So, I'm just minding my own business watching breaking bad and doing a little video encoding when all of a sudden Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G major starts playing!! I thought this must be a virus or something, someone's playing with me with a trojan horse, I'm a very careful user with this type of thing, I immediately went to investigate what program was playing the music from volume mixer, it turns out "compatibilitycheck.exe" is the cause. I looked this up and its malware to do with "ad savings" or equilivent. I have no idea how I got this since I'm careful, although Chrome sometimes brings up ads and I have to turn off chrome extensions. Has anyone else had this issue, I have MS Security Essentials but it cant find it. I could not believe it, never in 20yrs has anything like this happened!!
Update: I have found the file, its in //users/"application data"/compatibility verifier/... I could not access the folder but was able to delete no problem. MS Security Essentials did not find anything wrong with the file This is totally weird
Did you scan with malwarebytes ? I would junk MS Essentials, and try scanning with either Avast or 360 internet security...
I'm scanning with malwarebytes now, wow its found a lot of stuff! pup.optional.multilug, trojan.agent etc... I'm going to seriously consider a more premium malware and virus program, which do you recommend?
There are allot of Free Antiviruses out there, And it just comes down to what you like.. Avast is good, I use 360 internet security.. You will just have to try some for yourself...
I recommend a rescue cd to run a virus scan on boot, i think kapersky has one. Then once that's done run the virus scan again while in Windows. Malware Bytes is a good one.
Compatibilitycheck.exe actually is a part of an ad-ware program that will display adverts on your computer. Its usually located at 'c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\roaming\compatibility verifier\' folder. Want to remove use some of them: AdwCleaner: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ or Malwarebytes Free: https://www.malwarebytes.org/free/ or SuperantiSpyware Free: http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispyware.html
