Msascuil Is Malware?

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by Silverthunder, Dec 31, 2018.

  1. Silverthunder

    Silverthunder Sergeant

    I have a process in my startup called MSASCuiL

    Various websites are saying that this is malware, given that I am on a Windows 8.1 computer. Here are the links:
    https://www.file.net/process/msascuil.exe.html
    https://www.2-spyware.com/file-msascuil-exe.html

    In the second link provided above, the author recommends determining what directory the file is located in. But, when I right click on it in the startup list, the option to go to the folder that it's contained in is greyed out. All the other programs in the startup list have that option.

    I tried to search for this file but Windows does not find it. I even changed the Windows indexing to the entire C drive.

    I scanned with Malware bytes and Malware bytes does not find any infections.
     
  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Is it listed in Task Manager under processes?
     
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  3. Silverthunder

    Silverthunder Sergeant

    no
     
  4. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Please follow the Read and Run First procedures and attach the logs when done.
     
  5. Silverthunder

    Silverthunder Sergeant

    Should I start a new thread for that or post here?
     
  6. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Stay here.
     
  7. Silverthunder

    Silverthunder Sergeant

    Here are the files. I am not sure if I got what you needed for Malwarebytes. There is no history tab in Malwarebytes that I see (as described in the instructions). I will try to upload the screen shot of what I can see in Malwarebytes in my next post (max of 5 attachments per post).

    I noticed Rogue Killer found a file, Cisco.vbs. That's a file that I created and put into the startup by following some instructions online and editing it a bit myself. I am pretty confident about that file being ok.

    One problem that I am having with my computer is that sometimes my computer reloads the taskbar and desktop icons (they become white rectangles and then reload). This mainly happens when I open a program on my taskbar, which uses explorer.exe to go to a certain directory in My Documents. This serves as a shortcut because I use that directory often. (I don't believe there is another way to create a shortcut to a directory and have the shortcut appear on the taskbar.) The clearing and the reloading of the desktop items and the taskbar icons happens at other times, too, but I can't remember what other times that happens at the moment.

    Another problem that I am having with my computer is that sometimes when I load a directory in file explorer, the icons take a long time to populate (the icons just show as white rectangles. Sometimes it takes quite a while to populate or seems like it's not going to populate them at all.
     

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  8. Silverthunder

    Silverthunder Sergeant

    Here is the screen shot from Malwarebytes. This shows you what I am looking at, while I am saying "I don't see any history tab."
     

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  9. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    You need to clean out your temp files!!

    There is no malware in your system. The file you are worried about is part of Windows Defender.

    As to icons flickering...not unusual.

    Since you are not having any malware problems, it is time to do our final steps:
    1. We recommend you keep Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for scanning/removal of malware.
    2. Go to add/remove programs and uninstall HijackThis. If you don't see it or it will not uninstall, don't worry about it. Just move on to the next step.
    3. If running Vista, Win 7 or Win 8, it is time to make sure you have re-enabled UAC by double clicking on the C:\MGtools\enableUAC.reg file and allowing it to be added to the registry.
    4. Now go to the C:\MGtools folder and find the MGclean.bat file. Double click ( if running Vista, Win7, or Win 8 or 10 Right Click and Run As Administrator ) on this file to run this cleanup program that will remove files and folders related to MGtools and some other items from our cleaning procedures.
    5. Any other miscellaneous tools we may have had you install or download can be uninstalled and deleted.
    6. After doing the above, you should work thru the below link:
     
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