Just Got A Frightening Popup From Winpatrol

Any ideas what this could mean? I'm really frightened by it. I just saw an even more frightening window pop up just behind it.



This window MAY have popped up because I MAY have accidentally clicked a button in the first window without realising it while moving the first window out of my way. But I'm really terrified as to what's suddenly happening. Someone please help.

 

I'm still pretty certain I didn't click accept change. I just clicked and held the top of the window a few times to move it out of my way. What should I do now? Both windows are still on screen by the way, in case you think that I clicked accept change accidentally and the second window popped up. No. The second window popped up behind the first one but the first one didn't disappear. Presumably, if I had clicked something, it would have. So I'm inferring from the fact it hasn't that I didn't actually click anything after all.

 

Sorry for taking so long. I just did click reject but the restart now or later window is still showing. That didn't go away.

EDIT: And now I just got another WinPatrol alert.

 

The WinPatrol alert or the one that says restore now or later?

 

OK, just did. But will that matter? Doesn't that kind of window only pop up when you have made some kind of change that will take effect the next time the computer restarts regardless of whether you click now, later or the x?

 

Well I've had a Netflix account for a year or two now. Sometimes I watch Netflix on my computer but mostly on television. Don't see what could have affected that. And I did get an Amazon Echo for christmas but I haven't plugged it in yet or downloaded the Alexa app.

 

Just an "oops, this page could not be found." You mean you think this has to do with Alexa? But, like I said, I haven't downloaded Alexa yet, and I haven't even tried to plug in the Echo yet. So how could either of them be affecting my computer when I haven't gone near them yet?

 

Oh, OK. What could have affected it then, or what could it be doing? I wasn't watching Netflix on my computer at the time, or trying to. So what do you think might be happening? And what should I do about this,

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The only one that really stands out is something called ASYNCMAC because I see the word asyncmac in that WinPatrol alert window.

This is the first link that came up when I Googled asyncmac,

https://www.file.net/process/asyncmac.sys.html

 

So you're saying you think I should just click accept change in this window,



and forget about it?

 

OK, done, will try not to worry about it from now on unless something else happens. Thought it was a huge malware attack when it first happened.

 

I certainly hadn't made any changes, so I'm still a little worried as to what exactly did. I'll run a Malwarebytes scan later and see if that picks anything up. If not, I'll just try to forget about it.

 

Thanks. Not too concerned about it anymore, then. As long as it's not a virus or something. That's all that'd really worry me. I'll run Malwarebytes later and if that says I'm clear, I'll just forget about it.

 

Found a pretty good bit about this. Here is a link at Wilder's (start with Krusty post #14738):

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/voodooshield.313706/page-590

In this thread the same key reference shows up under the Registry (Whitelisted) heading in the Farbar scan results in the original poster's first post. It's whitelisted by Farbar. Additionally, in the Malwarebytes scan that follows it's not listed as anything malicious or sketchy, although five other keys are mentioned. Thread:

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/158485-malwarebytes-repeatedly-finds-pupoptionalmultiplug/

Here is another. Post #3 in the Farbar scan result again under Registry (Whitelisted):

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/590568/persistent-adware-and-malware/

Seems to show up frequently Farbar whitelist in scans.

 

Thanks! I ran Malwarebytes a half hour ago. Fully updated version and scanned for rootkits. It found absolutely nothing. Then I restarted the computer, and found out why I got that dialog box earlier that said I must restart my computer to apply "these changes".