URGENT!! Please Help!
I have Kaspersky Internet Security. It has never done anything for me (I guess that's a good thing) until today. I get home and it tells me it detected PDM:Trojan.Win32.Generic in my texcoin-qt.exe. Wallet was running, now it's not. Icon/Application is gone. My only options were disinfect and restart or disinfect without restarting. No other way to close the alert dialogue box. Opened Kaspersky but it is not in quarantine. I have not taken action yet. No AV or security application I have ever had has done anything other than quarantine without my express permission. Has always been reversible. I have searched entire computer for files with the words "tekcoin", "tekcoin-qt.exe", and "wallet". Nothing is found. My newest wallet.bak, on another drive, is months old. If all I can do is re-download a new wallet and use my wallet.bak file, then will I get all my TEK back, just the TEK I had back in August, or is it all gone?
Sincerely
First, don't panic. Panic causes more problems than it solves.
Next, go to folder options and on the view tab, make sure "view hidden files and folders" is checked.
Then go to user\username\roaming\appdata and look for tekcoin folder. If it's there, navigate to it. Copy wallet.dat to a safe location. This will be your most up to date wallet.
If it's not there, go ahead and use your backup. In most cases, you'll recover everything unless you have some new keys. This is not guaranteed, however, so take this as a lesson to REGULARLY backup your wallet.dat file.
I'd also recommend before doing any of this that you do a hard reset (power off) and see if everything clears up. This could just be Windows being its ugly self.
Sounds likes Kaspersky deleted the tekcoin-qt.exe ,
few extra tips
after you follow Biomech instructions and get a current backup of your wallet.
While working with it right click on Kaspersky in the lower right hand corner of the Screen and pause protection
Then redownload the Tekcoin-qt.exe file, then
exclude it from Kaspersky
https://support.kaspersky.com/us/11386After excluding, Resume protection.
FYI:
If by some strange quirk, the tekcoin folder is missing from under roaming
Use
http://www.shadowexplorer.com/ and see if their a shadow backup of it.
