I just had my Windows 7 Aero theme disabled when I was browsing the web, then the fan turned up considerably high. When I opened task manager the Windows Experience Indexer was running (I ran this a long time ago), which is strange since I didn't request it.
When I did a little research I found that it may have been set up as a task. When I opened the task scheduler I found that there was a task set up to run a text document as an executable (calo.txt). The task was named Yahoo! powered maned.
I opened the folder which holds the "text" document and found the following files (At the location: C:\ProgramData\{9FC75AA4-1585-D062-9343-4E200901C5EE})
aowLC
calo.txt
hdat1
hdat2
lefedo
litolir
sodi
I would post the contents of Calo but it is a lot of text. I have attached a small sample of the file contents though:
Does anybody have a clue what this could be? It was scheduled to run every hour, however I deleted the task and have quarantined the files. I haven't been able to find anything through a search.
Thank you!
Edit:
I have also run the contents of Calo.txt through a hex to ascii converter, however it doesn't reveal anything.
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I just had my Windows 7 Aero theme disabled when I was browsing the web, then the fan turned up considerably high. When I opened task manager the Windows Experience Indexer was running (I ran this a long time ago), which is strange since I didn't request it.
When I did a little research I found that it may have been set up as a task. When I opened the task scheduler I found that there was a task set up to run a text document as an executable (calo.txt). The task was named Yahoo! powered maned.
I opened the folder which holds the "text" document and found the following files (At the location: C:\ProgramData\{9FC75AA4-1585-D062-9343-4E200901C5EE})
aowLC
calo.txt
hdat1
hdat2
lefedo
litolir
sodi
I would post the contents of Calo but it is a lot of text. I have attached a small sample of the file contents though:
Does anybody have a clue what this could be? It was scheduled to run every hour, however I deleted the task and have quarantined the files. I haven't been able to find anything through a search.
Thank you!
Edit:
I have also run the contents of Calo.txt through a hex to ascii converter, however it doesn't reveal anything.
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