I received an email from a competing company that I have no quarrel with nor had I interacted with. But, it was an email to an alleged spreadsheet or some sort (not opened) just the email then placed it in the Deleted Folder in my Outlook. (Also email was viewed on my iPhone as well)
I am referring to this incident but I am not too sure if recent my Chrome was updated or maybe my Windows, don't remember. But, I just noticed some green check marks on some of desktop icons and just as I am writing this topic I looked at my desktop icons and now there is a small icon layered on the desktop icon as a 2 person-ed stick image. See attached in this post.
Now I as I am typing the icons now have (not sure if its the original windows iconed style) but have arrows on them, see attached.
A few days ago I repurchased ESET NOD32 since I had a cracked version and now have a official registration key. I've always had MWB running with my purchase.
I just ran a Kaspersky TDSSKiller and nothing was found.
ESET NOD32 Smart Security Premium, was scanned nothing found.
MalwareBytes just ran a scan now, nothing was found. Log attached.
AdwCleaner was downloaded and it I did a scan and it found 3 separate threats. See attached Log. ( I also hit Clean & Repair function )
PUP.Conduit.Heuristic 1 threats
PUP.Optional.Legacy 3 threats
PUP.OPtional.WebCompanion 4 threats
Also, before the above mentioned scans I had user named INTERACTIVE listed in the attached picture. After restarting my computer with AdwCleaner, I don't see it anymore... See attached please.
Also, this happened Aug 28 not sure if its connected to this.
Questions:
Could I have been affected through that email even if I didnt open the file?
If not, why did my Windows Desktop Icons change?
Why wasnt Malware Bytes unable to detect anything but Adware did?
AdwCleaner[S00].txt
AdwCleaner1 After restarting computer.txt