vopehov506 posted at 6:01 PM Tue, 4 April 2023 - #4460801

I actually stopped with these expensive Antivirus Programs a long time ago. Instead I got my self Paragon Hard Disk Manager. Making healthy images of my whole system once in a while. In case of a suspect of infection I can restore  the whole system in less then 20 min without breaking my head on what I got eliminating all threads. Also works to just load the whole system on a new computer if hardware fails in less then an hour.

You might just try Uninstalling that antivirus replacing it with Avira Free or something similar, spending your money on a Hard Disk Manager  rather then experiencing to spend allot for a antivirus program that slows down your system causing more damage then a virus ever could do. Your best weapon against a Virus is a good HD Image

I also keep a Full system mirror on a secondary SSD drive just in case making it fast to replace ( Plug and Play ) The damaged one gets formatted and and used as new backup ( No Headaches and no risk of a heart attack )   

Cool that the culprit was found!

Me too.  Slightly different tactic, but stopped using AV.

(disclosure: I used to work in security - detection, research, analysis, and response of attacks.  Before that, I used every major AV and FW at some point.  Computer *and* network based.  I use ingress AND egress filtering, very tight system security, along with disk management .  The Disk Management gets you a lot of other protection as well. :)

While I wouldn't advise most people to do what i do (without understanding more about what's going on), I would absolutely recommend a good disk management setup.  Keep in mind: generally RAID, itself, doesn't protect you from anything other than a DISK failure.  My father used to say: there are two types of computer users: those that have lost data and those that will lose data :D

I'm both types.

PS: I do real time cloning with snapshots and a very large heap of >3x redundant mirrors.  Because, being the first type makes me scared of being the second type.  Even my system drive (which stores no data) is doubly redundant.  Drives are cheaper than time :)