Possible Rouge Picasa Installation And Odd Partition

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by hairy leaf driver, Feb 4, 2016.

  1. hairy leaf driver

    hairy leaf driver Private E-2

    The back story..
    Bought a factory refurbished laptop for my wife to use for the household accounts and her hobby business.

    Looking at the history she probably downloaded an installation file from DownloadFree5.com/Picasa but apparently it didn't seem to do anything, she then went on to download an install the real programme from the official site

    The issues..

    The download folder contained a file called Picasa Setup.vhdx which has been impossible to delete

    The PC had a new seemingly very small partition just a few mb in size

    Interestingly although following the steps didn't seem to find any issues after completing the final step and looking at the contents of This PC on the desktop I have noticed that the partition has now disappeared and that it is now possible to delete the Setup.vhdx (although I have left it in the recycle bin incase it is significant).

    I'm not certain if the machine is clean or not and before risking using it for the family accounts and banking we would both appreciate advice from someone more knowing than myself.
     

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    hairy leaf driver, Feb 4, 2016
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  2. dr.moriarty

    dr.moriarty Malware Super Sleuth Staff Member

    Welcome to MajorGeeks,

    Your logs are clean.
    1. We recommend you keep Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for scanning/removal of malware. Unless you purchase it, it provide no protection. It do not use any significant amount of resources ( except a little disk space ) until you run a scan.
    2. Go back to step 6 of the READ ME and re-enable your Disk Emulation software with Defogger if you had disabled it.
    3. If running Vista, Win 7/8 - it is time to make sure you have re-enabled UAC by double clicking on the C:\MGtools\enableUAC.reg file and allowing it to be added to the registry.
    4. Go to add/remove programs and uninstall HijackThis.
    5. Go to the C:\MGtools folder and find the MGclean.bat file. Double click on this file to run this cleanup program that will remove files and folders related to MGtools and some other items from our cleaning procedures.
    6. After doing the above, you should work through the below link:
    Safe surfing! [​IMG]
     
    dr.moriarty, Feb 4, 2016
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  3. hairy leaf driver

    hairy leaf driver Private E-2

    Thank you kindly for you time.
     
    hairy leaf driver, Feb 5, 2016
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  4. dr.moriarty

    dr.moriarty Malware Super Sleuth Staff Member

    You're welcome. :)
     
    dr.moriarty, Feb 6, 2016
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