You're thinking of NPMOTIVE (written in CAPS).

The Motive Plugin belongs to to Microsoft Silverlight which is Microsoft's version of Flash. It's often used in videos to protect content which prevents you from downloading the file.

Hi Xircal,

Thanks for your response - greatly appreciated.

Motive shows up in a couple places:

- Program files/Common files/motive: In this folder, NPMOTIVE is not found. When I clicked on the "InstallHelper" it is published by Alcetel-Lucent.

- Program files (x86)/Common files/motive: In this folder there is npMotive.dll, and nothing else.

Does this change your answer any?

Thanks again, Jeff

Most of the file names begin with Mcci

I found this link and it might give you some more information:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1911413

Thanks silkphoenix, I found that too. That's why I originally posted my question - trying to confirm it is malware.

Jeff

All the Google search results seem pointing that way.

See the following:

• http://forums.adobe.com/thread/721103?tstart=0 (scroll down and you'll see it under the heading "Silverlight")
  
  
• http://www.threatexpert.com/files/npctrl.dll.html (references the .dll and shows the path to the file)
  
  
• http://www.xraymypc.com/process/N/npMotive.dll.htm (describes the file and who created it)
  
  
• http://www.motive.com/ (Alcatel-Lucent)
  
  
• http://www.prevx.com/filenames/95476579133440138-X1/NPMOTIVE.DLL.html (the virus version)

Hope this clears up any misunderstandings.

If you still have doubts, upload the file to this site: http://virusscan.jotti.org/en