A new strain of malware detected as Coinminer.Win32.MALXMR.TIAOODAM, will install a cryptocurrency miner on a victim's system uses a Windows Installer MSI file to avoid detection and security filters. It will then hide in the AppData folder which is normally hidden. It password protects some...
On Win7-64 I just tried renaming a folder so the NVidia driver installer wont see it.
But I found something peculiar when putting a space then period at the end of a folder name, the folder vanishes!
ie folder named "update.core"
changed to "update.core ."
It disappears even with show hidden...