External Hard Drive error ~$WV.FAT32

Jumanji

Yeah! I learned a lot from you guys. Thanks so much,
After backing up my files, i decided to format my drive using your instructions, but something went wrong, again. haha


Now i can't see my drive on my computer, i tried using WinRar and Disk management but it still wont show.
Strange that the Safety Remove Hardware icon on my taskbar is still there when i plug my drive.


Bout the question, The "Letrang shortcut" from my HD directory was created by the virus. but the name "Letrang" was created by me. I renamed my HD to Letrang.



Layback Bear

Those "Unimportant stuffs" were my applications and game cracks, it has been there for a long time and I've used them and nothing goes wrong, so I'm pretty sure that those were not the cause of the shortcut virus, knowing that some anti virus see Cracks as suspicious and threat to the computer.

OT (Off Topic)

Hi ICit2lol,

Yoda: A short, ugly female/chick

Yoda: The most powerful Jedi to ever grace the order. His wisdom and knowledge of the force was unmatched.

Which one do you mean?
Either way it doesn't fit me. Wrong call.
OT: (On Track)


Hi Flippylumpy,

Sorry to know that sanitising the ext. HDD failed. For the time being keep it off and concentrate on your PC.

I am afraid it is very intensively infected with malware of more than one kind as was your ext. HDD. The error message, to my thinking, indicates the presence of some malware in the user temp folder. I know how to delete all temporary files in your user folder but a bit by bit approach is not going to help here. You have to deal with the whole computer.

Seek help in the System Security sub-forum here on how best to cleanse your PC, quoting this thread.

( ICit2lol had recommended malwarebytes in his post #2, among others. Most other experts here also recommend that. Keep your dialogue there open till your computer is clean and then return to this thread on the HDD problem.)

Till your computer is clean, do not connect any external storage devices.

Hi,

I was trying to format my HDD with HDD Lowlevel format tool when suddenly this error appears,

Now my ext. HDD won't show on My Computer, even in Disk Management and WinRAR. But the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the Taskbar is there, whenever i plug my ext. Hdd.

One senior member here thinks that it indicates the presence of some malware in the user temp folder and i should ask help here.
He also recommends that i should use malwarebytes anti-malware. After scanning my drive C, this is what it founds.

Hi Flippylumpy,

I wanted you to ask the question "How do I cleanse my PC of all malware?"

Anyway since you are here, I shall give a brief history so that System Security experts can take over and help you.

The OP had a problem. He couldn't open his external HDD. (Seagate)

External Hard Drive error ~$WV.FAT32

I guided him to eliminate all non-data folders that could hide any malware. After doing that and unhiding his data folders, he was able to see his folder and open it too. He has since backed up all data into another drive.

He was just carrying out my suggestion to lowlevel format the external drive and reformat it to sanitise when this error appeared. It is evident his PC is infested and needs to be cleaned.

Not well-versed in malware elimination, I had advised him to seek expert help here. The external drive disappearing during the zerowriting process is now a secondary issue which perhaps can wait till he gets his computer clean.

So the help needed here is how best to cleanse his PC.

Over to the experts here.

EDIT: OK, I had failed to see that he has also given the results of Malwarebytes run.

Jumanji

Thank you for clearing the issue. :) I haven't been doing this kind of malware scans on my pc for a while, i mean, it has never been a habit. The results of the Malwarebytes run is on the 2nd pic that i have attached on my post.


Slartybart

I've only tried the kaspersky TDSSKiller and it does not found any threats, neutralized and quarantine.


Cottonball

Here's the RKreport.txt,
RKreport[1]_S_03142013_02d0300.txt