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Re: "Threat has been detected", but avast can't find and/or eliminate it
« Reply #15 on: January 29, 2014, 01:02:53 AM »
Alright, I copied most of the stuff back to its' original location. However, that folder was huge, and now my hard drive has almost no space left (due to having copied, rather than cut). So, do those files HAVE to be in the quarantine zone, or can I delete the ones I copied, to help make space on my hard drive?

Although, even after moving everything back, my saved favorite places still haven't returned to Firefox. I know it seems like a little detail, but I was rather thorough and intricate with my saving of favorite places, and it would take days (maybe weeks) to put everything back in there from scratch. Any ideas on where they could be?

Also, is there anything else that needs to be done for the virus stuff, or am I good to go in that regard?

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Re: "Threat has been detected", but avast can't find and/or eliminate it
« Reply #16 on: January 29, 2014, 01:12:07 AM »
So, do those files HAVE to be in the quarantine zone, or can I delete the ones I copied, to help make space on my hard drive?

No. If you have been restore all files for shure to it's original location, you may delete files in _OTL folder.

C:\_OTL\MovedFiles\01282014_162437\C_Users\CloudsRPGMaster => ...
I'm talking only for this forest folders (CloudsRPGMaster => ... )
The rest is malware related.

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Although, even after moving everything back, my saved favorite places still haven't returned to Firefox. I know it seems like a little detail, but I was rather thorough and intricate with my saving of favorite places, and it would take days (maybe weeks) to put everything back in there from scratch. Any ideas on where they could be?

Somewhere in _OTL's Quarantine.

I shall need OTL's c:\_OTL\MovedFiles\mmddyyyy_hhmmss.log to say precisely.

Upload log here, and post here download link.
http://www.wikisend.com

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Also, is there anything else that needs to be done for the virus stuff, or am I good to go in that regard?
You should be good (malware free). But right now, I now want to solve created problem.

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Re: "Threat has been detected", but avast can't find and/or eliminate it
« Reply #17 on: January 29, 2014, 01:20:35 AM »
Alright, here's the link to the log file:
http://wikisend.com/download/327796/01282014_162437.log

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Re: "Threat has been detected", but avast can't find and/or eliminate it
« Reply #18 on: January 29, 2014, 01:35:04 AM »
Ok, I shall look & continue at this tomorow. In my time it's bad time...

You make shure to restore all your files from "CloudsRPGMaster"  folder by then.




Your Firefox profile should be located here:
In _OTL:  ...\CloudsRPGMaster\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\tob348vz.default

The contents of that (tob348vz.default) folder copy-paste here:
C:\Users\CloudsRPGMaster\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\tob348vz.default




Please know this: The red flaged is usual random_named. You're going to see that like this:  ...\Profiles\random.default

C:\Users\CloudsRPGMaster\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\random.default





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Re: "Threat has been detected", but avast can't find and/or eliminate it
« Reply #19 on: January 29, 2014, 02:04:15 AM »
Hey, that didn't do it, but I found another Mozilla folder (I think it was in the "local" folder), and after I'd copied and replaced both that and the roaming folder, my favorites were restored!

Thanks a bunch! Now I just have to free up some space on my hard drive (which I've been meaning to do for a while anyway), and then I should be good.

And don't beat yourself up. Mistakes happen on occasion. It's part of being human. I'm just happy that you helped with the virus stuff. I was really uncomfortable just knowing that virus was floating around doing who knows what. I didn't want it to steal money from me, or identity information and whatnot.

If anything else odd comes up in the next few days, I'll post it here and let you know. Or if you have any other comments or questions for me, feel free to let me know.

Thanks again.

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Re: "Threat has been detected", but avast can't find and/or eliminate it
« Reply #20 on: January 29, 2014, 05:13:57 PM »
No I don't have. Posted logs appear clean. You may remove used tools if all is good now.

C:\_OTL folder you may delete when you think it's Ok for you to delete (because of data).