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Well, I’m just going to throw this out there…I think that the malware/worm/trogan/virus is emedding itself into all exe files on my flash drive (from the infected laptop). I’ll do my best to explain clearly what I did. The laptop, in question, is my mothers laptop. She, and my father, just came to my house last night, to spend the holidays with my wife and child. Before I allowed her to join my home network wifi, I told her that I want to scan her laptop as she’s been fighting with viruses as long as I have. I think her laptop is the original source of MY viruses. Anyways, I used MY Desktop PC and downloaded all fresh new exe files of: SecurityCheck, Farbar Scanner, HiJackThis, etc, etc. I put them all on a small USB Flash Drive from my Desktop PC. I disconnected the Flash Drive from my PC and plugged it into her laptop. I copied all the files from the Flash Drive to her Desktop. I ran each one, one at a time, and started gathering the log files. I attempted to copy the log files from her laptop (I had all the log files under the C root directory) to the Flash Drive, but received Write Protect error. Curious about the error, I disconnected the Flash Drive from her laptop and hooked it back to my Desktop PC. That’s when MCShield popped up with those messages. I made 2 additional attempts (different EXE files each time) and continued to receive the same results. The strange thing to me is that I installed MCShield on her Laptop, but I don’t get any Malware notice when I put the Flash Drive on her Laptop. It only pops up on my Desktop as malware. Anyways, I’d really like to get those log files and post them here for you to check out, but not sure how to safely do that. Do you have any suggestion?
NOTE: about 2 months ago, she had her laptop get worked on by a computer tech to remove malware/viruses. I noticed, last night, that the tech didn’t do ANY clean up as there are about 20 different Virus Scanners/Removal Tools throughout her file system and registry. It’s extremely messy and not sure where I should begin.