Ambiguous File Compatibilitycheck.exe Malware?

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dwarfer09

Geek Trainee
So, I'm just minding my own business watching breaking bad and doing a little video encoding when all of a sudden Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G major starts playing!!

I thought this must be a virus or something, someone's playing with me with a trojan horse, I'm a very careful user with this type of thing, I immediately went to investigate what program was playing the music from volume mixer, it turns out "compatibilitycheck.exe" is the cause.

I looked this up and its malware to do with "ad savings" or equilivent. I have no idea how I got this since I'm careful, although Chrome sometimes brings up ads and I have to turn off chrome extensions.

Has anyone else had this issue, I have MS Security Essentials but it cant find it. I could not believe it, never in 20yrs has anything like this happened!!
 
Update: I have found the file, its in //users/"application data"/compatibility verifier/... I could not access the folder but was able to delete no problem. MS Security Essentials did not find anything wrong with the file

This is totally weird
 
Ghostman 1 said:
Did you scan with malwarebytes ? I would junk MS Essentials, and try scanning with either Avast or 360 internet security...
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I'm scanning with malwarebytes now, wow its found a lot of stuff! pup.optional.multilug, trojan.agent etc...

I'm going to seriously consider a more premium malware and virus program, which do you recommend?
 
There are allot of Free Antiviruses out there, And it just comes down to what you like.. Avast is good, I use 360 internet security.. You will just have to try some for yourself...
 
I recommend a rescue cd to run a virus scan on boot, i think kapersky has one. Then once that's done run the virus scan again while in Windows. Malware Bytes is a good one.
 
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