Infection? Not Sure

AMDMan2016 · 16 Jul 2020

Windows 10 Home x64 2004 19041.388
Laptop issue
15_ce019dx

Storage Drive
Hitachi

Folder of older ripped CD's, some reason the folder names are changing to ae, ab, bc, etc, and files in there bunch of numbers and then .file ((Folders came back after deletion a second time, deleted fully a second time before i shut down that laptop for the night, and i'll work on it more tomorrrow))

Eset online scan found : Jk.redirector.trojan i think was the name, in C:\Users\AppData\Temp Files area

Ran 2 scans with that so far this evening

Emisoft Emergency Kit

Defender Offline scan

((now scanning other external on main machine with Defender) not hooking up the blue my passport to main machine tonight i don't think, even though deleted the entire music folder ((I have a backup of it on 2 other drives), and deleted it off the Laptops storage drive internally))

Anything else i should do tonight? or save more scans til tomorrow
I know a full scan on Desktop probably recommended, well do that tonight before i sleep

anything else?

AndreTen · 17 Jul 2020

Do you have any music player that could organize your music collection? Think I saw that somewhere before (maybe Spotify - but on downloaded files).

Otherwise for viruses.. Check your processes (process explorer or similar), then AdwCleaner

AMDMan2016 · 17 Jul 2020

Well so far ran Malwarebytes Full Scan--O Detections on any drive on Laptop this time, Eset Online scan again, nothing found that time, Windows Defender full scan--nothing found, ((Still 2 more externals to check though, ran out of power plugs to plug those in at the same time))

Also checked Desktop system early this morning--0 detections in any programs

So thinking maybe all good now

Spotify is installed on Laptop, same as Desktop

AndreTen · 17 Jul 2020

Please post some examples of folders and file names. Better possibility to identify the source

AMDMan2016 · 17 Jul 2020

Will Do asap here, if it does it again, right now it seems to be working as normal at moment, i knew i should've screenshotted the folder, and file names before panicing and deleting the folder lol totally lol.

I'll attempt to see if happens again with adding music folders back to D Drive on Laptop asap best i can do at this point.

AndreTen · 17 Jul 2020

If I remember correctly, it has something to do with Spotify database folder (or syncing downloads..) just point the temp folder away from your music collection

AMDMan2016 · 17 Jul 2020

Will do, and hopefully no more issues, will check on that asap soon as back on Laptop machine, and hopefully all is good after that.

Do know the machine is squeaky clean lol
Ran Eset Online scan again
Full Malwarebytes Scan
Full Defender Scan
ADWcleaner scan
Emisoft Emergency Kit scan

All came across clean, woke up at 6am to get started on all this lol

TairikuOkami · 18 Jul 2020

AMDMan2016 said:

All came across clean, woke up at 6am to get started on all this lol

For the record, it is better to scan computer without Windows to prevent ransomware from spreading.

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In your case I do not think, that is a problem, otherwise your files would be already encrypted and unusable.

AMDMan2016 · 18 Jul 2020

Issue Remains on Laptop Machine, Transferred files from an external not hooked up for a while, and of course problem re occurs, what the heck is this

I really thought this was solved

Really an infection or not an infection?

AMDMan2016 · 20 Jul 2020

Problem back, example posted this time

Me and my weird issues lol