mixboltamok?

This may sound a bit weird: Twice now, a program called, "mixboltamok.exe" has appeared in my system and caused wonky behavior. When I run MSCONFIG, it has two entries. (both unchecked now, of course; I ran a search for the executable & deleted it both times as soon as I noticed it.) The program was installed alone inside a folder called "free copy" in C:\docum~1\admin~1\application data. I haven't been able to determine where it comes from yet.

What's odd is that there is NO mention of this app anywhere on the net. I have never had any kind of malware that no one else ever had had a problem with or somehow mentioned in passing online.

So what I want to know is, is there a place where I can filter out that particular executable in the future? I was thinking that this might be the kind of thing I could do in the MMC but honestly I haven't had call to use it much.

I'm using Bit Defender, but it's not configurable in that way AFAIK.

 

Hey thanks, chaslang. Very sensible idea, elegantly simple.

I did as you suggested, put one read-only folder w/ same name as malware folder, containing read-only doc of same name as malware.exe, in system, system 32, and in application data, where it first turned up. (I had already done the disinfecting, thoroughly.)

Thanks again.