Hello, I am completely new to this forum, but before posting this I have searched through the forum about the problem I had and I am posting this to inquire about the problem further and see if I am free of it. I have a very new laptop just 1 week old and a friend gave me his external hard drive so I can transfer some files on my computer to his ext hard drive. He told me he has no viruses but I should have been wiser. Anyway the second I plug it in, avast alerts me that there are 17 LNK:FakeFolder-B[Trj] on that external hard drive and it quarantined them. I Immediately removed the ext hard drive and run a full system scan that came back with no infections. I got scared that the virus or whatever it is may have seeped into my computer so I started searching through the avast forums and found on different posts that I should download and run mcshield. I have done that and the scan took way less than 2 seconds and I read the logs and showed that all my drives were clean. I plugged in my own personal ext hard drives and memory sticks and mcshield scanned them and the logs showed that they were all clean as well. I ran another avast full system scan and there were no infections detected. Now the questions is, after doing all this, does this indicate that the virus did not manage to seep into my laptop or any other external memory devices? Is there anything else I should be doing or am I good for now and I should stop worrying? I hope I will be hearing about this soon, and I do apologize if I posted this in the wrong section, but I figured it may be the right place.
