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Anonymous
2019-10-20T20:27:16+00:00

Hey,

My pc was recently infected by a virus called shortcut virus and i saw in the internet that i have to

end a certain process in the task manager but i found a task called "gvtjpmcic.exe" and i think this might

be the problem causing the virus,but i found in the description that it is microsoft windows based script host

my question is,is this really for microsoft or just a fake description,and is it the task causing the virus?

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Performance and system failures

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Igor Leyko 111.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor
2019-10-20T20:31:43+00:00

Hi youssefyasser1,

you always may check digital signature in file's properties to see if this file is Microsoft or any other company.

If you wrote file name correctly it sure is not Microsoft.

Please run offline malware scan using Defender or any other tool e.g. Kaspersky Rescue Disk.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-10-20T20:35:44+00:00

    Thanks lgor Leyko this really helped me,i opened the properties tap and found that the original name was the name of the virus i was looking 

    for!

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