Strange Box on Desktop

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I am seeing a small box in the lower
right corner of my desktop. It says software download complete with
checkboxes for install now or install later. There is nothing to tell
me where this box originated and I could find nothing in the startup
files that seemed likely to create this. I have run a full scan with
Kaspersky and it found nothing. I would like to get rid of this box as
I think it is probably malware. I wonder if it could be for Windows 10
upgrade but have no way of knowing. Any suggestions?

Shoe wrote:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I am seeing a small box in the lower
right corner of my desktop. It says software download complete with
checkboxes for install now or install later. There is nothing to tell
me where this box originated and I could find nothing in the startup
files that seemed likely to create this. I have run a full scan with
Kaspersky and it found nothing. I would like to get rid of this box as
I think it is probably malware. I wonder if it could be for Windows 10
upgrade but have no way of knowing. Any suggestions?

Information on GWX (Get Windows Ten) and '583 is here.

http://www.howtogeek.com/218856/how-...fication-tray/

However, once the download is done, you will have
about 6GB of files in

C:\$WINDOWS.~BT

If you delete that folder, then you cannot install Windows 10.

If you were to use MediaCreationTool (on purpose) to get
a Windows 10 DVD, that is stored in

C:\$WINDOWS.~WS

You can try cleanmgr.exe to delete those, if you cannot
otherwise figure out a way to clean them out.

But as for the stealth download, you could have tried
"disableGWX" registry addition earlier on. And now, deleting
the folders solves the immediate problem. And you can follow
that with DisableGWX if you want.

Define GWX first.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\Gwx

and then install the control underneath that key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\Gwx
DisableGwx reg_DWORD 1.

To make that into a right-click file, put the four lines
into a text file with a .reg extension, like this,

************* disableGWX.reg *****************
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\GWX]
"DisableGWX"=dword:00000001
************* end disableGWX.reg *****************

and you can Merge that.

(The considered opinion here, is disableGWX is easier than
trying to stop all related updates, one by one...)

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=37740076

Paul

On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:49:56 +0000, Stormin' Norman
wrote:

On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 09:36:18 -0400, Shoe wrote:

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I am seeing a small box in the lower
right corner of my desktop. It says software download complete with
checkboxes for install now or install later. There is nothing to tell
me where this box originated and I could find nothing in the startup
files that seemed likely to create this. I have run a full scan with
Kaspersky and it found nothing. I would like to get rid of this box as
I think it is probably malware. I wonder if it could be for Windows 10
upgrade but have no way of knowing. Any suggestions?

Have you installed any Verizon software or drivers on your machine? Possibly in support of a Samsung phone or
tablet?

Yes, I have installed Verizon software to support my Samsung phone. Is
that what this is about?

On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 09:36:18 -0400, Shoe
wrote:

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I am seeing a small box in the lower
right corner of my desktop. It says software download complete with
checkboxes for install now or install later. There is nothing to tell
me where this box originated and I could find nothing in the startup
files that seemed likely to create this. I have run a full scan with
Kaspersky and it found nothing. I would like to get rid of this box as
I think it is probably malware. I wonder if it could be for Windows 10
upgrade but have no way of knowing. Any suggestions?

It turns out that it is a Verizon update as suggested in one of the
responses. Strange way to show it, with no identification of where it
came from. I clicked on install now and the Windows permission box
came up asking if I wanted to install this software from Verizon.
Thanks for the response.

Shoe wrote:

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I am seeing a small box in the lower
right corner of my desktop. It says software download complete with
checkboxes for install now or install later. There is nothing to tell
me where this box originated and I could find nothing in the startup
files that seemed likely to create this. I have run a full scan with
Kaspersky and it found nothing. I would like to get rid of this box as
I think it is probably malware. I wonder if it could be for Windows 10
upgrade but have no way of knowing. Any suggestions?

Use SysInternals' Process Explorer. Move its window so it does not
obscure the problematic window. Click on the web icon in Process
Explorer's toolbar. Then click on the problematic window. Process
Explorer will highlight which process owns the handle on that window.