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Hi, my Windows Defender detector blocked and removed a Trojan download today. I ran several full scans and followed instructions on deleting Temp files. I found an article by “howtofixguide” on the trojandownloadero97m-encdoc-femtb and decided to search for the virus on my PC in my file explorer by searching 5E967C56B6ECA10A1DDCE26896607E8F.mlw in the search engine. This was listed as the virus name on the website. When I pressed enter it opened up a link to a Bing Search about PCs as well as a popup in my file explorer asking me to enter a username and password. I'm considering running a full scan, doing a factory reset, and changing all of my personal information. Do you have any other advice? Or can you explain what happened when I entered the name in my file search engine? Thank you.
Note: I'm using Windows 10 on an HP Laptop.
Clean install would be best, might also ask for help over here.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum
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Hi, thank you for responding. I'm going to try doing the clean install and enter the forum. Also, do you know why a link to a PC search was opened when I searched the virus name in the file explorer? I'm not very familiar with computer viruses, I'm assuming that this means that it was either already downloaded or that entering the name in my Quick access search downloaded it somehow. I'm not sure.
Hard to say for sure. You can boot from the install media, then follow prompts.
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Okay, thank you.
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MLW is a file extension commonly associated with MainLog Data files. MLW files are supported by software applications available for devices running Windows.
I shall suggest you use Malwarebytes. Boot into Safe mode and scan your system with latest version of Malwarebytes.
Thank you. I will try this.