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Please forgive me if this is in the wrong place.
So yesterday I decided I was going to do a fresh install as things were starting to slow down so I ordered myself a 250gb WD Black NVMe SSD.
I made a brand new install drive with a brand new memory stick and removed all my existing drives. Installed Windows onto the new NVMe and it booted perfect.
I used ninite to install a few programs then I started to get warnings about a Trojan, checked malwarebytes and nothing came up but windows defender kept popping up with threats.
I have removed the NVMe and put my old drives back in and all is good.
What should I do with the new drive?
So yesterday I decided I was going to do a fresh install as things were starting to slow down so I ordered myself a 250gb WD Black NVMe SSD.
I made a brand new install drive with a brand new memory stick and removed all my existing drives. Installed Windows onto the new NVMe and it booted perfect.
I used ninite to install a few programs then I started to get warnings about a Trojan, checked malwarebytes and nothing came up but windows defender kept popping up with threats.
I have removed the NVMe and put my old drives back in and all is good.
What should I do with the new drive?
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It could have been a false positive if MB diddnt pick anything up.
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Stop using programs to install programs.
Format it, you'll be gucci again..
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Format it, you'll be gucci again..
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What would cause this? And how would I actually remove it? I don't want to just stop windows defender popping up just incase it's genuine
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Craig wrote Stop using programs to install programs.
Format it, you'll be gucci again..
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You think ninite could have caused this?
Will do a format once I'm back home
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I've never heard of it so couldn't say. But just install stuff from the developers websites. If nothing else at least you're getting the latest versions.
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I'd do a scan with Windows Defender and see what it picks up. You should be able to see it's location so you will know what caused it.
It could be a possibility that when you downloaded the programs via ninite, it installed the extras that comes with some programs. I've not seen this happen before but it's possible.
It could be a possibility that when you downloaded the programs via ninite, it installed the extras that comes with some programs. I've not seen this happen before but it's possible.
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so I formatted the new drive and installed another fresh copy of Windows, I installed Malwarebytes and Google Chrome from the official site and again Windows Defender came up with a Trojan
any help?
any help?
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AlexPX3 wrote so I formatted the new drive and installed another fresh copy of Windows, I installed Malwarebytes and Google Chrome from the official site and again Windows Defender came up with a Trojan
any help?
Where does it say the virus is? Take a screenshot of it and show us
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Send a screenshot of what it says. It'll be more help.
Where did you get your Windows image from? Was it direct from Microsoft?
Where did you get your Windows image from? Was it direct from Microsoft?
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