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gotnewupdate.exe is a harmful program.

It is a component of malware or spyware, you should immediately remove it using an antivirus and antispyware program. If that does not help, then ask us for help in the Spyware removal forum.

Name: gotnewupdate
Filename: gotnewupdate.exe
Registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run | gotnewupdate.exe

Command: %AppData%\{RANDOM}\gotnewupdate.exe
Startup Type: HKCU->Run
HijackThis Category: O4
HijackThis Line:

O4 – HKCU\..\Run: [gotnewupdate.exe] C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\601860124168C493D6893E2E5A73834D\gotnewupdate.exe

DDS Line:

uRun: [gotnewupdate.exe] C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\601860124168C493D6893E2E5A73834D\gotnewupdate.exe

Combofix/RSIT Line:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
“gotnewupdate.exe”=C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\601860124168C493D6893E2E5A73834D\gotnewupdate.exe

Description: component of Antimalware Doctor. Antimalware Doctor is a rogue (fake) antispyware program.

How to remove: use HijackThis + Malwarebytes` Anti-malware

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 at 10:54 am and is filed under O4, Rogue Antispyware/Antivirus, Run. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.