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Can I remove Backdoor.Bot?

Snakeeyes21
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When malwarebytes was running its normal scan it came up with
C:\Users\THOMAS\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\svchost.exe (Backdoor.Bot)
After googling it I found out irs a backdoor trojan, but also found out windows uses the svchost,exe to run
is it safe for me to remove this without messing up windows?
Thanks
C:\Users\THOMAS\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\svchost.exe (Backdoor.Bot)
After googling it I found out irs a backdoor trojan, but also found out windows uses the svchost,exe to run
is it safe for me to remove this without messing up windows?
Thanks
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Snakeeyes21 wrote: »When malwarebytes was running its normal scan it came up with
C:\Users\THOMAS\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\svchost.exe (Backdoor.Bot)
After googling it I found out irs a backdoor trojan, but also found out windows uses the svchost,exe to run
is it safe for me to remove this without messing up windows?
Thanks
Whilst I'm not an expert, I say it is perfectly safe for you to remove the fake svchost.exe file as it is in a completely different place to the real ones.0 -
Remove it
Whats the DATABASE version of the malwarebytes scan and was it a QUICK one or a FULL one?:idea:0
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