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

[neal at mnopltd.com]

Thanks.  I flashed the Kaspersky linux rescue image to a USB and booted 
that.  Nothing found thus far.  I shall run those two below next.

On 2021-11-05 12:42, Allen Beddingfield via Ale wrote:
> I've found that the combination of running Malwarebytes first, then
> installing/running the free version of Avast is pretty effective.
> 
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> Office of Information Technology
> The University of Alabama
> Office 205-348-2251
> allen at ua.edu
> 
> 
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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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