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Virus on external hard drive
Hey people.
Last night my girlfriend plugged an external/portable hard drive into her Mac OSX and message came up saying there is a virus on the HD. So she unplugged the drive in fear of being infected and shut down the Mac before I could have a look what was said in the message.
So I ran a scan from my laptop with MSE and got the following viruses :
-Trojan:Win32/Orsam!rts
-VirTool:Win32/Obfuscator.C
-Virus:Win32/Virut.BM
-Trojan:Unix/Rootkit.C
(she brings home a lot of media from a network hub at work)
So here is my problemo...
-Trojan:Unix/Rootkit.C - was removed
-Trojan:Win32/Orsam!rts - was quarantined but showed up on 2nd scan
-Virus:Win32/Virut.BM - and - VirTool:Win32/Obfuscator.C - I get this error message from MSE on both scans :
Microsoft Security Essentials encountered the following error: Error code 0x8007065e. Data of this type is not supported.
Guys I am clueless on how to proceed and want to do so cautiously.
-Please could you guys help me remove these threats without formatting the portable HD
- Is there a chance I could infect my PC (did a scan just now and MSE says my baby is still clean)
(Running Windows Ultimate 32bit on a Toshiba laptop)
* Ive scanned the external HD with Maleware-Bytes and Ad Aware and they have picked up nothing...
Last edited by James78; 13 Feb 2010 at 03:09. Reason: added *