Phantom exe in startup

[randomfreaky]

Hi! Just ran AWC for the first time, looks great!

 

Startup Manager did find something which I find very puzzling though maybe you can help me.

 

Proc112

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\EPOUEW.EXE

 

looks pretty nefarious to me, I've googled it to death and found nothing.

 

The strange thing is, it doesn't show up in my processes in the Task Manager and when I did a search in the SYSTEM32 directory I found nothing.

 

Could this be an extremely stealthy custom made trojan? I should probably just kill it but I REALLY like to find out what it is. I recently let a friend use my pc and he is a very talented programmer who I know has created very good keyloggers , I *can't possibly* imagine him doing such a thing to me but have just a WEE bit of paranoia.

 

Any advice?

Thanks

[samr]

Hi randomfreaky,

I can't find anything on it either. You could try doing a scan at File Research Center to see what all is running.

 

http://www.fileresearchcenter.com/

 

At top right hand in red it says HELP and asks if you would like to scan now.

If you click it will ask to install an active x-it is safe. After scan it will show everything running with a description.

You might also run Trend Micro online virus scan- very good at finding things but will take a long time to run.

 

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

 

Hope this helps.

samr.

[JustDave]

Process Explorer will often show processes that Task Manager won't.

 

Since you don't know exactly what it is or what it's doing, I would suggest you at least disable it in startup manager. What anti-virus/anti-spyware are you running?

[MattLee]

Hi! Just ran AWC for the first time, looks great!

 

Startup Manager did find something which I find very puzzling though maybe you can help me.

 

Proc112

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\EPOUEW.EXE

 

looks pretty nefarious to me, I've googled it to death and found nothing.

 

The strange thing is, it doesn't show up in my processes in the Task Manager and when I did a search in the SYSTEM32 directory I found nothing.

 

Could this be an extremely stealthy custom made trojan? I should probably just kill it but I REALLY like to find out what it is. I recently let a friend use my pc and he is a very talented programmer who I know has created very good keyloggers , I *can't possibly* imagine him doing such a thing to me but have just a WEE bit of paranoia.

 

Any advice?

Thanks

 

safest bet is download comodo's boclean and superantispyware. if its something suspicious one of them will usually detect it