

- #ESCAPE WHISPER VALLEY MALWARE INSTALL#
- #ESCAPE WHISPER VALLEY MALWARE OFFLINE#
- #ESCAPE WHISPER VALLEY MALWARE WINDOWS#
Once the scan is completed make sure you have it quarantine any detections it finds. Once installed then open Malwarebytes and select Scan and let it run.
#ESCAPE WHISPER VALLEY MALWARE INSTALL#
If you don't have Malwarebytes installed yet please download it from here and install it. It will automatically check for updates and run a Threat Scan. If you already have Malwarebytes installed then open Malwarebytes and click on the Scan button. The program is safe and used hundreds of times a week by many users.Įxample of Microsoft Edge blocking the download

When downloading with some browsers you may see a different style of screens that may block FRST from downloading. I'll be happy to provide other logs/files as needed. I've wondered if this meant it was being run remotely by some hacker, but I might just be paranoid, lol (at least I hope that's safe to laugh at). There does also seem to be a significant decrease in speed if I've left it on for a day or two-even after restarting, which I find strange, and even if I give it a break between powering off and powering it back on. There frequently seems to be a lot of activity when the computer is in idle mode.
#ESCAPE WHISPER VALLEY MALWARE WINDOWS#
There is also an old hidden picture program (Escape Whisper Valley-very small) and a basic solitaire game from the Windows store.)

(No significant gaming programs, except for Age of Empires II, which I can't remember if I've even reinstalled since the reset. All of these ran smoothly prior to the February issues, but all run much slower now, which is impacting my ability to do schoolwork. But I try to keep the rest of the computer fairly clean. I have Adobe Acrobat, which I recently needed to sign some electronic documents, and despite multiple attempts it now strangely won't let me uninstall (or modify). I use several heavy memory programs for school-PowerBI, Tableau (including two add-ins: DAXStudio and Tabular Editor), an SQL program, and Excel files that frequently have thousands of lines-and have a large set of picture files with occasional Photoshop use (a very old version of Photoshop, so theoretically smaller program, not sure). I have also disabled everything I can find in the startup menu that isn't critical (though there are a few I am unsure about and have left alone). I have reinstalled and run MalwareBytes, several others from the same company (ADW cleaner I think it's called, and a few others from that list on ). I have used CCleaner repeatedly and now have it set to run on startup.
#ESCAPE WHISPER VALLEY MALWARE OFFLINE#
I have checked every anti-virus I could since then: Defender (again, several times), McAfee, Kaspersky, BitDefender (the current one, but I've run additional Defender scans since then, including an offline removal scan on multiple occasions). (I did the version that keeps personal files and just refreshes the Windows install.) It helped, but not for terribly long-maybe a week or two? In desperation I ultimately reset the computer entirely. I tried every scan I could: Defender, MalwareBytes, etc. Lots of folders with strange strings of letters and numbers being generated almost non-stop, logs that almost look like keylogs, incredibly high CPU and disk usage. My computer has been acting quite strangely since February. Please see attached MB log (at least I think this is the right one), Addition.txt and FRST.txt files.
