I have crappy luck with weird viruses, it seems. A few days ago I apparently contracted something called 'setup41.exe'. Every time I start my computer, a red shield with an x on it appears at the bottom task bar, similar to the standard windows type thing, but it seems to be just the virus itself. It says my computer may have a virus, and when I click on it, it opens a page where a virus scanner tries to download itself. And then Avast! Alerts me as soon as it's done, which is a sign that the virus checking program it's trying to download is entirely fake. It must be, since Avast! Itself doesn't consider setup41.exe a virus, because I've scanned three times now, and it hasn't found anything. Oddly enough, nothing has happened to my computer. In fact... if I open up the task manager, and end setup41, as well as some other program that came with it (1mp, or tmp, or something, I can't remember), they go away, and don't come back until I restart my computer. I've tried restoring all the way back to July 1st, an entire month before I got this stupid virus. Help?

I've tried searching online for it, but there's hardly any information about it at all, except for one of those stupid "Hey, got a virus? Download this program to scan for it! We won't get rid of it, we'll just re-affirm that you do in fact have the virus." Most of those scanners seem to be viruses themselves.

To recap;

-- Name; 'setup41.exe'
-- System Restored an entire month backwards.
-- Virus scanned with Avast! Three times, never got a virus detected message or an error message.

Right click on taksbar and click task mgr. look for setup41 and end process if there

Click start, run and type msconfig and then the startup tab and look for anything that may not belong (post if you like what is there) and take checkmark out of box

Click start, search and do a search for setup41.exe, if/when found, delete file(s)

Also do a search for these files, if found delete
25008265.SVD and 26391901.EXE

If any of above is true, restart, hope this helps

Here is a link with info on setup41.exe
SETUP41.EXE, Prevx

Okay, so I found setup41 in msconfig, in the start-up tab at the very bottom. I unchecked that. I searched for setup41 previously, which I forgot to mention, and it found one file which I deleted. I re-searched here, and also searched for those two you gave me to look for -- nothing on all three. Finally, I restarted, and... it's gone. It didn't pop up, it's not in the task manager, and neither is that other tmp file I was talking about.

Thank you very much for the help. I guess it was pretty simple! x.x

Hopefully that's it, just try to remember what you got that from and stay away