malware attack

[justwondering]

I was looking around on my computer and saw that there was about 5 malware exe files on my c:/ root. After seeing them, I got really paranoid quickly. My computer is running the internet through a wireless router, but there is no file sharing going on, I think. My question is:

-If I am part of a network that is not sharing files at all, can the malware/virus/spyware be transferred from computer to computer within the network?

Please let me know.

 

[johnb35]

If you are not sharing files or accessing the infected computer then I doubt the malware will get on the other computers.

 

[lawson_jl]

You were looking around and found them. How do you know they are malware files then? What are the files? It certainly sounds as if your paranoid to me.

 

[justwondering]

paranoid? sometimes. But it wasn't like I was looking around for infected files. I was doing something when I found myself on the C: root which contained files that I had never seen before. There were about 5 of them and when I googled the names online, they were under the malware category on many sites. I don't remember what the names were, but I deleted them immediately. They were not program files or system files, I know this for a fact. I can only remember that they were .exe files. And I think most of the file names were similar to program/system file names like iexplorer**.exe and others. Hope this answers your questions about how I know they are malware files and what the files are. As stated before, paranoid? Sometimes, but with good reason and now more than ever since finding those files.

 

[techdude]

Have you scanned with Malwarebytes?

 

[ScottALot]

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[Hdk20]

Scan with MalwareBytes.