Skypee and AutoIt3.exe, What are they really? The last few days I was getting some problems with Windows 10 Pro, special with Skypee and AutoIt3.exe! They created hidden Directories on the root of Drive C as well as a lot of .lnk files on many places of the HDDs! Are those files etc dangerous by any means? Googling did not really bring a good explanation! What are the experiences or so of MDLer? Please keep answers on the topic and refrain from not related issues! Thanks.
I just found out that on my Laptop (Acer Aspire 4752G) I got the same problem on Windows 11 Pro! In both hidden directories Google and Skypee on the root of the C Drive are the same 2 shortcuts: GoogleUpdate and Windowsupdate! And hundreds of .lnk links are now all over the HDD! Checked some of those .lnk files. they're classified as Trojans etc.! So, what the he** is going on here? Thanks for any useful answer.
On the Windows 10 Pro machine, I've the HDDs free again> That really was a hard job to do and I do not know that will last! Let's see how it would be?!
Even using Avast, and a few other AV apps, they didn't delete those .lnk files at all! more than 2870 of them just un the C Drive of the Windows 10 Pro Machine! I think I've now only one choice and that is a clean install of Windows 10 Pro again! After trying to delete some of that .lnk files, I face now more problems again. Just now I'm saving a few data from today and will LLFMT format the HDD first before installing Windows 10 Pro again. Thanks for all answers.
Most probably, the AV software will not remove the .lnk files, as it cannot distinguish between the Shortcuts created by users and the others created by the Malware. Note that it mimics the names of popular software, like Skype (a communication software) and AutoIt! 3, which is a automation language and by itself totally legit.
Even using Avast, and a few other AV apps, they didn't delete those .lnk files at all! more than 2870 of them just un the C Drive of the Windows 10 Pro Machine! I'm now reinstalling Windows 10 Pro on the desktop. Thanks for all answers.
Again, the AV will (hopefully) remove the Malware itself, but, as it does not know if the Shortcuts were all created by the Malware, it leaves them alone.
I do have backups from all of my data, therefore, I didn't lose anything! Just because of many changes done nearly every day on that computer, a 'Cloning' really didn't works, a clean install and adding the needed apps, is faster and even more secure! And such re-installing need to be done fully, including at least for the formatting of all Partition of the used HDD because I was trying first just a new install of the C-Partition only (after formatting that partition first!) and the two directories of Google and Skypee were back after the installation was done! Seems to be that they were also placed into that Recovery and Backup Partition (50 and 500 MB in size)! formatted them as well too, and now everything is back to normal I'm now letting the system show, not just the Hidden Files and Folders, but also the hidden protected System Files because those 2 Dir's are not shown by using just the show of Hidden Files and Folders! Until right now, I didn't know where those infections were coming from! Therefore I'll keep a very close on where they may be come back from! Thanks for all answers, except those which did not get a Like!
Looks like that was a real nasty one... And it's damaging the reputation of real good software like AutoIt! 3, that way. Even some MDL tools are partially written in AutoIt language, and many AVs just tag everything written in AutoIt as virus/Malware. A real shame, makes me sad.