Soldato
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- 10 May 2004
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I believe I have some malware on my laptop (google seems to confirm this).
Whenever I boot my laptop (win 8, also had it on win 7 before I upgraded), a process starts running automatically called 'Media Dashboard 32.exe'. What this does is cause phantom audio to play in the background. If I end the process it is fine until I reboot.
The file causing this is 'stdrt.exe'.
Nod32 does not pick this up, neither does malwarebytes.
Various sources on the net say to delete the file in question (it is not protected so can just be deleted) and to delete any registry entries relating to it. I have done this a few times but sure enough, every time my laptop is restarted it's back there again.
Any ideas?
Whenever I boot my laptop (win 8, also had it on win 7 before I upgraded), a process starts running automatically called 'Media Dashboard 32.exe'. What this does is cause phantom audio to play in the background. If I end the process it is fine until I reboot.
The file causing this is 'stdrt.exe'.
Nod32 does not pick this up, neither does malwarebytes.
Various sources on the net say to delete the file in question (it is not protected so can just be deleted) and to delete any registry entries relating to it. I have done this a few times but sure enough, every time my laptop is restarted it's back there again.
Any ideas?
