Trojan in a OneNote Notebook

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hello!
I kept getting notifications that there was a Trojan detected in one of my OneNote Notebook sections. I deleted the affected section from my computer and after repairing all the fallout it caused my computer is finally (fingers crossed) back to normal. However, when I went to download my notebook from the cloud and back to my pc, I again got the warning about the Trojan. So it seems I did not delete the correct file. I’m wondering if there is some way to determine what link, picture, text, etc. EXACTLY is causing the issue so that I can remove it safely from the cloud and then download my notebook again. I can’t figure out how to do that. I would really appreciate any help. I depend one my OneNote notebooks for so many things and this has really disrupted me the last 2 days. Here is a copy of the info from Avast:

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Here is a copy of the info from Avast:
Where ?
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Oh sorry! I guess it didn’t attach. I’ll try again.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/oLPJfBP98STdbPdL7

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Attach screenshots to the topic rather than a 3rd party site, many won’t visit.

  • Attaching Images to your post - When you Click the Reply button it opens a text window for you to post your comment (reply or post).
    Click the Preview button, that shows what you have input and expands it to include ‘Attachments and other options’. Click that it further expands, here you can attach images, etc. at the bottom of your post.
    See my attached image, click to expand.
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Thanks for your reply! I didn’t see that option before. I only saw the html editor above the text box and wasn’t sure how to add an image with that. I tried inserting the link to the image but that obviously didn’t work. Here is the error from Avast (I’ll edit the OP to include it as well):

I’m so sorry the image isn’t properly oriented! It looks correct on my pc so I’m not sure why it appears rotated here.

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It may be the size, it is massive.

A .bin file is highly compressed file:

. BIN files are the compressed binary files that are used for varied purposes by many computer applications. It is usually used with certain anti-virus programs and CD and DVD backup image files. Different applications on your system use the binary codes that the BIN files contain.

Though why OneNote.exe file would be opening/running this file is the question.

Are or were you running a Windows desktop App (presumably the OneNote app) at the time ?

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Yes I was using I was using OneNote at the time of the virus notification. OneNote’s cache folder is fully comprised of .bin files. So that in itself isn’t strange. You can see where Avast shows specifically which .bin file contains the virus but I have no idea how to correlate that with a specific note in OneNote.

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I was afraid if I resized it too small it would be hard to read. It’s already difficult to see because I had to take a picture using my phone instead of just taking a screenshot.

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That is probably down to the phones default screen resolution.

Not knowing what your system is, OS, etc. but most Windows versions has a screen capture function, using the PrtSc key.
That said I have a paid screen capture program (there are free versions) that give more configuration than the basic OS one.