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

[neal at mnopltd.com]

Thanks muchly.

The bootable Kaspersky found nothing.

I renamed the folder with the OfficeClickToRun.exe.  Still 100% disk 
busy.  rebooted.

It ran badly, but barely enough to download/install Malwarebytes and run 
that. Which found 42 files apparently related to one malware and 
quarantine.  Rebooted again.

Still sluggish, but slightly better.  Was able to download/install Avast 
and do a deep scan, which took overnight, but found nothing.

The patient is now booting reasonably ok with low disk usage.

My working theory is that with only 6GB, the original virus got the disk 
so busy that the MS Antimalware scan was never able to complete, and was 
always running, making the disk even more busy.

regards,

Neal

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
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> 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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> Cc: neal at mnopltd.com
> 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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