Found unknown file in the temp folder.

original title: unknown exe file

Hi, can anyone help please, my firewall (Online Armor), maintains reporting an exe wants to run, for now I continue to block, as I was not able to know what it is, I ran several scans and it comes back clean, the full list is: -.

3d25f147-3f51-4f78-a7fa-09f39d0c91dc.exe, 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0)

C:\WINDOWS\Temp\3d25f147-3f51-4f78-A7FA-09f39d0c91dc.exe

(MD5) hash: C1B7BACC5F4A932870308FF2D2481F30

It's on my home pc, and as I travel, I can't use it for a few days, so I don't know when it started happening, I was wondering if it is a file update, I know that it is in the temp folder, but I didn't delete it, until I could find what it is for.

Thanks for your help

bobr_589

XP SP3

Avast antivirus

Hi bobr_589,

A standard procedure for the administration of the system is to reduce the amount of storage space used (typically a hard disk) by deleting temporary files.
 
That the file is in temp you can remove it because it is not a update file.
 
In addition to this review, if Windows update is working or not.
 
A Microsoft security in safe mode with networking scanner to make sure that the computer is completely virus-free
Step 1:
To start the computer in safe mode
 
Step 2:

The Microsoft Safety Scanner free is a downloadable security tool that allows analysis at the application and helps remove viruses, spyware and other malicious software. It works with your current antivirus software.

http://www.Microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx

Note: The Microsoft Safety Scanner expires 10 days.

Note: The data files that are infected must be cleaned only by removing the file completely, which means that there is a risk of data loss.

 
See the following steps to delete the content in the Temp folder.
1. click on Start. Click run. In the dialog box that appears, type temp , and then click OK.
2. open the Temp folder. You can delete everything in the Temp folder, including subfolders. Click Edit | Select all, and then press DELETE on your keyboard.
3. you can also try to delete other user accounts Temp files by performing the next step.
i. click Start. Click run. In the dialog box that appears, type %temp%, and then click OK.
 
See also:
Description of the tool in Windows XP disk cleanup
 
Hope this information helps.

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