Scheduler of tasks, possible malware attack vector

I noticed that more and more PC I clean have tasks in Task Scheduler that point to malicious sites.
 
I see also a few comments of MSE responses stating the same thing.
 
This might be a reason why some of the software malicious guard re-appearance.
 
A good thing to check.

Looks like this may be a new variant or simply a recovery of what follows from late October last.

Loves of malware Windows Task Scheduler

http://www.InfoWorld.com/t/malware/malware-loves-Windows-Task-Scheduler-177047

This particular variant seems to occur more with Windows XP, it can only be the used exploit either has no collateral to the Task Scheduler on later versions of Windows, or it was not just written correctly to work on it.

Rob

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