trojan in Acer recovery software

[squeakyknees]

I recently bought an Acer 5250 BZ479 laptop I immediately made the recovery discs and installed Security Essentials (The McAfee trial wouldn't activate)
It acted strangely so I reloaded via the recovery discs. Same results. I installed Spybot and the scan came up clean twice. I finally reloaded it from the recovery partition. This time I tried Panda's free edition from the cloud. It came up with a trojan, Deldir.A It was found in C:\Windows\System32\OEM\CLEANUP.CMD and C:\Windows\System32\OEM\CLEANUP_MLP.CMD I had to manually remove the two files as there doesn't appear to be a fix yet.
Today I saw on Code Wars show that pcs being made in China were being sent here with trojans insertesd in the OEM software. This computer was made in China so be aware of this issue in Acer laptops. I didn't find the trojan anywhere in my desktop which I built myself.

MCP MCDST CompTIA IT Tech

[jdeb]

Create a Microsoft System Sweeper disc from a clean computer. Boot this disc in the infected computer to clean. It is available in 64bit or 32bit, match to your OS.

Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta | Microsoft Connect

[glc]

Are you sure it isn't a legitimate file?

[jdeb]

Right. The cleanup cmd is a file used by the manufacture that installed the operating system.

Better to be safe than sorry. I do not think there is an issue. In my opinion, most new laptops act flaky until you get rid of the bloated software and completely remove the trial software. I use decrapifier and CCleaner.

[squeakyknees]

The trojan file discovered was Deldir.A within those files, not the cleanup cmd themselves

[glc]

The majorgeeks.com forums say that this is a false detection by Panda.