Hello,
This has happened for the second time!
I transfer files and directories between two computers via a USB drive. All files that were not in directories were turned into exe files as wll as two directories with the names of '11' and '12' (named after the classes of my students).
Please, help.
[OT] Virus turns files and folders into exe?
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Hello, ismanpa.
MVV is right. Your system has been infected by some malware. Cf. virus creates a .EXE file for each folder name. It leads here: Virus Issue foldername.exe
Please, clean your machine and mark this thread with [Total Commander acquitted].
Cheers,
Karl
MVV is right. Your system has been infected by some malware. Cf. virus creates a .EXE file for each folder name. It leads here: Virus Issue foldername.exe
Please, clean your machine and mark this thread with [Total Commander acquitted].
Cheers,
Karl
Hello,
Thank you everyone.
Arira found viruses; Malwarebytes too as well as ClamWin (the last one only reported they were inaccessible otherwise the files were the same in all three)(Sadly, Emsisoft Emergency Kit did not detect the flash drive).
I monitor my computers regularly and there has been no report about anything mal...
I have noticed that this happened before once too after using the flash drive on a Linux Mint machine which is very strange. I will keep watching this.
The drive is now formatted.
Thank you all for the help!
Thank you everyone.
Arira found viruses; Malwarebytes too as well as ClamWin (the last one only reported they were inaccessible otherwise the files were the same in all three)(Sadly, Emsisoft Emergency Kit did not detect the flash drive).
I monitor my computers regularly and there has been no report about anything mal...
I have noticed that this happened before once too after using the flash drive on a Linux Mint machine which is very strange. I will keep watching this.
The drive is now formatted.
Thank you all for the help!
Hello, IsManPa,
you tell that several AV products detected malware on your machine. but you do not say that the same AV products cleaned the machine, i.e. reported success on eliminating the malware.
As the malware has infected the machine, it will not go away on its own accord. It must be removed.
Cleaning the affected pendrive alone is not sufficient. The malware is still lurking somewhere and the symptoms will return confirming the infection has not been cured.
And I highly doubt that it was a Linux Mint system which brought the malware to your pendrive. Unless, well, unless, someone managed to make a Windows malware function properly on Wine and provided the Linux Mint machine had Wine in use.
Cheers,
Karl
you tell that several AV products detected malware on your machine. but you do not say that the same AV products cleaned the machine, i.e. reported success on eliminating the malware.
As the malware has infected the machine, it will not go away on its own accord. It must be removed.
Cleaning the affected pendrive alone is not sufficient. The malware is still lurking somewhere and the symptoms will return confirming the infection has not been cured.
And I highly doubt that it was a Linux Mint system which brought the malware to your pendrive. Unless, well, unless, someone managed to make a Windows malware function properly on Wine and provided the Linux Mint machine had Wine in use.
Cheers,
Karl
Ok, Karl 
If you had put a smiley after it, I would have guessed it perhaph
I have found the cause of infection: I gave the drive to a colleague of mine to copy it.
Sorry for the trouble!
If you had put a smiley after it, I would have guessed it perhaph
I have found the cause of infection: I gave the drive to a colleague of mine to copy it.
Sorry for the trouble!
karlchen wrote:Hi, ismanpa.
The request to mark Total Commander acquitted was merely a joke.
So kindly ignore it.
Cheers,
Karl