Virus in Flash Drive hides all the files, tried MCShield but cleaning failed?

@magna

You’re so generous, I noted that you mentioned Windows as operating system a lot like it is the whole problem after all :slight_smile: (Kidding :wink: ), from your experience, do you think due to the security holes in Windows that it is the best OS for malware creators to begin with.

What do you say about other OSs like Linux and Linux based ones, do they have the same amount of the security holes like Windows?

Should I move to Linux or Linux based system to avoid that.

...do you think due to the security holes in Windows that it is the best OS for malware creators to begin with.
Yes. Everything popular is becoming a subject of abuse. The goal of a malware writer is to make money.
What do you say about other OSs like Linux and Linux based ones, do they have the same amount of the security holes like Windows?

Windows is very keen to protect their OS. As soon as they find a security hole next week you have patch for it.
In Unix everything is on a voluntary basis. For someone to wrote a patch for a Unix security hole, they are doing it on a voluntary basis, so they are not so up to date.

Some last tests show that fully patched Windows 8 (with all it’s updates, etc.) and people who are looking for security holes, they have been found only about ~ 110 holes in Windows 8.
Latest updated Ubuntu, they have been found ~ 2,000 security vulnerabilities.

Windows in core is fortress opposed to Unix-based systems.
People think that Linux is malware “free” because they have the root admin rights but this is not true.
Linux is “free” of malware because malware writers can’t earn on Unix system.
Think abaut it: why should they try a month to write some good malicious code for Linux when they can earn 10x more on Windows based malware.

What do you say about other OSs like Linux and Linux based ones, do they have the same amount of the security holes like Windows?
if the malware creators where looking, they would most likely find lots of security holes there also but they fish in the biggest pond with most fish in where the chanse fore somone taking the bait is a lot bigger and the biggest pond is Windows OS and all malware today is about money....

If Windows patches its security holes this fast, why do we have anti virus and anti malwares, I mean if there is a new virus that take advantage from new discovered security hole, the virus will affect one computer Windows will know about it and then patches it quickly and stop the virus spreading to other computer with no need to antivirus.

Is the problem in this simplicity or it is far more complicated?

it is more complicated…

http://www.howstuffworks.com/virus.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus
http://www.securelist.com/en/
http://blog.sucuri.net/
https://blog.avast.com/

If Windows patches its security holes this fast, why do we have anti virus and anti malwares, I mean if there is a new virus that take advantage from new discovered security hole, the virus will affect one computer Windows will know about it and then patches it quickly and stop the virus spreading to other computer with no need to antivirus.

It doesn’t work that way. Malware is able to stay undetected for years and all that time perpetrating malicious act or just waiting for hackers sign to use it for DDoS attack for example.
(that’s if you read on internet that some computer virus turns your computer into zombie. They meant to sey that, but even they did not understand what are they writing)

Or to let’s say if the purpose of malware is to crouched and waiting for the command of the owner malware. The malware purpose is to keep working properly and to stay undetected.

Without AV and AM programs, you would not know you were infected, would not have your’s privacy, someone from the outside could control your computer, steal your personal /banking information or simply they would get illegal profit. Google it what malware colled Rogue (fake AV’s) doing actually to better understand.

Antivirus is here to protect you. This is the first & required step of malware protection.

Is the problem in this simplicity or it is far more complicated?

Unfortunately, as I and Pondus wrotes, it is not that simple. The story is far more complicated and you can not understand it so quickly.

Thank you magna86 and Pondus for all the help, support and the precious time you gave me in explaining the problem reasons to me :slight_smile: .