On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 13:52:07 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 15:11:53 -0600, Gordon wrote:

I have been having some problems with my HP Pavilion, running Windows
8.1. It seemed to be loaded up with trash and other forms of malware.
I bought an on-line copy of Malwarebites, installed it and ran it this
morning. Everything went very well and most of the problems seem to
have been eradicated...but, I keep getting a pop-up saying,

There was a problem starting
C:\Gordon\ApData\Local\ARCADE~1\CATHEL~1.DLL
The specified module could not be found.

What is causing this, and how can I get rid of it?

Thanks, Gordon

The "i" in Malwarebytes is actually a "y", BTW.

Somewhere your Windows is starting a program that wants to run that dll
file. A dll file is a secondary file (a library file) that is a separate
part of an executable program.

You would need to find the name of the program. Presumably it's in a
directory whose name starts with ARCADE (if you're lucky, there's only
one such directory), in a subfolder whose name starts with CATHEL. Some
of the letters in those names will probably be lower case, which doesn't
matter to Windows, so you needn't worry about it.

So go to one of your program folders or to C:\Gordon\AppData\Local\ to
help you identify the offending program. Note that AppData has two p's.

Except I'm guessing that the odds are that the program is not there any
more, just a fossil in your startup axis. So take it out of your startup
axis, or if it's actually something you want, reinstall it to fix
whatever is broken.

Let's hope it's not malware.

I tried but couldn't find anything that I could identify with this
problem pop up. Would running Windows Defender likely help with this?