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PennyAmora
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trojan worm keeps using the resources on all my pcs, it started last year when someone tried to pull my files out ui says it's still there, but you dig deeper you find all files are 68 kb and r ghosted. I did avoid the ransom end by deleting my account (I was getting emailed asking me if I was ready to be rid of my new pest problem) then my PC was part ofn a work group he was admin of, with about 200 others, I did a lot of digging, it always goes undetected by AV software and scans, and assumes admin privileges so you can't alter it's uac. I ended up deleting the entire operating system including recovery factory partition (yep), and that pc still works fine with a USB drive acting as file history and recovery, but I bought my self a new one at Xmas, put my account on it (mind you I had not heard at all from malware all year, and new PC promptly installed operating system on recovery drive and was not able to update. HP did a return, but I suspected the virus imported to new pc, though I did turn sharing off. So new pc now has complete new account, all photos in cloud, so I never downloaded any associated software except mccaffy, Its been a month or so now, and for fun I pulled up resource monitor last week and see it using four gigs of ram at idle, and I don't have much going on, spotify is all I run usually, Then my daughter says the laptop I got her for xmas wont stream you tube (that's literally all she does with it) though I did register and put mcaffy on there for her, all she did was open edge and go to you tube, nothing else. well her little pc when I started looking was a 90 percent memory usage and processor was 70, in the event logs it throwing warning and critical admin logs multiple ntime per second, so I reset windows and browser, but its still here, I can tell bc it always makes edge turn to explorer 10 I think, and has wild tangent games, priceline, com amazon bookmarked. That was on an old laptop in 2009 that the babies used to play with. no matter how many times I uninstall it comes back, shredder wont finish it either. I would manually change name of folder and delete before it protects itself, but I cant find where it is. I have a general idea, windows\user\temp or app data, but thts mixed with aloth of important I assume sys32 files, and in don't know much to be messin with restriced files. this is fourth pc this worm is in, and while I can keep them going, they don't perform well with a third of the resources being siphoned off. What sould I do just buy a mac? I have done 100s of password changes and created new accounts. I did recover the old account a few months back just to see what happened and the last page it was on was the dev\uwp site, with about 150 open tabs, most about how to get paid for apps in store, having money sent to Uganda etc. While there I inquired to moderator if someone had used my account for some nefarious purpose, and was told that's the wrong place to ask this question (which seems opposite to me but, I was also told by Microsoft, mcaffy and hp that I don't have any malware, to which I reply brig your laptop to my house and log onto my wifi. so far no one is willing lol
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