Normally I would not post to an old topic myself, but I feel this was not fully answered but this topic does show up quickly in Google searches so thought I would provide more accurate details for...

No need. It is working as expected. I've been doing computer support for 30 years. Was simply thanking you for making the tool that runs PowerShell to fix some settings so one does not need to...

The Downloads folder. But, I do redirect that to a new drive. The other topic with a PowerShell code change works for normal folders but didn't seem to affect the Downloads during an actual download...

All good.

I didn't recall having this issue before with Group By but it does not seem to honor disabling it at least on new installs of Windows 10

Excellent work. Thank you for the tool.

As posted by Maurice Naggar

For your information. In short, disregard that one display window. Only rely on the final result in the log-file itself.
About what you "saw" on intermediate displays...

Open up Windows Defender and check and make sure you don't have any exclusions setup you're not aware of.

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As expected. I'm not sure why the Microsoft scanner came back with that but it was a false positive report.

The computer does not currently show any signs of an infection.

Number of scanned objects: 854705
Number of detections: 0

See, that indicates no infections found.

Please temporarily disable the Real-Time protection of ESET antivirus and run Malwarebytes...

Those have got to be False Positives. Those are file infectors the report is listing. If your computer is truly infected with file infectors then you've a got a huge problem on your hands.

I'm not...

You attached the report already in post #40?

Threats detected by Windows Defender

That log says there are not detections.


Results Summary:
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No infection found.

Data from Wikipedia... your mileage may vary...


CCleaner was originally developed by Piriform (a company acquired by Avast in 2017) and Avast had a past of adding some undesirable features to...

Please go ahead and restart the computer one more time.

Then run the Farbar scanner again and click on the SCAN button.

Then post back as an attachment both new logs

FRST.txt
Addition.txt...

I understand the process. I simply wanted to know what you were expecting to happen or wanted to happen.
Simply deleting that OutlookOST key will make backup programs and VSS copy them.

Your...

From the command line using reg.exe


C:\>reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToSnapshot" /v OutlookOST
...

What is the ultimate goal here? Why are you adding a 1 to the list?

Your version of the Reg file is missing the OutlookOST portion of the key

Do you want the OST files to be backed up?

...

You're a grown person. You can clean a computer any method you choose to do so. If you believe using a boot-cd is the only option that's fine. But the billion-plus computers cleaned via one brand of...

The people on the YouTube thread. Read the comments.

All good. I've been doing Malware removal for Corporations for twenty years and doing it for Malwarebytes now for thirteen years and have not...

Are you still having any signs of an infection appz?

Have you tried the Norton Bootable Recovery disk lately? Many people complain it does not work and their computer did not boot from it. I tried a quick one myself and it did not boot for my computer...

It is the same

C:\>sc qc windefend
[SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS

SERVICE_NAME: windefend
TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
START_TYPE : 2 AUTO_START
...

Please see the following to ensure you meet the requirements

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/bitlocker/bitlocker-overview-and-requirements-faq

And, DO...

Well, I see I'm late to the game but perhaps next time.

The Farbar Service Scanner would have probably been the best tool to originally run so that you could ensure what services were running or...

The alert on the hosts file is a red herring to the issue posted about.

The Farbar logs do not show any of those types of infections or issues.

Perhaps the user has retired for the night but...

No, Microsoft Windows Defender didn't like that BOOT DISK ISO image you downloaded.

The possible hosts files alert is common

Did you restart the system?



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