Verifying if hkcmd.exe is a false positive

Hello,

I had a run in with some trojans yesterday, and went on a bit of a witch hunt. I think I got everything, but I can't tell if a few things that popped up are legit or not. I opened up hkcmd.exe in notepad, and was horrified to see ~2000 lines of this stuff:

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Am I safe in assuming that it's a virus, or is that normal looking for an Intel file? One of the oddest parts was that way down at the bottom, there was a bit in english, but it said stuff about loading Microsoft runtimes, and copyright Microsoft.. What do you think?

 

Try uploading it to Virustotal and see what they say. It gets scanned by about 32 different products

http://www.virustotal.com/

 

Please send us a copy of this detected file, if it is the hkcmd.exe, then send us a copy of this file:
http://www.ewido.net/en/malware/