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Umbilical
I have 2 programs regularly popping up on my firewall asking for access to internet and trusted zone, these programs are hltbrzupkm and qhfivawiw, they reside in C:/System32 library along with another program wqeigxxbpaja all of which have same properties but no descriptions.

I have found the first two programs in my startup list and removed them but hltbrzupkm keeps getting put back.

These programs started appearing around the time of a suspected virus attached to an email and their create dates support this.

My questions are is there a definitive answer as to if these programs should be in the system32 library, can I find out what's putting them in my start up list and can I take some steps to safely delete them.

I guess the program names have been randomly generated which is why any searches return nothing.
Shaba Admin/Teacher Emeritus
Hi Umbilical

Click here to download HJTInstall.exe
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Umbilical
Thanks for reply, have isolated 3 programs into a quarantine folder and renamed them, have removed program from start up and for now everything is ok.
Shaba Admin/Teacher Emeritus
Hi

I still recommend to follow my previous instructions :)
Shaba Admin/Teacher Emeritus
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