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[simrick405]

Hi. I started up a brand new Acer Aspire One Netbook today, installed Comodo Firewall + Antivirus, ran an initial scan and it came up clean. Then I installed SuperAntiSpyware, ran a quick scan and it found 22 unidentified problems. Well, some of them are related to Google, but I decided to run Malwarebytes to find out if there was really anything harmful or was I just getting some false alarms with SAS. I installed Malwarebytes and ran a scan - it came up with an infected registry key kt_bho.KettleBho. I am now running a Panda online scan.

Is it possible that this computer was shipped from the factory with an infection? I don't want to remove this kettleBho and find the thing doesn't boot anymore - it's a netbook, so no CD/DVD and I haven't figured out yet how to restore the OS if it fails. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[AumaanAnubis]

After little google research, it appears to be a virus of some sort.

I'd suggest deleting it. I doubt that any company would make a required file that has a similar filename to a virus.

But that's me. I'm no computer expert or anything.

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