Lena Brinkman
New Member
Lately, my computer had been running slower than usual and ads from various websites/companies had been popping up while I was using my browser. I determined this was caused by malware and set to work deleting the files manually (deleting all extra add-ons and temp files, unhiding my files and rummaging through my program files and data, etc.) before running Malwarebytes which got rid of all the additional files I had missed.
For a couple weeks, this had seemed to solve my problem, but yesterday, as I was browsing the internet, another one of those pesky ads popped up even though there were apparently no more files or suspicious things to be removed from my computer. Malwarebytes notified me to let me know it had blocked the ad, but I was still puzzled as how it could have reinstalled itself or reappeared after I had gone through such lengths to delete it and there was nothing left.
So I opened up my Defragmenter... and voila! \\?\Volume{06684dc9-dce9-4ff4-a1c6-6e7bc6f55c8b}\
I am pretty sure this is the source of my troubles, but I have been racking my brain trying to figure out how to delete or get rid of it. I have looked it up and I believe this is called a "partition," but I'm really not sure what it is so excuse me if I am wrong. If this partition is not the culprit, could anyone please explain to me what it is and offer insight as to what I could do to find the malware?
I did go into Disk Management to view my partitions, but they all seem important and I don't know how to view more information about each of them. Also, I wouldn't be able to delete them even if I wanted to because when I right click on any of them except for the first one with 500 MB, all it displays is "Help."
I would be forever grateful if anyone had any ideas as to what I could do or help me out with this.
For a couple weeks, this had seemed to solve my problem, but yesterday, as I was browsing the internet, another one of those pesky ads popped up even though there were apparently no more files or suspicious things to be removed from my computer. Malwarebytes notified me to let me know it had blocked the ad, but I was still puzzled as how it could have reinstalled itself or reappeared after I had gone through such lengths to delete it and there was nothing left.
So I opened up my Defragmenter... and voila! \\?\Volume{06684dc9-dce9-4ff4-a1c6-6e7bc6f55c8b}\
I am pretty sure this is the source of my troubles, but I have been racking my brain trying to figure out how to delete or get rid of it. I have looked it up and I believe this is called a "partition," but I'm really not sure what it is so excuse me if I am wrong. If this partition is not the culprit, could anyone please explain to me what it is and offer insight as to what I could do to find the malware?
I did go into Disk Management to view my partitions, but they all seem important and I don't know how to view more information about each of them. Also, I wouldn't be able to delete them even if I wanted to because when I right click on any of them except for the first one with 500 MB, all it displays is "Help."
I would be forever grateful if anyone had any ideas as to what I could do or help me out with this.