ALERT: HotFixInstaller.exe MALWARE!
This piece of garbage went right past the defences of both Norton 360 6.0 and Malwarebytes’ on my test computer. Comes under the guise of “Hot Iron Hotfix”. If you see this under your processes, in my case it was consuming a good amount of resources, TERMINATE it immediately as well as another sister process name (pretty long) starting with the letter “d” that works hand-in-hand with it. wuauclt.exe trojan may also be at play. There is considerable aftermath with this infection. I am in the process of purging it right now - - will have more updates of specific areas to cleanse soon. Wanted to at least warn the community. From research, it appears that I am not the only one to have had a “run in” with this “Hot Iron” nonsense. Attention all Norton/Symantec Employees- please update N360’s definitions to reflect HotFixInstaller.exe as crimeware.
Thanks,
H.B.