Today I kept getting the message “Do you want the following program to make changes to this computer?” over the file WatAdminSvc. When I first saw it, I clicked no, but it kept popping up over and over again. I had looked it up and found out it was part of Windows to verify if the software is valid, but I wasn’t sure if Windows ran this all the time or only during registration. I also wasn’t sure why it was asking to make changes all of the sudden.
After several of these message popups, I accidentally clicked “Yes”, and it wasn’t long afterwards that Avast had a popup warning that it blocked something. I went to check the log, but I didn’t see one for the Network Shield, although most of the other shields had a “shield log”. I eventually found the nshield log under the Avast folder in ProgramData. The log has "Network Shield: blocked access to malicious site h ttp://29291.adlinker.net/pro.html?i=116664_2722643717 [C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe (4192)]. It’s the last part that got me worried because all the other past items in the network log were showing as coming from IEXPLORER.EXE, but this was from cmd.exe and from the System32 folder where Wat/WatAdminSvc.exe was located. I also got another warning with blocked access to site: h ttp:fitnesspossible.com/?plex=8412 [C:\Windows\explorer.exe (3984)]
I’m using Windows 7, and Avast 7.0.1474. By the way, an Avast and Malwarebytes scan did not find anything. Note: I separated the ‘h’ in http in the link above because it had formed a hyperlink.
Click on the link above to be taken to Unchecky.com
click the very large Download button.
click Save
Click Open folder
Right click on the Unchecky_setup and choose to Run as Administrator
Once open click the Install button.
Then click on Finish
Unchecky is now installed and will help you keep unwanted check boxes unchecked, this is a fire and forget programme
It is critical to have both a firewall and anti virus to protect your system and to keep them updated.
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