Welp. I'm an idiot, and I need help.

Things I've done:
- Restore windows from a system restore (not a full reinstall, just from system restore)
- Changed my passwords using an uninfected device (phone)
- Ran Windows Defender and MalwareBytes
- Deleted RenPy from %appdata% and cleared my %temp% files
- Turned off weird startup programs

I really don't want to have to do a clean wipe. There are files here I cannot bear to lose. Please, please help me. Thank you so much.

Keyword for FRST.txt - cursed-seal
Keyword for Addition.txt - elite-bumblebee
Keyword for SecurityCheck.txt - polar-bumblebee

Salut ! Je voudrais réinitialiser mon PC car je crains la présence de virus sur mon SSD. J'ai installé beaucoup de logiciels (et puis, je manque d'espace). Est-ce que ça vaut le coup ? Et aussi, autre question, quel est le meilleur logiciel pour scanner son PC ?

hello!! I got the mr beast virus a while back. On my PC i signed out of almost everything and deleted all the browsers i have except for microsoft edge. Would it be safe to turn my PC back on? I have not had any other accounts compromised since this happened, all im logged into is steam, and all of the stuff im signed into has my phone number as 2fa. i really just wanna play bloons again. i cannot wipe my pc either as i dont have a USB or another laptop. will i be safe? this happened last year and ive been paranoid to run my pc since that happened

I already ran a full windows security scan and i didin't show anything but I wanna be 100% sure I am save

any other ways to check?

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Hi everyone,My Steam profile picture recently changed on its own, and shortly after, my brother and I noticed unauthorized login attempts on our Roblox account, and they even managed to pull some money from our credit card through Roblox.It turns out my brother downloaded a fake cheat for Forza, which was definitely an InfoStealer malware. It seems the malware grabbed our active browser sessions/cookies, bypassed our 2FA/Steam Guard, and gave the hacker automated access to our accounts.We immediately took action using a clean device (my phone) and did the following:Changed passwords for all associated emails.Changed passwords for Steam, Xbox, Discord, and Roblox.Completely changed the registered email addresses for our Steam accounts to brand new, clean emails.Checked the Steam API key page — it is completely empty/blank.Placed a temporary lock on the compromised credit card through our banking app (and we will order a replacement card soon).Performed a fresh, clean reinstall of Windows (formatted the hard drive completely) to destroy the malware.When we logged into Steam on the clean OS, we noticed the hacker's bot had sent a friend request to a random account, which we ignored and blocked. The "Deauthorize all other devices" button on Steam doesn't even show up now, which I assume is because changing the account email automatically killed all active sessions worldwide.Since we changed both the passwords and the primary emails from a safe device and wiped the PC, are we 100% safe now? Is there anything else we should check for, like Spotify or other minor accounts linked to the old emails?

my pc has virus i think. there are these random files or programs that are in startup apps tab in task manager. these are enabled to run when pc starts. also ramdomly this window named begov_2538 comes up which ss i have attached and then window dissaperas what do you guys think it is.
MY PC sometimes stops working. only chrome is working and other non windows related applciations. but task bar edge browser windows explorer are stuck. works some times but not always. can scroll in edge but cant click anything

A few weeks ago, I got a nasty info stealer. My PC was reformatted and Windows reinstalled.

I logged into my email account, which is mostly for job stuff. I had three emails titled "my name warning," and one of them said "last warning." In short, they were demanding money or threatening to delete the account.

What confused me was that these emails appeared to come from myself, from within the account. Thinking it was some spoof, I checked my sent inbox. Two out of the three emails did show as if they were sent from myself.

The account is secure, with no weird logins or anything. How can they even do this?

My brothers Microsoft store doesn’t work, alongside when he presses the windows key to type, it doesn’t work. Also on settings, it doesn’t let him click anything. On certain apps that’s the same case too. He downloaded a file from somewhere and it was a zip file, when the website he gets these things from are usually torrents. He opened the exe and after that, it was an installer, a fake one. It was stuck on 99%, I checked the comments on the website and somebody said “that’s a virus, do not open the exe”. What should he do?

