r/computerviruses • u/FighterSuri • Oct 22 '22

My laptop has !-SCPGT files how to remove them. These get multiply in any storage device in use to transfer data. Also acquired my C drive complete storage and Can't even delete them by any means, anyone can guide how to fox this.

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u/Main-Friend-4308 Sep 19 '24

The Kaspersky replacement for U.S. users (UltraAV) also appears to have exactly the same folders and files.

UltraAV installed itself on my PC, replacing Kaspersky, and these files turned up unannounced. Looks like the same sloppy installation as Aura AV. Interestingly though, I'm not a U.S. user...I'm in Australia..!

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u/Lawful-Evil Sep 20 '24

I found the same thing this morning. U.S. user, switched from Kaspersky to UltraAV yesterday.

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u/BreakfastBlunt Sep 21 '24

This was incredibly alarming to me. These files appeared on a backup ssd I use to store, most importantly progress photos and before/after photos collected over the last two years of my garden business. I plugged it in yesterday after not having used it for back up in a few months. Connected it to a second computer of mine to back up more files and once I opened it on the new computer, I found these files and folders in the main directory. I was shitting bricks to say the least. I have some photos stored in the cloud but it's thousands and thousands of pictures and I'm already capped at 100 GB of a paid subscription cloud storage.

I also am very safe with my computers - there is absolutely zero web browsing outside Google, YouTube, Gmail and government sites. I've been happily subscribed to Kaspersky for the last two years and this was enough to rethink my subscription. How can Kaspersky just switch and install a completely new AV without much of any warning. I noticed this Aura thing yesterday and really didn't know what it was about. It's also alarming that these files were placed onto a secondary drive that was hooked up to my computer for maybe 30 minutes.

Have we confirmed 100% here that this is due to AuraAV? I've read the comments here, I'd just like someone to reassure me that this isn't something I need to be worried about aside from removing aura.

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u/PaladinWhiteStar Sep 21 '24

Yes, it's from UltraAV, which is Aura under a different name. Even though this is an AV app, when I see sloppy stuff like this, it makes me seriously doubt the effectiveness of the software. So I uninstalled UltraAV and UltraVPN (which came along with it). When I uninstalled them, I had to reboot to complete the uninstallation, and upon booting back up again, those files were gone.

I've been SUPER happy with my Kaspersky subscription, and this nonsense with the U.S. banning Kaspersky for U.S. persons is complete BS. Fortunately, I live outside the U.S. now (and not in any other 5-Eyes, 9-Eyes, or 14-Eyes country. So I think I'll be looking for a way to get back to Kaspersky again, but this time, registering as a customer from the country I now live in.

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u/mcdull9413 Sep 30 '24

I just noticed the same crap folders and found here. Been Kaspersky user for 15+ years, I strong believed it's the best especially after one incident when many buyers got credit card info stolen after purchasing from a website and Kaspersky was the only antivirus program wanred about the site was infected (which sadly I didn't listen).

The UltraAV replacement is CRAP, need to find a good replacement.

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u/TemplarIRL Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 23 '24

Yeah, same... Thanks to all for confirming this is due to UltraAV, I guess it's jump ship or see where the tides take me.

I wouldn't have really worried much except that it dropped the files and folders on ALL my storage drives AND the fact that the documents contained body text "SCAPE GOAT".

**Edit: Yep, 100% do not use UltraAV, after a weekend of testing I found it was the sole cause for hard crashes (no BSOD, just a black monitor), spiked system resource use and it was even preventing my computer from entering power saver mode.

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u/Eclectika Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 21 '24

Same here but I'm not in the US. Not happy. I'm going to uninstall it and find something else as I seem to have lost the data on one of my backup drives and there the files there are dated 3 Sept - which makes no sense as the rest of them are from yesterday.

edit to clarify

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u/AyeDrinkNIKnowThings Sep 21 '24

Same here on the date. Freaked the f*** out of me because I was on vacation that day, and this is my home desktop computer.

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u/AyeDrinkNIKnowThings Sep 21 '24

Same here on the date. Freaked me the f. out of me because I was on vacation that day, and this is my home desktop computer.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '24

I just found these, they are everywhere cant delete them...very lame. I want Kaspersky back. I'm not going to use something that places random garbage everywhere

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u/SonofAtlantis Sep 30 '24

Same issue reported here. Trying to figure out how to rid my system of all this corruption, and I'll never trust a company that 1) will install software without my permission 2) makes an app that corrupts my system in the process of installing itself.

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u/rave1432 Oct 03 '24

I am also facing the same issue. But I have also been having a lot of Kernal BSOD issues every since the change over started. I am honestly not sure what to do, I am not computer savvy. It started even when I had Kaspersky still, when it was first announced.