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I have some files on my OneDrive. If i download them to my hard drive, my whole hard drive gets encrypted after a couple of hours. This only happens with files coming from OneDrive. I tried Kasperky and Avira, also Hijackthis and Malwarebytes and they find nothing, so I assume this is a OneDrive problem.

Any thoughts?

This is usually caused by a RansomWare. Strangely, OneDrive doesn't seem to have an antivirus running on its servers. Probably OneDrive's filesystem is based on Linux.

What I recommend you to do and it usually works for me is to do the following:
Mount the OneDrive cloud in your Windows computer with a drive letter and then use an antivirus. The most effective for ransomware is Malwarebytes Antimalware. You download it here and you get a free trial. Don't worry.

Let's go to the steps:

1) Download rclone beta since production version has some issues with OneDrive

2) Unzip it in an easy-to-access place, usually C:rclone

3) Setup rclone in order to be able to use OneDrive
Open a Command prompt windows. Press Windows Button + R and type cmd.exe
Type:

cd

C:rclone

now type:

rclone config

Current remotes:

Name                 Type

====                 ====



e) Edit existing remote

n) New remote

d) Delete remote

r) Rename remote

c) Copy remote

s) Set configuration password

q) Quit config

e/n/d/r/c/s/q> 

Type N to add a new cloud provider (Google Drive, OneDrive etc)

Now type the name. Choose a simple and non capitalized name (ie myonedrive instead of MyOneDrive)

name>



Type of storage to configure.

Choose a number from below, or type in your own value

 1 / Amazon Drive

    "amazon cloud drive"

 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)

    "s3"

 3 / Backblaze B2

    "b2"

 4 / Dropbox

    "dropbox"

 5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote

    "crypt"

 6 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)

    "google cloud storage"

 7 / Google Drive

    "drive"

 8 / Hubic

    "hubic"

 9 / Local Disk

    "local"

10 / Microsoft OneDrive

    "onedrive"

11 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)

    "swift"

12 / SSH/SFTP Connection

    "sftp"

13 / Yandex Disk

    "yandex"

Type "onedrive" for OneDrive.

Press ENTER. Do not type anything for client_id> and client_secret>

Next, press Y if you're running rclone on the same machine.

Remote config

Use auto config?

 * Say Y if not sure

 * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine or Y didn't work

y) Yes

n) No

y/n> 

If we type Y, a browser windows will open. If you're not logged to OneDrive, it will ask you to login. Now authorize Rclone to access your files.

Success

Go back to rclone to continue



Your authorization code.

y) Yes this is OK

e) Edit this remote

d) Delete this remote

y/e/d>

If it shows a fuzzy code as your authorization code, type y.
We're done.

Mounting your OneDrive folder

First, you have to download and install WinFSP on your Windows machine.

5) Now, using the same Command prompt Window, type the following:

rclone mount yourowndrive:folder D:

*You can replace yourowndrive with your OneDrive share name and **D:** with your favorite drive letter.

Now it's done. Keep your Command prompt Window open. Install Malwarebytes' Antimalware and scan and remove your ransomware. DO NOT open your files. Mounting your OneDrive share will not affect your Windows folders as long as you don't open your files directly.
Basically, just mount the share and scan/remove viruses.