It has been 6 hours and seems to stick - the estimated time remaining keeps going up ever so slightly with the number of files scanned unchanged. Does this sound like legitimate? What should I do to make sure the Trojan is really removed from my desktop? Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. This is the first time that Window Defender found the Trojan thread - just want to know if the Trojan is common and how does it get attached to a local excel file?
I did not recall installing any app or opening an attachment. After the Windows security scan, it said one item was skipped - but I didn't set up any item to be skipped. Also, the of items scanned by Malwarebytes is , much less than 4,, files scanned by Windows Security. This thread is locked.
You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. WiIfred P Independent Advisor. Let me forward the invite you are referring to to our Security Team so they could check and take appropriate actions.
I just have to contain my curiosity. The google drive thing sounds interesting but I think I'll just leave the whole thing alone--unless Valeria tells me that it's okay of course.
A "client" sent me a invitation this week for technical writing with an excel file that should have included more info. I opened if and it contained a virus. I have send it to UW trust and safety who found out that is was probably a macro. I had to change my password and made an extra virus scanning. I am not sure if anything is OK now. Job and account have been deleted but could have been set up again. Aug 25, AM by Lena E. Aug 25, PM by David G. I would use it to distribute these to scammers via their beloved Skype as what they expect to be free work.
Just because nothing else seems to help remove them from here. Aug 25, PM by Kathy T. If you have a anti virus program on your computer, you should set the security to scan for viruses In addition, you can set the security level on the Developer tab to notifiy you if there are macros attached to any Office Program. Click through for a comprehensive list of job post red flags, and learn from our Trust and Safety Team how to combat scammers.
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Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Search instead for. Can't find it at the moment, but one of the hacking news sites had an article on hostel code that could be embedded in xlsx files, and a bunch of other types of MS Office document.
Bottom line, low-tech is best tech Just contact them and ask if the file was sent intentionally. This policy is mandatory at our office with any unsolicited attachments. Use a disposable Google account and upload it there, to open in Google Sheets. You can view it there, without any sort of Excel specific macros causing potential problems to your system. And even if it does cause a problem, it would likely be limited to that specific Google account not your machine , which would be a throw away account, just for that very reason.
Apparently even CSV files! VirtualBox is free and will work great for this. It's not necessarily completely fool proof I imagine that even OpenOffice could be have some vulnerability , but I figure it would sandbox things well enough.
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