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

[neal at mnopltd.com]

Thanks.   Given friend's Dell is one of those without a RAM access door, 
I was thinking that the SSD route, while feeling like the cowardly way 
out, is in fact far less drama than a complete disassembly from top to 
the basement to get to the RAM.

regards,

Neal

On 2021-11-08 08:35, Allen Beddingfield via Ale wrote:
> I've gotten to the point that when I do computer work for people,
> replacing their hard drive with an SSD is just an automatic thing to
> do.  I find that 90% of people don't have more than about 10GB of data
> sitting on those slow 500GB and 1TB SATA drives,and I replace them
> with one of the many cheap $20-25 120GB SSDs available on Amazon.
> Occasionally someone will have a little more, and a 240Gb or 480/500GB
> is more appropriate.  Even the large ones are cost effective.  I've
> still got people happily using Core 2 Duo systems for basic work, and
> a LOT of people using really early generation Core i3 systems.  The
> bottleneck is almost always the disk these days, and the cheapest SSD
> is going to be an improvement.
> Allen B.
> 
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> Office of Information Technology
> The University of Alabama
> Office 205-348-2251
> allen at ua.edu
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: neal at mnopltd.com <neal at mnopltd.com>
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> Subject: Re: [ale] [EXTERNAL]  okay, totally OT - free win 10 virus 
> scan?
> 
> 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
>> To: ale at ale.org
>> 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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