Atlas Boy

Thank you so much! I don't know what the clean tool is, so I'm sure it has not been run. I'll reinstall tomorrow and get the files back. Once I restore the files from quarantine I'll copy the entire ZIP file to a PC I don't care about. I'll run mbam again on the main PC to pick the zip's up again and quarantine them. I'll plan to unzip on the 2nd PC, pull the files out of the zip that I need, and then run mbam on that PC to see if the MS Office files are infected, or just something in the ZIP. Hopefully I'll end up with clean documents that I can move back over to the main PC. If the doc's are infected, I guest I have ALOT of typing to do. Thanks again for everyones help. Atlas.

Hey noknojon. Yes the files were flagged as infected. They were .ZIP files that contained MS Office files as well as something that MWB flagged. They were identified and quarantined 2 days ago. They show in the MWB log as being quarantined. Sometime yesterday another user (using the same WIndows logon) uninstalled MWB for reasons unknown. Best I can tell, she thought it was a fake.security virus and removed it. I need to recover them if at all possible and retrieve the MS office docs from the .ZIP's. I have an unused PC (thats not critical) we can move them to so I can uunzip, retrieve the docs, and scan again to make sure they are clean before I move them back to the main system. I'm also wondering how this happened. Is it possible for a virus to get included with a ZIP (using WINZIP version 12) when we zip'ed the documents? There were a total of 2279 objects identified by MWB during the scan. Much of it was ad-ware, but it also had many rouges, fakes, security fakes, etc. Once we rebooted the PC after removal, the system was very slow. It's still very sluggish taking a long time to reboot and open applications. It had slowed down before the scan / removal but it is worse now. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

I ran a quick scan and removed all items found and rebooted. I ran a second scan, and my system was clean. The files removed in the first scan were shown in the "Quarantine" tab as expected. After some time passed, I releized that some important files were removed in the first scan. Someone had uninstalled Malwarebytes in the meantime. Is there any way to get back the files that were quarantined by Malwarebytes before it was ininstalled? Please help...

I ran a quick scan and removed all items found and rebooted. I ran a second scan, and my system was clean. The files removed in the first scan were shown in the "Quarantine" tab as expected. After some time passed, I releized that some important files were removed in the scan. Someone had uninstalled Malwarebytes in the meantime. Is there any way to get back the files that were quarantined by Malwarebytes before it was ininstalled? Please help...