[GeneralHiggs]

I downloaded ePSXe from Vimm's Lair and scanned it with VirusTotal and it got one hit from a obscure virus scanner and I ruled it must be a false positive, I scanned it with my anti-virus McAfee and it said it was completely safe. So I installed it and now I get random prompt from a CMD Application called SelfDestruct.bat. I have scanned this file McAfee and virus total, it comes back saying its safe. I was afraid of its name because it is sound malicious but on the other hand I was not sure if I should delete because maybe it could be harmless and with legitimate purpose. So I did the next best thing, I found the file on my PC and renamed the file extension to .bak for backup and now it has disappeared from my PC. Is selfdestruct.bat malware?

 

[masta.g.86]

ePSXe doesn't include any batch files. It must have been packed in by someone. Batch files (.BAT) are command line scripts that are usually used to carry out a series of commands automatically. I hope you didn't run it and/or Windows prevented it from running. Personally, I would delete that copy of ePSXe.

You should always stick to downloading programs from the official source whenever possible. https://www.epsxe.com/

 

[dpence]

if it is a true bat file you can open it in notepad and see what it is doing ..... regardless you can run an online scanner to make sure
https://www.eset.com/us/home/online-scanner/