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This week I'm formating my PC due to a new PC because I bought a new PC which is coming this week, and I want to carry it to my village. When I was backing up my data. I saw an strange folder on my USRDIR:
fe29RAi.png

And here the content:
WjnZiLt.png


What do you think this could be? What type of virus?
 

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bumping is not allowed.
anyway. did you try to open one file? no harm in doing it..

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pdf's and excel files?
Have you got any means of opening them sandboxed? They could just be temp or recovered files.
if it's a virus he is already affected, there can't be much more harm now...
 

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Yeah... it does kind of look like it's the product of some kind of malware/virus - don't think I've ever come across a valid pdf that's as small as 3Kb.
nah, i believe these are either temp files or recovered files.. or trash from some software...
actually really seems like recovered files from using recuva or other recovery software

if it was a virus it would have screenshots or pictures of the camera or executables... not xlsx and pdf files
 

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nah, i believe these are either temp files or recovered files.. or trash from some software...
actually really seems like recovered files from using recuva or other recovery software

if it was a virus it would have screenshots or pictures of the camera or executables... not xlsx and pdf files

All of them are excel or pdf files. Inside them I can see some random numbers/leters. That's all. Now I have deleted it with any issue, but i wanted to know what was that
 

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All of them are excel or pdf files. Inside them I can see some random numbers/leters. That's all. Now I have deleted it with any issue, but i wanted to know what was that
had you used recuva? or some software to recover deleted files?
 

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Do you remember what you were doing on your computer around the time those files were modified (14/05/2017 20:3X)?
I don't remember well, but I'm almost sure I was on hard week of exams, so nothing more than read the newspaper

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I don't remember well, but I'm almost sure I was on hard week of exams, so nothing more than read the newspaper

Can this be related with anti-ransomware I installed?
 

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Run something like malwarebytes and see what it picks up and chkdsk.

Last time I encountered anything like this it was due to either file recovery gone wrong or corruption.
 

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same like me every 1 week i must clean my program files folder on data c. deleted again again and again. very alot of junk files. i think your problem same like me:glare:
 
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