I ended up doing system restore. It fixed the temporary profile issue… but now my keyboard won’t work. Wired Microsoft 400. It tried reinstalling the driver when logged in but it failed. Mouse works fine. Tried looking up the driver but it only leads me to the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center. Any ideas? Using on screen keyboard now.
The quick scan does memory , load points , all heuristic scans that the full scan does and all common malware locations .
I have never needed the full scan to remove the malware I am researching and have not even run one on any of my research machines this year .
quote Ron Lewis Forum Community Manager
Every known location where Malware can run and continue to infect you is scanned in a Quick Scan. Having non active Malware in a folder or zip file is of no threat unless you launch it and it's an actual installer for the Malware. Even being Malware but not an installer would still probably be of minimal risk in most cases.
Should you run a Full Scan. Well probably at least once at some point if for nothing else than to give you an added feeling of safety but again, this is typically what an Anti-Virus product is designed to do. They locate orphaned or non active Malware and remove them as part of their system scans.
Ron Lewis
quote Ron Lewis Forum Community Manager
There's nothing wrong with running the Full Scan as it does no harm, it just takes longer. I do recall this being addressed once by one of MBAM's developers where they said something to the effect that the Full Scan is there because some users would demand it, based on the idea that MBAM is like every other file scanner out there, which clearly it is not.
In my opinion, the Full Scan option should be removed. If you notice post #9 is from Bruce Harrison, one of MBAM’s primary malware researchers and one of the creators of Malwarebytes’ detection database. The .01% would be dormant traces, such as those that might be contained within a System Restore point, which should not be disinfected by any scanner as it would likely render the restore point useless. A better method for that type of cleanup would be to disable System Restore, reboot, turn System Restore back on then create a clean restore point. But again, anything in SR would be dormant, not active.
You might want to strongly consider doing frequent full disk image backups of your system, now that everything is working.
There are 1 TB removable hard drives now that sell for less than $100 US. There are many good disk imaging programs to choose from, some of them are free.
Good insurance to have in situations like this. As you know, things can and eventually will go wrong.
Note on Techsupportalert for Seagate and WD users:
Owners of Seagate hard drives are eligible to download and use the Seagate Disk Wizard tools. Disk Wizard is essentially a slimmed down version of Acronis True Image that is available for free.
Owners of Western Digital hard drives also have a great option for disk imaging. Western Digital offers the Acronis True Image WD Edition which is much the same as what Seagate offers to its users.
I personally prefer the paid “Image for Windows” from Terabyte…$39 US and has never failed me.