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Hi guys , 

I recently inserted a usb stick in my computer and Sophos immidiately recognized it as a virus and it said it cleaned it , my paranoia got to me and I did a full scan and it said my PC was clean , but later on the internet I was going through a similar thread - Troj/JenxLnk-B not removed by Sophos Clean - Discussions - Intercept X Endpoint - Sophos Community where sophos could not clean the virus above metioned. I really want to know if Sophos cleaned my PC or not , I am also attaching a screenshot

Please help , im losing my sleep over it , Thank you.



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    Firstly it's worth mentioning that you can have a file that is detected as being malicious without being infected.  You essentially just have an application or script or something that has yet to be run.

    I suspect you plugged in the device, explorer displayed the drive contents. As the files were being read by Explorer.exe, Sophos alerted you to the threat on the USB drive.  At this point nothing has happened and Sophos would have blocked the file had it been launched. 

    It's probably the case of simply removing the file, one way would be as part of a format of the disk or if you do need the contents then you could delete that file.

    The more curious question is where did it come from?  How did it get there?  Was it written to the disk from your computer or was it written to the disk on someone else's?

    There is a chance it's a false positive?

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    Firstly it's worth mentioning that you can have a file that is detected as being malicious without being infected.  You essentially just have an application or script or something that has yet to be run.

    I suspect you plugged in the device, explorer displayed the drive contents. As the files were being read by Explorer.exe, Sophos alerted you to the threat on the USB drive.  At this point nothing has happened and Sophos would have blocked the file had it been launched. 

    It's probably the case of simply removing the file, one way would be as part of a format of the disk or if you do need the contents then you could delete that file.

    The more curious question is where did it come from?  How did it get there?  Was it written to the disk from your computer or was it written to the disk on someone else's?

    There is a chance it's a false positive?

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    Hi , 

    I talked to a sophos exec and he took my logs and reviewed them , he said my PC is safe , the problem is I don't remember if I executed the files or not , I remember opening the shortcut folders created on the drive itself , that's that's reason I'm Paranoid.

    The drive is from 2010 and it was my personal drive for all my songs from then. I dint plug it until yesterday. 

    I did a complete scan and used the sophos virus removal tool , both the tools said my PC was safe.

    The question is if Sophos really blocked the virus and if there was any damage done unknowingly.

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