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IEHighutil.exe Need urgent help, something that can fry my GPU
Hi,
After my friend lent me his minecraft mod setup, i noticed that there was a folder called Temporary on my C folder. I tried to delete it but it wouldn't let me because iehightuil.exe was using it.
I noticed my system was making more noise than usual on idle, as if the system was under stress, so i immediately shut it down. I went into bitdefender rescue mode, ran a full system scan, that didn't detect anything. I googled it, got worried, ended iehightutil.exe process and permanently deleted it from my system, removed it from msconfig startup and deleted it's entry.
But i am worried it has spread. Bitdefender didn't detect it at first. So what if it spread to some unknown location on which it won't be detected by bitdefender? I even installed malwarebytes but so far it didn't detect anything, so i'm not sure i removed the virus correctly, or they don't detect anything at all.
After googling iehighutil.exe, it is said that its an exploit to the java security hole, that uses it to infect the system in question.
Now after running revo uninstaller to uninstall java from my system, i see something shady called setup version 1.0, on further inspection lists me in Program Files a folder called AppName, which i don't know what it does.
Several people reported having their GPU fried after noticing Iehighutil.exe . I don't wish to be counted among them.
Can someone help me be sure that my system is clean, and my GPU won't be fried?