Windows 10: These files might be harmful to your computer message(desktop)

Hey,

That looks good. But I think you are infected, can you please download the Emsisoft Emergency Kit unzip and install it? After you installed it, please start it (if it does start automatic) from C:\EEK and let the program update, enable PUP dection and run a quick scan.

Please attach​ the logfile of the EEK scan in your next post.

 

Emsisoft Emergency Kit - Version 11.9
Scan log


Date Scan Method Objects Scanned Objects Detected Duration Type Computer Name
20/08/2016 21:17:58 Quick 62505 0 0:00:34 Manual scan DESKTOP-3JFV22M

 

Dave, this post of yours is partly what got me questionning you about your Favourites drawer. (Usually named 'Favorites' with no 'u' on non-British systems, by the way).

You transposed the pathname incorrectly as no system-generated pathname string would contain a mix of backslashes (\) and forward-slashes (/).
If writing forward-slashes as backslashes was the only error you made, then your Desktop drawer's pathname is:C:\Users\Dave\Favourites\Desktop If this is the case, then the source of all your problems is having the Desktop drawer inside the Favourites drawer. Because, as I stated, Windows pops up exactly the warning message you've been getting when a user copies or moves files from or to anywhere in Favourites. The Desktop drawer doesn't belong in the Favourites drawer.

If the above is the case, try dragging the Desktop drawer from C:\Users\Dave\Favourites
back to where it belongs, which is directly under C:\Users\Dave .

 

Ah, my mistake with the \ and /.
Folder now moved as suggested and problem now solved. No idea how this happened.
However.................if I now move a file to the recycle bin and want to restore it back to its original location, I am being prompted with this one now.....



Now when deleting from the desktop again, I am prompted with:

 

Guys, Gals: Thread starter may have to boot a Puppy Linux usb stick or DVD boot to move Desktop folder out of Favorites back to where it belongs? Or, did I misunderstand where the Desktop folder now resides?

 

I'm glad my suggestion of moving the Desktop folder out of Favourites and to its correct location worked for you, Dave. And RolandJS, you also picked it right, and it 's fortuitously turned out the folder could be moved without booting from another device. (Worth double-checking after a boot though Dave, it should now be at c:\Users\Dave\Desktop .

Dave, for the sort of Administrator permission required warning prompts you're now noticing, personally I just press Continue to proceed every time. If you're getting this for deleting/moving non-system files in your personal folders (e.g. Desktop and Documents, as distinct from system folders such as c:\Windows, C:\Windows\System32 and the Program Files drawer(s), then I'm guessing some of your personal folders' Permissions are screwed up. If so you'd need to fix them after a full partition backup. Otherwise do yourself a favour and leave the Permissions well alone!).

If you're getting these warnings frequently for only system drawers/files, then I suggest you review the necessity of manually altering so many of them! Or perhaps you're still storing or installing some files in non-standard places?

If none of the above helps, I suggest you post a new topic here headed something like 'How to avoid Administrator permission nags when moving or deleting files to the recycle bin.' Simple and concise single topic posts like that (a single issue per topic) tend to best attract helpers, and I'm afraid I have to attend to other matters for a couple of weeks.

Glad to be of help and I hope over time you get Windows 10 going as fully to your liking as is possible, considering the Windows trends of snowballing number of file protection feature, increasingly difficult configurability, and the loss of some beloved older features.

At least Win10 will likely keep us going (and on our toes!) for a decade or so to come.

 

Having constant messages come up, I decided it was time for a reset.......all working perfectly now.