Windows 10: PC possibly infected by recycler (?) virus

Hi, this afternoon as soon as I plugged in my laptop (which runs knon windows 10 fully updated) my usb drive (which I used to transfer some data from a pc which ran on windows xp) my antivirus (365 security) went full alarm revealing several virus among which I noticed a couple trojans and something called Recycler. I selected the "Repair and scan drive" option, then accidentally removed the pen while the scan was being initialized. I replugged the drive and started a new scan, which revealed nothing. When I checked for the content of the drive, I noticed a new (empty) folder called "RECYCLER" which I straightforwardly deleted (and it didn't go to the bin but was apparently deleted directly).

I then ran two complete scans with 365 antivirus and RogueKiller, nothing was found. Tomorrow I'm running the Windows MSRT to triple check.

I actually think my antivirus was able to find and block any virus revealed before it could do any real damage, but how can I check?

I'm especially worried about that Recycler thing, since I haven't been able to find much information about what it does and how to avoid it. (Some even claim it's not a virus, some make it look like the worst of every possible evil... I'm perplexed.)

Thank you in advance,


CG

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steps taken for infected Pc's.


I was hoping someone could give me a list of step by step instructions you use as a guide to clean virus, malware...etc. so I can keep my PC clean if it gets infected.

thx

 

PC Infected with Virus

Depends. Sometimes you can run it in safe mode. Another trick is renaming the .exe when installing and renaming it again when running it so it is not recognized by the virus.

 

PC Infected with Virus

My boss isn't great with computers and clicked a link in an email she shouldn't have, now the PC is infected with one of those things asking for credit card info to buy anti virus software. I wasn't in the office today so I didn't get to look at it myself, but I told her to boot into safe mode and try system restore, it didn't work though and the virus/program still ran.

Usually in these cases, I just would reinstall Windows to make sure everything is clean. But she has data on this hard drive that can't be lost. When I go in tomorrow, I was going to see if I can copy the data to an external while in safe mode. I don't think it'll work, but I'll give it a shot.

I *think* I have a second internal hard drive at my office. Could I put this in the PC, install Windows on it, boot into the clean Windows then copy the files from the hard drive with the infected Windows?

Any suggestions how I should best deal with this?