Possible malware after Putty telnet download.
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Possible malware after Putty telnet download.
15-06-2021 12:52 PM
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Good Morning
Yesterday I had help from this forum to solve a problem with Plusnet e-mails Thunderbird which is now OK.
Separately from this - but connected - I followed instructions the day before from Thunderbird to download Telnet from your website in the section "Testing Network Faults" . From this section I followed the recommendation to download the PuTTY suite to use in testing and tried to implement it with commands - in vain !!
In the event this was not necessary and so I uninstalled the programme. Since then, however, I have been getting a black box randomly flashing up on my computer which prompts the showing of my Defaults page in Settings - often with Thunderbird highlighted but not aways.
The box is very fast, but seems to say at the top :-
C:\Windows\System32\cmd\exe
I am completely stumped by this. Can anybody help me to stop this happening?
Regards,
Roy.
Re: Possible malware after Putty telnet download.
16-06-2021 12:15 PM
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See if it still finds Putty bits on your hard drive.
If no luck read this article, involving going through your Registry.
https://www.minitool.com/news/remove-remnants-of-uninstalled-software.html
Re: Possible malware after Putty telnet download.
16-06-2021 1:21 PM
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Hello Gel - thanks for the reply.
When I uninstalled the PuTTY Suite originally the other day I did use my Revo Uninstaller Free and also used the advanced Scan setting which is supposed to remove all remnants - whether it does or not, who knows?
This afternoon I will have a read through the article you linked to me and probably keep the details on hand in case I need to venture into the registry!!
Thanks again for your interest and help.
Roy.
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