swiggity Posted January 29, 2014 ID:784210 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Hi all, I just today took an old hard drive from a laptop that stopped working for reasons long forgotten, and plugged it into my desktop to see what old files I might have on it. I first tried to boot from the disk, but Windows XP crashed when booting, so i assumed it was just that it was the hardware change that was messing it up, and started Windows 7 from my main drive. After booting, microsoft security essentials kept giving popping up with messages about how it had cleaned a detected threat and required no action from me. I scanned the old drive with MSE and Malwarebytes, but MSE was the only program to detect the infection. I tried to clean the infection with MSE, but it seemed to freeze halfway though so I closed it with the task manager and wiped the old laptop drive. I scanned my other drives again with both Malwarebytes, MSE, and the Malwarebytes Anti-rootkit software and everything seems to be coming up clean, no more popups from MSE. While I did open up some folders in the infected drive, I didn't actually try to run any programs from the drive. Could the difference between windows xp and windows 7 be too much for a 3 year old ramnit infection? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff gringo_pr Posted February 6, 2014 Staff ID:787290 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Hello swiggity and welcome to Malwarebytes. The OS would have nothing to do with it and hopefully it was stopped by your antivirus as that can be a nastie infection and in fact to be on the safe side I would go ahead and run an online scanner just to be sure, Eset Online Scanner **Note** You will need to use Internet explorer for this scan - Vista and win 7 right click on IE shortcut and run as admin Go Eset web page to run an online scanner from ESET.Turn off the real time scanner of any existing antivirus program while performing the online scanclick on the Run ESET Online Scanner buttonTick the box next to YES, I accept the Terms of Use.Click StartWhen asked, allow the add/on to be installedClick StartMake sure that the option Remove found threats is untickedClick on Advanced Settings, ensure the optionsScan for potentially unwanted applications, Scan for potentially unsafe applications, and Enable Anti-Stealth Technology are ticked.Click Scanwait for the virus definitions to be downloadedWait for the scan to finishWhen the scan is completeIf no threats were foundput a checkmark in "Uninstall application on close"close programreport to me that nothing was foundIf threats were foundclick on "list of threats found"click on "export to text file" and save it as ESET SCAN and save to the desktopClick on backput a checkmark in "Uninstall application on close"click on finishclose programcopy and paste the report hereGringo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff gringo_pr Posted February 11, 2014 Staff ID:789410 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Hello 48 Hour bump It has been more than 48 hours since my last post.do you still need help with this?do you need more time?are you having problems following my instructions?if after 48hrs you have not replied to this thread then it will have to be closed!Gringo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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