Solved bitc.exe

[sortajan]

I shut my computer down during a thunderstorm (and unplugged it, so there were no problems there) for about an hour, and when I rebooted it and logged back in my screen was black and I had a loading box saying something to the effect of:

setting up personalized settings
C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\bitc.exe

That's not bitch.exe, it's bitc.exe. Close, but not quite. It just sat there loading, and I have a feeling that it wouldn't have changed ten minutes later. Anyways, I was able to load up my task manager and manually cancel the process (bitc.exe). I immediately went into that folder and found the file sitting there inconspicuously. I don't quite know what to do with it, but I'm withholding judgement since I don't know what it is. I did a google search and nothing turned up (except loads of references to bitch.exe). Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I should approach this?

P.S. - I use a paid and fully up-to-date version of avast! and I run weekly virus scans. I'm extremely cautious.

 

[zigzag3143]

I am also thinking malware. Try downloading malwarebytes and running it. the only refs to "bitc.exe" I find are related to a keylogger.

 

[Golden]

Hi,

If this bitc.exe is smaller than 20MB, upload it to Virus Total where it will be scanned by several anti-malware engines, and a report produced.

Regards,
Golden

 

[sortajan]

I ran that malware program and found five (presumably) unrelated infections; I promptly removed them. I then manually deleted the bitc.exe file the old-fashioned way and restarted my computer. Cleaned up my registry with CCleaner and everything seems fine. Thanks for the help guys.

 

[Golden]

Thats sounds good, but re-run Malwarebytes now if you haven't already to make sure that all/any traces of the infection are removed - many malware are immune to manual deletion, having already injected traces of their code into other files before you even thought of deleting it.

Regards,
Golden

 

[karlsnooks]

sortajan,

Be sure to follow Golden's advice. Some malware is very clever and have "buddy" modules. If one of them detect that's his "buddy' is missing, then he resurrects his dead friend.