I used a USB that had data from an older computer of mine (I haven’t used it in over 9 years) since it contained a document I needed. Windows Defender goes crazy saying that it detected a “Trojan: Win32/Phonzy.C!m” and “Backdoor: MSIL/Bladabindi.AA”. I did not open nor run any files and immediately removed the threats via Windows Defender. It says it succeeded with the backdoor yet a “remediation incomplete” with the trojan (by that time I removed the USB). However, it said the trojan was in a word file that literally was an academic assignment from back then, so that may have been a false positive.
I am currently running a full scan on Windows defender and Malwarebytes. How can one be sure the virus was removed without resetting the system?
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