Has anyone run into a compromised download of avast_one_essential_setup_online.exe?? If so, did you remedy it’s effects? How?
My friend downloaded it onto his recently acquired laptop (from a deceased sister) along with other avast install downloads. He was having trouble getting it to install and asked me for help. I tried to install a download named just and had trouble, so I was just looking at his downloads directory, saw this “avast_one_essential_setup_online.exe” and without thinking (or investigating) ran it. It ran showing 100%, then seconds later started another process and one second in, bang, system crash. I have been unable to boot since.
I have since googled the name and found a reference on a site called “https://any.run/report” which I believe is a project out of sourceforge, that reports malicious behavior of “removes files from windows directory”. I believe that is my problem now, because I have reinstalled windows from recovery and it boots and runs fine. Also, the old uefi is fine, but once it points to c:windows to run - nothin!
If you recovered from this, what files did you have to put into your windows directory to enable boot?