Suspicious Looking File

[JaguarLover]

I was downloading a file yesterday and as soon as I opened it it came up with a dialogue box "Please Restart Your Computer" I immediately closed the programme with task manager and closed some processes that I knew it had created, today after going to turn on my pc a warning box saying "are you sure you want to the file" pointing to a file called svchost.exe, in the directory C:\Users\****\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft, this seemed so suspicious, I went to the directory and found the file called svchost.exe, It has the icon of something that has been programmed in visual basic, When I hover over it there is a lot of gibberish for the description and the company which just adds to the suspicion, any ideas, its almost certainly going to unleash an attack on my pc if i open it.

 

[theheyes]

Sounds comically suspicious. Upload it to virustotal and see what comes up.

 

[JaguarLover]

Will that wreck my pc + how do i do it?

 

[theheyes]

https://www.virustotal.com/

 

[JaguarLover]

Best way to delete it? Its a virus

 

[Aod]

err... run "Antivirus" perhaps?

 

[djshauny1]

malwarebytes

 

[mrk]

Are you asking what to do or just telling us what you did?


Heh.

 

[demonix]

svchost is one of those files that if it's running outside of either the windows/system32 or windows/syswow64 folder (if I've remembered the 64-bit folder structure correctly) then it should be ringing severe alarm bells and should be dealt with straight away.

 

[JaguarLover]

Will that **** up my pc + how do i do it?

What? I got reported asking to fully star out swearing, but its fully stared out?

 

[Gogl]

Ask one of the mods for clarification, it would seem a little excessive to want the 'up' to be censored also, but if them's the rules...

 

[ShortWarning]

What? I got reported asking to fully star out swearing, but its fully stared out?

Did you star out the 'f'? It looks like a mod added that first star.

 

[JaguarLover]

its gone

 

[Sighn]

^How?