How to remove $RIBBZ2H.exe virus from $Recycle.bin ?

Hey, i ended up with a virus on my laptop which i got from a USB flash drive yesterday, windows defender warned me about it and asked me to take actions in that matter, i even deleted some sort of a suspicious file that i copied from the USB flash drive, yet defender still shows a notification telling me that there is a threat, which happen to be located in C:/$Recycle.bin, tried to remove it with defender but i couldn't searched on my intern drive for the $Recycle.bin file to remove it manually while the hidden files option is checked yet its impossible to find, and when i use malwarebytes that i just got, everything seems fine and no threats are found, but when i disable it i get the same threat notification from defender about the threat, so i had no other option other than to quarantine it which ended the notification cycle that i got from defender, but the virus is taking a noticable amount of my storage so im trying to completely remove it manually

Hi HaythemCh

I am Dave, I will help you with this, try deleting the Recycle Bin and a new one will be created automatically.

Open a Command Prompt window as administrator:
(Click your Start Button, type cmd, right click Command Prompt in the resulting list and choose 'Run as Administrator')

Paste the following command and hit Enter:

rd /s /q C:\$Recycle.bin

Close the Command Prompt window and restart your system
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Hey DaveM121, thank you for your reply, much appreciated!

I followed the mentioned steps and things seem to work fine for now.

I guess defender did manage to remove it after all

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Last updated May 16, 2023 Views 333 Applies to: