Possible nasty program

ste-sim2x9 · 19 Jul 2010 at 21:19

My wife installed a program that popped up on her and i don't know what it is or if its nasty virus. I have windows 7 firewall control installed and the program in question keeps trying to connect to the internet but i have blocked it from doing so. The file is callied tpvmi.exe and it says its installed in C:\users\steve\appdata\local\temp\tpvmi.exe but i can't find it. Any ideas on what it is and how the delete it.

TheCenturion · 19 Jul 2010 at 21:21

are you sure that's what it's called?

Go to the temp folder, and then go into folder options and enable show hidden files and folders

deuse · 19 Jul 2010 at 21:23

Install CCleaner problem solved.

Also wrong section

horseunderwater · 19 Jul 2010 at 21:24

Try downloading malwarebytes and scanning with that

SoundsGood · 19 Jul 2010 at 21:24

edit: too slow

yhack · 19 Jul 2010 at 21:31

Download hijackthis and post the log here

http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/

Crowort · 19 Jul 2010 at 21:42

If it is malware / a virus then the name might not mean much, a lot of them make a random string for the process name every time they run.

Hotwired · 19 Jul 2010 at 21:47

Winkey+R

Type Cmd, press enter

Copy and paste - need to right click to paste, ctrlV won't work in command line:

del C:\users\steve\appdata\local\temp\tpvmi.exe

ste-sim2x9 · 19 Jul 2010 at 21:52

Just running malwarebytes now and i did the del in cmd so hopefully its gone.

ste-sim2x9 · 20 Jul 2010 at 08:27

It has not come up since so i think its gone so thanks for the help .