at in my C Drive

[manix]

For some reason an at.exe file has appeared in my C Drive.

File Type : Application
Size : 176 KB

I delete it and empty my recycle bin but when I restart my computer it returns. It has only appeared recently and I'm concerned about it. It has no properties information.

Even after I followed these instructions for another problem (which worked brilliantly). https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic17297.html

I thought that might of cleared it but it's still there.

Any advice would be welcomed.

Thanks.

 

[Spike]

Thankyou for following those instructions. It should make things a lot easier

There is a genuine microsoft file called at.exe, which may or may not be the file you are talking about.

Please could you run HJT and post a log as a text attachment to hopefully give us more info. If the file AT.EXE is not listed in that log, could you please give us the full location of the file (c:\windows\system32 for example).

 

[manix]

Hi Spike

When I click on it's properties, all it says is Location : C:/

It must of appeared from some place. I wonder if I should cut and paste it somewhere, but where ?

All very odd.

Here is an up to date HijackThis.txt file. Hope it's okay. If you could let me know if I should get rid of any of it (clutter), I would appreciate it.

Cheers

manix

 

[Spike]

scroll for the text highlighted by google in yellow... http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:6IY0S31Sj8wJ:www.i2i-tech.com/info/howto.html+c:\at.exe&hl=en

I'd say leave it there. It doesn't seem to be doing any harm. Your HJT log is pretty clean - there's nothing really nasty in there other than Norton (possibly THE worst choice of AV), but that's obviously your preference.

 

[manix]

Okay Thanks very much for your input.

Any recommendations for the best AV program ?

 

[Victor587]

www.download.com has a lot of security apps.

I have ewido, avast!, antivir, norton, ad-aware, microsoft antispyware, spybot, etc. I think antivir is ok but I don't think it's compatable with my other scanners (I run them at the same time). ewido and microsoft antispy are really good programs. ad-aware mainly removes cookies and internet stuff for me. spybot does a lot with the registry.. hope this helps you out.

 

[Spike]

If you're willing to pay, Kapersky (in spite of the recent flaw - there's soon be a patch and it doesn't happen often).

that said, avg free from http://free.grisoft.com/ should suffice.