Potential virus? Can't find anything with the usual scans

Elixir · 1 Aug 2013 at 17:51

I get this pop-up in the corner of my computer every time it starts, sometimes it is for Adobe Flash, sometimes for Quicktime, always looks the same.

I've always been a bit suspicious of it so I've just ignored it for a while, but is it legitimate or something I should be getting rid of? I've scanned with the usual MSE and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and nothing gets found.

Thanks.

KIA · 1 Aug 2013 at 18:07

Do you have QuickTime installed?
What else is in the tray?

Some anti-virus products include software update notifications for 3rd party applications. There's also Secunia & FileHippo but it doesn't look like either of those.

Deleted member 77746 · 1 Aug 2013 at 18:16

format ?

Elixir · 1 Aug 2013 at 18:22

KIA said:
Do you have QuickTime installed?
What else is in the tray?

Some anti-virus products include software update notifications for 3rd party applications. There's also Secunia & FileHippo but it doesn't look like either of those.

Nothing interesting in the rest of the tray, I don't have any anti-virus software apart from Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes. I think Greenshot is the only other piece of software running but pretty sure that isn't anything to do with it.

mrbell1984 said:
format ?

A bit excessive, it isn't causing me any issues I'm more just curious what it is.

Deleted member 77746 · 1 Aug 2013 at 18:28

Elixir said:
Nothing interesting in the rest of the tray, I don't have any anti-virus software apart from Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes. I think Greenshot is the only other piece of software running but pretty sure that isn't anything to do with it.

A bit excessive, it isn't causing me any issues I'm more just curious what it is.

It's probably stealing your details as you type. You can't say it isn't causing you any issues when it's there on your system.

It may just be a pie e of software that does all the updates for you.

KIA · 1 Aug 2013 at 18:36

Elixir said:
Nothing interesting in the rest of the tray, I don't have any anti-virus software apart from Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes. I think Greenshot is the only other piece of software running but pretty sure that isn't anything to do with it.

Disable the network connection and select "click to update".

It might be worth running HijackThis & posting the log. http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/