This is the updater scheduled task run by the Ask.com branded toolbar that runs every 24 hours and suggests updates to the browser add-on (and the web browser) and will perform automatic updates to the toolbar with new functionality. The executable updatetask.exe has been detected as malware by 35 anti-virus scanners. It runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler triggered daily at a specified time. Infected by an entry-point obscuring polymorphic file infector which will create a peer-to-peer botnet and receives URLs of additional files to download.