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Went ahead and deleted everything in the LocalData folder where I found file2.exe and now the problem seems to have stopped. One of the applications in said folder was called smsc or something to that effect. That one required me to go in in safe mode and delete it.

So yeah Comodo didn't detect a thing and the problem is still persisting... Think that was a waste of time. Should I try deleted the things in the folder I mentioned?

I actually found the file2.exe in Users>Owner>AppData>Roaming>LocalData There seems to be quite a few objects in that folder including an application titled smsc. All of them were added today at different times as well. Should I delete them all?

So I did a scan with malwarebytes and with ccleaner. Both removed some stuff, but now upon restart I've received the "do you want to allow the following program to make changes to your computer" message again. However, now it's saying the program is file2.exe...

File1.exe did not appear under my startup programs in ccleaner. Nothing seems to be working. I've googled this problem and come up with nothing but links to removal software that sounds just as malicious...

So I'm having a bit of a crisis on my PC. Every time I start up I get a message asking if I want to allow file1.exe to change my PC. Every time I do a scan with Malwarebytes I get at least one or two PUPs as well. Any advice on what this is and how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

So I'm not particularly computer savvy and I just got a new system that I put a lot of money into. I'm trying to be as careful as possible with this one and I've heard some bad things about Java so I wasn't sure if I should let it update now. Anyway any help would be much appreciated. P.S. I...