Hi guys
My sister was doing her projects with her friends in school today. When she inserted her Cruzer Micro (2GB) thumbdrive into her friend's laptop, their anti-virus immediately detected some virus in the thumbdrive. Worried that her laptop, a HP EliteBook 9470m running on Windows 8, might get a virus, she told me to help her scan her laptop.
Initially, her laptop was only protected by Windows Defender. As I needed to scan her laptop, I decided to install avast! Free to do so.
After about 25min of scanning, avast! concluded that there was a threat found. I looked at the details and realised that, besides some files with 'Error: The system cannot find the path specified (3)', this is what I saw.
File Name: C:\MSI\TrustedInstaller.exe
Severity: High
Status: Threat: Win32:Dropper-gen [Drp]
I have checked online for information and solutions but they always told me to install other softwares to get rid of it. Also, they also warned us not to delete the file away; if the infected file was an essential Windows file, I will never be able to boot up again.
Can anyone help me? I'm not a professional when it comes to removing viruses from computers so I'll really appreciate if anyone can help me. Also, will the virus infect other thumbdrives or removable media?
Thanks in advance!
P.S. I have since formatted the thumbdrive.