What is "mrt" and "mrtstub"?

I did a Quick Scan with malwarebytes and it says it found 7 items! I had them removed and then restarted. But that's scary.

My brother said that it's possible it's stuff that Kaspersky already removed but there were still remnants of them in the registry. He said that Kaspersky doesn't change the registry so that's probably what they are. I don't know though.

I'm now doing a Full Scan and it says it found 6 items already.

It's scary. Is malware really bad?!

And thank you for your input about defragging Carl.

Malware is probably a greater threat than viruses for most people.

Malware Bytes and Super Anti Spyware are 2 good ways to fight it.

If you get your system clean and keep Malware Bytes and your antivirus program up to date, you've got a pretty good chance to keep the bad guys beaten down.

richc46 said:

See Malwarebytes does a good job. No reason to be scared they are gone now, do harm done. Just check on a regular basis.

Thank you for reassuring me. And definitely for recommending this program.

I'm going a Full Scan now and it's 13 minutes in and found 6 infected items so far. That's 13 altogether. But my brother said it's obviously not something harmful as the computer has been working all these months with no weird problems that can't be explained or anything like that.

ignatzatsonic said:

Malware is probably a greater threat than viruses for most people.

Malware Bytes and Super Anti Spyware are 2 good ways to fight it.

If you get your system clean and keep Malware Bytes and your antivirus program up to date, you've got a pretty good chance to keep the bad guys beaten down.

Okay. I've got Malware Bytes. You would say that's good right?

Yeah, it is a good program.

There are such things as false positives--it may find a file that it suspects is a threat, when in reality it is not a threat. All antivirus and anti-malware programs do this occasionally. Malware Bytes has a forum where you can try to find out if a particular file is really a bad guy or is just a false positive. They try to minimize the number of false positives, but still some will occur.

Ah, okay. Now False Positives could actually be stuff that's good and stuff that's needed correct? And if I remove them then something could go wrong correct?

Can I do things while Malwarebytes is running? Like play games and stuff?

richc46 said:

You are OK. You caught the malware, you have no virus. You know which are the dangerous sites, etc. Just enjoy, now. Im serious, just enjoy the system. Follow the advice that you were given and read the information that I gave you yesterday. Any future problmes, you know that you have friends here and you know we will be there for you.

Thank you very much for this!!

I'd run Malware Bytes when I wasn't using my PC for any particular purpose. If you do other stuff while it's running, it will take longer to complete and your games won't run as fast as they should. Do one or the other. A complete scan might take a half hour or more?

You should familiarize yourself with "System Restore" in Windows 7 if you have not done so already.

If you delete a file that is actually necessary, you can use System Restore to restore your PC to the way it was before you made the deletion. It is VERY useful and you might need it if you delete a false positive file that is actually needed by your system. But don't let false positives ruin your day--they are relatively uncommon and you should be able to recover from deleting them if needed.