Malware FakeAV-Jo Keeps Showing Up

Hello Lynn M,

briefly in quarantine before it disappears
this is normal. When automatic cleanup is enabled and a threat is cleanable a cleanup routine is dispatched. Depending on the threat it might perform a simple action like deleting the file, do some additional specific scanning, or even decide that a full scan is required. A file appears in QM immediately after detection, once cleanup is successful it will disappear.

5x in a row with the same message
an important pice of information is the file's path, it might give a hint which application is responsible. Likely the detection is on write and the application (e.g. Dropbox sync) might check whether the file has been successfully written and retry a few times.

What's going on here?
Hard to say from the outside without more information. If you have no idea why it happens about twice a month the Source Of Infection tool might help to find the culprit.

Christian

Hello Lynn M

In addition to what QC wrote, consider running Microsoft Autoruns to see if there are any unusual programs that are running automatically, and is triggering the detection.

Sometimes it's a scheduled task that is running a script that seems unusual but may be causing behavior that is malicious and is triggering a detection. 

For more information on MS Autoruns I recommend you read the official article here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx.

Hello Lynn M

In addition to what QC wrote, consider running Microsoft Autoruns to see if there are any unusual programs that are running automatically, and is triggering the detection.

Sometimes it's a scheduled task that is running a script that seems unusual but may be causing behavior that is malicious and is triggering a detection. 

For more information on MS Autoruns I recommend you read the official article here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx.