Are these malware??

[Jokayal]

Hi! Alright so my computer has been running fairly slow lately and it seems that the culprit may be this "msvcrt.exe" that runs in the background. After looking it up online I've found numerous forums and such telling me that msvcrt.exe is a virus. However my Microsoft Security Essentials doesn't pick it up during a scan.

So I went to systems config and looked at startup items. There I found 2 suspicious looking things.

One was called "msvcrt_" and it's located here: C:\users\me\AppData\Roaming\Ms_dir_\msvcrt.exe
(MSE doesn't pick up anything when I scan this folder directly.)

The other is called "4444 application" and it's located here: C:\users\me\AppData\Roaming\52223D.exe
Also this one is on the system config startup list 3 times.

So my question is, are these indeed viruses? And if so how can I remove them if MSE isn't detecting them?

[Kestrel13!]

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