Virus Sanity Check

AshD93

AshD93

AshD93

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Hey guys,

Can't believe what I've done - So stupid of me but want to check.

So was downloading a file - Chrome said it might be dangerous but I ignored because I normally trust the site.

Then checked the file because it was odd that it came up. It was a ms-dos executable or something of the sort. I quickly deleted it and emptied the trash without running it. Obviously the site is no longer trustable.

So considering it wasn't run by me, my anti-virus didn't catch it (and therefore wouldn't have scanned it and triggered it I assume) and I deleted it, I am safe? I am admin on my account but I have UAC active on the third setting (not max which I have just changed it too).

Doing a full scan just in case but paranoid me as it were needs to check I don't need to do a full reinstall (which would be a nightmare)

Cheers

Ash

Edit: I think it was a .com file. Part of me thinks because the file name contains the website name, they've changed the name and forget to add the extension.
 
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Guessing thats bad :/! I didn't even run the stupid thing! Unless this is from something else. I had a quick google and it installs with freeware programs?

Running a second scan now to see if it's coming back.
 
You can't get a virus from downloading an executable. If you didn't run it you're perfectly fine. You've deleted it so no further action necessary.
 
FoxEye said:
You can't get a virus from downloading an executable. If you didn't run it you're perfectly fine. You've deleted it so no further action necessary.
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So is the above nothing to worry about? Or I'm guessing it's something I've picked up without noticing previously.

The second scan came clear and I know sometimes these malware programs pick up stuff that isn't really dangerous?
 
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