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Have you run a full scan using Windows Defender?
Can you confirm that the worm is actually running?
AV software may remove the installed worm from the system, but not from the drive.
Probably a good idea to reformat the USB drive
PS. if all else fails, nuke and pave (reinstall the computers in your household, including your linux machine)
You should do this offline, as in, quarantine the situation.
Windows defender also has an offline scan mode which may be of use here - hard to say, dunno if they ever dropped a rootkit or any other av-dodging/persistence mechanisms
Time to switch to Linux (joking)
That would be a valid option, but only if there are no windows dependencies and the primary user agrees to the change.
With all the Win11 spam in Win10, my grandmother decided to try Linux. She is now a 90-year-old Linux user. Her use case is YouTube and email, and I have to support the system (I had to do that for the win10 system as well).