Update: When I first bought my USB IDE-adapter I liked it a lot so bought a second to be sure of having a backup. Just to be thorough, I set up my infected hard-drive with the brand new adapter (by Cable s to Go), and the corrupted drive WAS finally recognized. Somehow, between the scan of the data drive from the corrupted computer and trying the main drive a problem occured. So, I scanned it with MalwareBytes last night.. it took over 6 hours, and found nothing mailcious.. and I think it only searched the first (of two) partitions. This morning I tried Emsisoft. I specifically designated the attached, corrupted, drive for scanning, but it started with C: and appears to be going through ALL drives on the computer plus the corrupted one. In just under 2 hours, it is up to the corrupted drive, has found EIGHT risks, including four on the corrupted drive (when I first downloaded Emsisoft it scanned my good C: drive and found nothing wrong.. today some of the at risk files were on C
. Still running (73% done).
I'll post final results. If all works out well, looks like I'll be buying the Emsisoft program and dropping Verizon's Security Suite (which as I mentioned above, I think just changed programs)
In today's PCMAG post it mentions a Comodo Cleaning System 6 as a good, free AV program.. anyone familiar with it?
Thanks again all
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