Well, finally I just got tired and took the chance: made a restoration point, backed up the registry entries and the 'whferic' file, and deleted them. No sign of problems and, fortunately, the cmd...

No doubt you're correct; start clean and over will surely make problem go away. But that was not the key of this post; what I'm trying to figure out is what the heck is this little 'whferic' thing....

The problem with this one is that it isn't just when booting up; it randomly continues to pop up. Twice an hour, on average. Doesn't seem to matter what I'm up to: surfing the web, playing Civ V,...

Nothing found by Win Defender, nor by Kaspersky or VirusTotal.com.


Win Update indicates everything is up-to-date. Unfortunately, I don't have an image prior to installing qbittorrent...

Hi, folks.
I'm having an issue with a CMD window flashing now and then. I reinstalled my whole computer a few days ago and had some issues with viruses when downloading a torrent. I could deal with...