cmdow.exe & reboot.exe

[dibbles00]

Hi,
I have just upgraded to AVG free edition 8 and it has found some harmful bugs :spider:

It has found C:\WINDOWS\reboot.exe and also C:\WINDOWS\system32\reboot.exe

Do you know much about these as a search on Google returns some mixed results and I would like some professional to give me his/her opinion if possible.

Thanks in advance.
Dee

 

[pskelley]

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Since I am limited to the same Google you are, I will tell you that recently that file is being used by tools like Smitfraudfix:

and others, I almost never see it running by itself. Here are free scans you can use to find out what it is:
http://virusscan.jotti.org/
http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus
http://www.virustotal.com/

If you have symptoms of malware, or reason to believe malware is involved, read and follow the directions pinned (sticky) to the top of this forum and posted above.

Thanks