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25-Jun-2008, 09:20 PM #1
Possible Virus Causing Long Boot Times
I'm trying to get help on this, and this forum looked as good as any, so I apologize if this is the wrong forum for this question.

I have been recently experiencing long boot times and have found the cause. Windows Vista's native Event Log says I have a driver that is slowing my boot time. Its name is "aaqi5ihu". It slows the boot by about 1 minute. It shows no extension, which I thought was a little odd. A Google search returned nothing. I also fully searched my PC (including non-indexed, hidden, and system files) and found no such file. Further viewing of the event log shows 10 recent (past 3 days) occurrences of an 8 random lettered, A starting, no extension, not appearing on Google or my system, and taking almost exactly 1 minute on startup drivers. I think I have a virus. I just performed a full-system "Thorough" scan (including archives) with Avast! and found nothing.

Any help on what this is or how to get rid of it would be amazing.

EDIT: Windows Vista Home Premium SP1, a recent installation of CommView for Wifi was flagged by AVG, but I ignored it since Avast! said nothing and it seems like legitimate software.

Last edited by crzftx; 25-Jun-2008 at 09:45 PM..
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07-Jul-2008, 07:07 PM #2
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