Command prompt window appears and disappears even when i am doing other stuff

[shiva20587]

Hello,
Command prompt window appears and disappears , I mean it runs itself,it opens up and closes as quickly as it popped up,it happens while I surf the internet or leave the computer idle for sometime. Is this a sign of some kind of malware?? I scan my computer regularly with microsoft essentials and later I switched to kaspersky, I never found any virus. I use windows 7 OS.

 

[laidlaws]

Hello,
I am experiencing the same problem and managed to take a screenshot of the CP window.
it is here: http://imgur.com/bOznhDG
any ideas?

It is saying that the system can't find various files. My Windows 10 just started doing the same thing. I will run scannow.

 

[laidlaws]

I ran sfc /scannow. At first, Windows Resource Protection could not run. I rebooted into Safe mode, and sfc /scannow ran to completion with no errors. But the prompt window is still coming up. I managed to read half of it. It is the same message as in the screenshot. Malwarebytes found nothing.

 

[BBLCK1]

Hi, I made account to follow this thread. I am experiencing same issue on a laptop that had just had it's HDD "clean" in diskpart command prompt, then clean installed Windows 10 from usb.
The flashes of command prompt are too quick for me to read or react to. it has happened abut 10 times and when it happens the tool bar disappears briefly.
It is kinda disconcerting . I shouldn't have and viruses because I'll I've downloaded is windows updates, avast and malware bytes and ran scans. Thanks, I hope someone finds out.

 

[AndyCSK]

Hi, I encounter this kind of pop-ups periodically as well, but it happens so quickly that there's no time to snap a screenshot or even read it at all.
Is there not some kind of "line by line" record of what the computer is doing? Or at least a log for command line activity?

 

[fzamora1777]

Hello,
Command prompt window appears and disappears , I mean it runs itself,it opens up and closes as quickly as it popped up,it happens while I surf the internet or leave the computer idle for sometime. Is this a sign of some kind of malware?? I scan my computer regularly with microsoft essentials and later I switched to kaspersky, I never found any virus. I use windows 7 OS.

I was having the same problem today after upgrading to windows 10. The way I found the app was by using my Galaxy S4 phone and recording a video to wait on the pop up. Once I saw the pop up I replayed the video and after many attempts paused it right on the pop up. The command window displayed the path to the culprit app. In my case it pointed to C:\users\zamoragues\AppData\local\ArcadeGiant.... I coulldn't read the full path but It gave me enough information to know that the culprit was ArcadeGiant.. I then logged in as zamoragues, which is one of the accounts on my box. Sure enough there was an app that someone installed, probably my grandson. Apparently it had an updater.exe that it was calling. I went to Programs and Features found Arcade Giant and uninstalled it and now my issue is resolved. In your case it may be a totally different app. Just record a video of your screen and wait until it pops up. Then replay it and try to get the path of the culprit. Then you can uninstall the app. I know I am replying to a post from 2013 but hopefully it will help someone else out. Cheers.

 

[AndyCSK]

I was having the same problem today after upgrading to windows 10. The way I found the app was by using my Galaxy S4 phone and recording a video to wait on the pop up. Once I saw the pop up I replayed the video and after many attempts paused it right on the pop up. The command window displayed the path to the culprit app. In my case it pointed to C:\users\zamoragues\AppData\local\ArcadeGiant.... I coulldn't read the full path but It gave me enough information to know that the culprit was ArcadeGiant.. I then logged in as zamoragues, which is one of the accounts on my box. Sure enough there was an app that someone installed, probably my grandson. Apparently it had an updater.exe that it was calling. I went to Programs and Features found Arcade Giant and uninstalled it and now my issue is resolved. In your case it may be a totally different app. Just record a video of your screen and wait until it pops up. Then replay it and try to get the path of the culprit. Then you can uninstall the app. I know I am replying to a post from 2013 but hopefully it will help someone else out. Cheers.

[/quotemsg]

Thanks for your input. Probably will take some time with the cell phone on the ready to hit that window, but I shall try it. Anyway, it's the only practical measure I've heard thus far....

 

[Ripper_X]

I am running into this problem as well after doing a fresh install of windows 10 from windows 7. Here is a screenshot of what my CMD says.

http://postimg.org/image/thxqa6fyv/

 

[b3nderkr3w]

First time its happened to me just now as I was installing a poker software (I've used in the past before). By the time I thought to screenshot it, it disappeared but I caught " [something not working...] please contact..." then some random person's email address popped up. Maybe it said a Chris or something but had a name. W-T-F...🙁

 

[Hellfire13]

temp solution for gamers while playing games...

open msconfig...
go to services tab...
check the box "Hide all Microsoft services"...
click "Disable all"...
click Apply/ok...

 

[Flip up]

if you do "shady" things on the internet, then you could of course be infected. keep Task Manager open to the Processes tab and monitor it to see what's popping in or out when the CP appears. If you can't figure it out, a fresh install of windows after deleting the partition it's on is the only way to be 100% clean.

That is radical advice when you are not even sure what is causing the problem. Could be an update not installing properly.