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Sammy Kirotwa
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So, a while ago I gave my brother my external hard drive to transfer some games from his PC to a friend's. After the exchange, as usual, I had to run a virus scan to remove potentially harmful stuff. And the scan surprisingly found like 100+ viruses affecting over 27k files. So I tried disinfecting the hard drive, but the Windows Security scanner could not remove them after hours of waiting. So I looked in the community for answers and found a potentially useful tool, the Microsoft Safety Scanner. So I downloaded it, run a full scan and tried removing the viruses, but no luck. I then rebooted my PC into safe mode, ran another full scan and tried the same but still, the viruses are still torturing me.
Now sometimes my antivirus just turns itself off for some reason and when I try turning it back on it just quits unexpectedly. I end up restarting for it to turn back on but only for a few minutes. I am afraid I might have to format the whole Hard drive just to get rid of the virus but in the process I will have to lose all my data (Approx. 2TB of data)
Can someone help me? Is there something I'm missing here? I need to deal with this before the viruses completely take over my PC....
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Now sometimes my antivirus just turns itself off for some reason and when I try turning it back on it just quits unexpectedly. I end up restarting for it to turn back on but only for a few minutes. I am afraid I might have to format the whole Hard drive just to get rid of the virus but in the process I will have to lose all my data (Approx. 2TB of data)
Can someone help me? Is there something I'm missing here? I need to deal with this before the viruses completely take over my PC....
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