Gvtemp Folder in Local C:\

[Strayan_Hades]

Hi,

 

Just been cleaning up my computer from all unwanted files with nothing important in them, but have come across a Gvtemp folder which I've deleted and restart my Pc and its back.

 

Is it malware/virus or apart of windows?

 

Cheers.

[Arty]

Well What google brings up doens't seem to good for you

https://www.google.com/search?q=Gvtemp&oq=Gvtemp&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8#safe=off&q=Gvtemp+folder

*cough* which you should have tried first *cough*

[manikyath]

so... i hope you googled it, and saw the first page of google is all about malware/trojans right?

 

disinfect the hell out of that...

[Strayan_Hades]

Well What google brings up doens't seem to good for you

https://www.google.com/search?q=Gvtemp&oq=Gvtemp&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8#safe=off&q=Gvtemp+folder

*cough* which you should have tried first *cough*

Yeah ikr, its just very sketch and no google results.

[Arty]

so... i hope you googled it, and saw the first page of google is all about malware/trojans right?

 

disinfect the hell out of that...

Nuke The PC

Nuke ALL YOUR USBS

Backup everything important to the cloud

cause the is a usb Tranimatable virus. 

[Strayan_Hades]

so... i hope you googled it, and saw the first page of google is all about malware/trojans right?

 

disinfect the hell out of that...

ok haha, got to do it the manual way

[Strayan_Hades]

Nuke The PC

Nuke ALL YOUR USBS

Backup everything important to the cloud

cause the is a usb Tranimatable virus. 

Can't tell if trolling... but anyway thanks for the advice

[Arty]

Can't tell if trolling... but anyway thanks for the advice

im serious..........clearly you didn't google it .........

[manikyath]

Can't tell if trolling... but anyway thanks for the advice

he is trolling with the nuke.

 

he is not trolling with how serious this is.

[Strayan_Hades]

im serious..........clearly you didn't google it .........

Well I did lol.

[Strayan_Hades]

he is trolling with the nuke.

 

he is not trolling with how serious this is.

ok ill get started then.

[Arty]

he is trolling with the nuke.

 

he is not trolling with how serious this is.

Just in case he doesn't know

"nuke" means

Basically means wipe the drive and reinstall windows.

in this case, preferable from a disc. 

[Strayan_Hades]

Just in case he doesn't know

"nuke" means

Basically means wipe the drive and reinstall windows.

in this case, preferable from a disc. 

Lol, I'll see what I can do before reinstalling windows...

[Strayan_Hades]

https://www.quora.com/Folders-in-my-pendrive-appear-as-shortcuts-when-connected-to-my-PC-What-is-the-problem

 

Current website following removal

[Strayan_Hades]

Strange malwarebytes and Bitdefender havent picked it up..

[Strayan_Hades]

Well I doesn't look like its spread to my laptop or to my external hdd so that a positive.

[Strayan_Hades]

All good everyone just reinstalled windows. An I believe I obtained this virus/malware from looking at someones HDD I connected to my Pc that they needed to recovery data from so I blame them from spreading this STD.

 

Cheers. 

[jhen]

I too saw this folder on my C drive and began investigating. didnt find much online but I did find this forum. These are the steps I took;

 

used my USB drive on my 2nd PC running windows 7 64bit (same as my main rig) and on my 3rd pc running win8.1

gvtemp folder has not shown up on either of those pc's

 

THEN

I nuked the USB and both drives on my main rig (ssd and storage Hdd)

I installed fresh win7 64bit

I installed drivers and hardware utilities....

gvtemp shows up again.

 

I then scan both pc drives and the USB with Norton360, kapersky, and malwarebites, all 3 found nothing

 

I then clicked pretty much every google result for gvtemp folder for the first 3 pages of google and found a forum in chinese or something where someone posted that this folder is created by gigabyte OC guru ii utility. Well I just so happen to have installed that for my 980ti windforce.

 

 

ps) the trojans associated with the gv name are discribed as doing things like editing your host file with like 200 extra lines to block or misdirect web traffic or something, my host file is unedited and only has like 20 lines in it. Other malware associated with the gv name were discribed as a "shortcut virus" and my usb was not showing any shortcuts.

[cr8k]

GvTemp is created in the c drive every time OC guru II executes, - it is not malicious.

[pottsyy]

Fucking lol'd