What is this folder?

[pastywhitegurl]

A PluginModules folder has appeared on my desktop. I do not recall putting it there.

What is is? It contains to .dll files, pictured in screenshot. What should I do with it?

[Corrine]

In doing a search for both FusDeviceManager.dll and FusNetworkManager.dll, both had results from FreeFixer:

What is FusDeviceManager.dll?
What is FusNetworkManager.dll?

Since you have MBAM Premium, I suggest starting there with a full system scan.

[pastywhitegurl]

Sorry, I've delayed responding to run a scan.  I set up an MBAM scan that included search for root kits.  It took over 5 hours.  I checked my task manager and found that Edge had a number of processes running without the browser being open. This anomaly has slowed down my computer before, but I didn't think to check it this time.  So I attributed the long scan time to that.

This morning, I ran a threat scan that completed in 17 minutes, and then tried another root kit scan.  After a while it slowed down to the pace of last nights and MBAM is using too many resources to let it continue, but Edge isn't involved this time. No was my print spooler hogging resources.   So that seems kind of weird.   

None of the scans found anything.  Although I can't verify that the root kit scan actually completed.  When I checked my desktop to see, there was a notice asking did I really want to stop the scan?  Before I could do anything, the panel disappeared and showed the scan results.  The total files scans was in the range of my normal completed scan, but I did not write the number down, so couldn't compare with this morning's scan.

I looked in the   'c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\roaming\verizon\' folder but there was no pluginmodules folder there.

I was wondering if somehow the folder got moved to my desktop, although I don't know how that would happen, since I've never accessed that verizon folder till now.   Which brings up another question:   why is there a verizon folder anyway?  I've never used verizon for my phone service or anything else that I can recall.

Waiting for the next step.

[Corrine]

Apparently, the company name in the FreeFixer post was just one example.  According to Herd Protect, other companies create that folder as well. 

Perhaps additional information will show in a FIRST log.  You could create a new thread in the Analysis and Malware Removal Forum for review.

[pastywhitegurl]

I do have that verizon folder.  The only difference is that is is noted in all caps  /VERIZON/

I will post my logs as you suggest.

[pastywhitegurl]

Logs are posted.

I decided to try another scan that includes scan for root kit.  Before I did, I updated MBAM, but I'm getting the same result. Over 3 hours into the scan right now and its slowed to snails pace of about 1 or sometimes 2 files per second.  There are at least another 20K files left to scan.  I'll try to let it finish this time anyway.   Nothing else is taking excessive resources except MBAM process.   Something is not right. No way should it take hours to complete a full scan.  I found a report here in this forum that I made a few months ago and at that time  the threat scan was taking about 7 minutes, and the full scan with root kit was taking about 15.