EDIT: Okay I clicked on the process and picked “Preform Administrative Task” (Or something similar) and it came up with another “Task Manager List” of Processes and it said it was created on early Junuary 2008 and it was some sort of SYSTEM file, so I’d imagine it’s safe.
But can anyone confirm? EDIT: Okay I researched it and apparently consent.exe has a malware-version of it. Though I don’t know what consent.exe really does (Normal version and Malware version). But my cursor did show the “loading” icon for a longer period of time than normal… I don’t know, maybe I’m just paranoid.
Okay I found where it is: C:\Windows\System32
I added a picture of it below.
P.S. I only can “Preform Administrative Task” on it in the Task Manager. (After I do “Preform Administrative Task” however, it lets me do other things with it)
Sorry for being off topic, but Avast! just detected “mbamswissarmy.sys” as a rootkit again. :
This is a FP right? I just chose to “Ignore” it. But I thought I added it to exclusions. (Check my last topic here.)
@Pondus:
Are you saying the consent.exe I have is malware? Or are you just posting information about it?
Just consider these info http://spywarefiles.prevx.com/RRHJID405482/CONSENT.EXE.html http://www.technologyquestions.com/technology/windows-vista/132192-consent-exe.html
There is a MalWare version of Consent.exe
Right Click ALL of the ones you find and look for
Microsoft details in Properties
Comment found: “ten consent.exe skanowałem też poleconym prevx i jest ok tzn czysto. Wobec tego zezwolic na dostęp do sieci bo zapora co uruchomienie peceta to komunikuje ,że zablokowała dostęp do sieci consent.exe”
translated: “this consent.exe scanned through Prevx and it is ok, that means clean. Therefore allow access to the network because the firewall at the PC to run it communicates that it has blocked access to the network for consent.exe”,
Are there several consent.exe on the computer? Or shouldn’t there be?
I know I checked the new Windows 7 computer and it had two consent.exe on it, as well as something called consent.mui but that’s another story.
If I find more consent.exe, should I scan them with my programs (Avast!/MBAM) or with Virustotal?
However,
From what I can understand (Sorry, my malware knowledge is limited) I have no malware and my consent.exe is totally safe.
No malware or anything, but I just got the warning about rootkits again and it’s the same old file, mbamswissarmy.sys. I added it to the exclusions but I guess I didn’t do it right.
Has Avast! not fixed this FP yet?
Thanks for the reply, but I’m pretty sure it’s a FP right?
It’s just the mbamswissarmy.sys file it keeps detecting. I have scanned several times recently (As in around every day/3 days) with both Avast! and MBAM and both find nothing. My Windows Defender and BitDefender Quick Scan also does not find anything.
I think it’s just a FP? What do you guys think?
Don’t worry, I won’t go into a “deep discussion” about this, because I’m ALMOST 100% sure this is a FP.
All right, I think I’ve posted to much in this thread and I’m having no malware trouble or anything right now.
So yeah, I won’t be posting in this topic anymore.
