What could be this? A new boot option appeared with a weird name
Today when I turned my PC on I saw this:
https://i.imgur.com/jHQLKcj.jpg
What could it be? A virus? A spying software?
Posted Mar 22, 2019, 9:10 PM UTC
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This is Malware. Backup your personal files, format the HDD to zero's using a program and re-install windows. This would be the best course of action. if you do not wish to do this, Use a different HDD to re-install windows OS.
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You’re sure?
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Use EasyBCD to easily understood the boot entry and drive path.
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If you select it, what happens?
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I am afraid to do that.
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It looks like a glitch. Only one way to find out.
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What if I trigger a virus or something
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If you restart the computer, does it show up again?
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What's the output of bcdedit? Run it from an elevated command prompt.
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Something has modified your bootloader configuration. It would be hard for this to be an accident and it's not something that would happen from corruption.
Personally I'd poke around from the win 10 syslogs to see if I could determine what did this. I'd look for hidden partitions. And I'd probably reformat unless I could positively identify whatever it was that did this.
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Tough to say for sure. It could be malware, it could be something weird going on with your hard drive, it could be something else altogether writing garbage information to the bootloader.
One thing to try: boot into Windows 10, click the Start button, type 'msconfig' without quotes, and hit Enter. This will take you to the System Configuration program, where you can click the 'Boot' tab to see where the jumbled boot entry is pointing. That might provide some insight, and you're right where you need to be to delete that entry anyway.
Thanks I will try