[ale] [EXTERNAL] okay, totally OT - free win 10 virus scan?

[Allen Beddingfield]

I've found that the combination of running Malwarebytes first, then installing/running the free version of Avast is pretty effective.

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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
Office of Information Technology
The University of Alabama
Office 205-348-2251
allen at ua.edu


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From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> on behalf of Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, November 5, 2021 12:33 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [ale] okay, totally OT - free win 10 virus scan?

Helping out a friend.

Win 10 computer shows signs of virus.  100% disk usage, but Task Manager
shows nothing eating up that much.

Resource Monitor shows many copies of OfficeClickToRun.exe.  googleation
suggest this be virus.  Which appears to make many copies of itself.

Thus it would appear that I should find a bootable anti-virus to scan
this computer.

Given I don't want to spend a major portion of my remaining life,
suggestions?   I've used ClamAV in the past.   I don't want to make
things worse by running a virus-scan which is itself a virus.

regards,

Neal
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