click on the edit menu, click select all, then click on the edit menu again and click on copy. Come back to your reply and right click on your mouse and click on paste.

Post the logfile that HijackThis produces
 
Ok did the hijack protocol. Had trouble because the host could not write it down.

But it did narrow the problem down to the task scheduler for asus. I delete the line and i do not have the problem any more!!:D

I think you two gentleman for your input.

Regards
Juicyfruit
 
perizaad said:
Hi........

I received an e-mail that has a strange attachment with double extension on an attachment .jpg.vbs . When i opened this attachment, a dialog boxes appeared and i observed a sudden degradation in my system's performance.And this dialog boxes is now very frequently appearing on screen.Please give me some suggestions to resolve this problem.

Thanks

perizaad
Click to expand...

And you opened this attachment for what reason? Never never open an attachement unless you are specifically waiting for it from someone you know. Now you need to scan your system for malware.

Please download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from here or here and save it to your desktop.
  • Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
  • At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to
    • Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
    • and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
  • then click Finish.
  • If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version. Please keep updating until it says you have the latest version.
  • Once the program has loaded, select Perform quick scan, then click Scan.
  • When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
  • Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.
  • A log will be saved automatically which you can access by clicking on the Logs tab within Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

If for some reason Malwarebytes will not install or run please download and run Rkill.scr, Rkill.exe, or Rkill.com. If you are still having issues running rkill then try downloading these renamed versions of the same program.

EXPLORER.EXE
IEXPLORE.EXE
USERINIT.EXE
WINLOGON.EXE

But DO NOT reboot the system and then try installing or running Malwarebytes. If Rkill (which is a black box) appears and then disappears right away or you get a message saying rkill is infected, keep trying to run rkill until it over powers the infection and temporarily kills it. Once a log appears on the screen, you can try running malwarebytes or downloading other programs.



Download the HijackThis installer from here.
Run the installer and choose Install, indicating that you accept the licence agreement. The installer will place a shortcut on your desktop and launch HijackThis.

Click Do a system scan and save a logfile

Most of what HijackThis lists will be harmless or even essential, don't fix anything yet.

When the hijackthis log appears in a notepad file, click on the edit menu, click select all, then click on the edit menu again and click on copy. Come back to your reply and right click on your mouse and click on paste.

Post the logfile that HijackThis produces along with the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware log
 
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