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I scanned with Malwarebytes and Spybot Search & Destroy before performing the nuke, both showed no detections. Does this mean I am safe and good to reinstall Windows, and that I can just ignore the Avast threat warnings as false positives? Or should I err on the side of caution and wait, or do...

https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=205279.0 I saw this thread on the Avast forums just now. Is it possible that these are false positives? And if so, what should I do just to be safe? Second question, after a windows reinstall, upon restart it said that bitdefender had an error. I don't...

I have now discovered that it is also infected one of my family members laptops, after running in Avast scan on it. I immediately shut down the computer. Does this mean it's infected our Network? What do I do, I'm starting to become quite scared.

I am on the custom install screen right now, it appears that this is what I did last time and the virus still survived. I selected delete on all partitions. PS: DBAN says it only works with hdds.

I should also mention that this drive is an SSD.

I have read that this doesn't actually delete the files in said partitions however, it just destroys the file system. How can I wipe this drive entirely before I do the reinstall?

I can't format the drive windows is operating on. Also, if I backup files, the virus could hitch a ride on to whatever I'm backing them up onto.

Hello, I am in desperate need of assistance. Any help you can give me I would be so grateful for. So it all started when Avast picked up a virus in my app data temporary burn folder, called the desktop.ini. After a quick bit of research I found out that this can be an indication of ransomware...