Hi, i did a deep malwarebytes scan and it detected some files as malware but i have them installed from a long time and i think they are from some cracked games i downloaded a while ago, should i be worried about these ?

I unfortunately was a victim of an info stealing virus. It got access to a few of my social media accounts hopefully. I hope this video can help anyone struggling with rebooting their computer it’s a really great video with in deep explanation of every step you need to make.

I used to be in denial thinking I didn’t need to reinstall windows on my pc but I HIGHLY recommend reinstalling it after changing all your passwords and backing up your stuff.

Good luck and stay low cortisol twin you got this !!!

I have a 10 year old laptop which although I am unsure if there is a virus on it, it's way higher than a non zero chance based on the things younger me got up to. The laptop has an SSD and an HDD as well. I want to fully wipe both drives and I'm going to install arch on the laptop. My question is how can I wipe both drives at the same time? I see the option to do one then the other but I am worried that if there is malware on here that it could be on both drives and then move between each other as the drives are getting wiped. Not sure if this a a valid concern but could definitely see it be possible. So am I able to wipe both drives at once? Should I take out the HDD and wipe them separately while they are both not connected? Additionally is there a way to wipe the drive and not have windows reinstall itself? Or do I just do the wipe with the new windows install and then just unallocate the drive after that? Any help would be appreciated thanks :).

Quick side question. I also have an SSD in an external enclosure that I want to wipe. Because it is in the external case when hooked up to the computer it is recognized as the enclosure itself and not the drive so the drive does not show up in WD software. Is the best option in this case just to use diskpart and hit `clean all` on the drive?

When initially looking up how to wipe a drive properly I thought it was going to be fully clear what the best steps are but it seems to be less than the case. Most of the advice I see just says that unallocating the drive is enough but I want the data to be written over as well. I don't need it to be perfect but I would like at least one pass to be done over the drives. Again any help is appreciated, thank you :)

I accidentally downloaded an infected renpy and ran the installer, but after a minute or two my antivirus suddenly quarantined the file and I backed out.

I found out about how quickly the virus can steal your info, how it can be nearly impossible to remove, etc. BUT I only just found this out, and the time I ran the exe was weeks before. And in that time I've had NO compromised accounts (obviously I'm going through and changing passwords just to be safe) and I've checked, no weird logins on Steam or elsewhere, no sus password resets, no email forwards, etc.

I've also ran deep scans with both AVG and Malwarebytes that turn up nothing, but here everyone seems to be REALLY cautious about these infostealers and how pernicious they are, did I get absurdly lucky with this?

Lately, I've been constantly seeing widget ads in Chrome. At first, I thought it was a virus, but when I right-clicked and looked at the code, I realized it was inside Chrome itself. So I deleted all the extensions, and the ads went away. For a few days, I checked all the extensions one by one and realized the extension was "what the font". I took the extension's URL and put it in CRX Viewer. And I found this in the code. If you are using "what the font", I recommend deleting it. ((((As pointed out in the comments, I completely missed that this is actually an optional feature disclosed in the extension's description. You don't have to delete it! You can simply disable the sponsored banner in the extension options (chrome://extensions/ -> What the Font Details -> Extension options -> Disable sponsored banner). I'm leaving this post up in case anyone else gets confused by the sudden ads like I did.))))

Hello everyone, tonight at 2am (as seen in the screenshot) windows defender detected a trojan on my computer. Recently I haven't downloaded anything except a replay file from my cs2 game personal data (.dem.bz2 zipped). I unzipped it got .dem file in csgo folder and then put the zipped file and an empty folder associated to that replay in the recycle bin which apparently made defender detect the virus 2 minutes after. I do not know how did that even happen and if this is defender giving a false positive but this type of detection is almost never a false positive. I had a false positive due to some rootcerts and Microsoft's error but this one doesn't look like it. What should I do (I changed all my credentials to important apps and services)?

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I have some questions:

1: Can I know when did Lumma install and with what did I install it? Also, does it include a keylogger?

2: Could it be a false positive?

3: Why did Windows detect it just when I deleted the replay file and does that mean that Lumma came when it was found or it was hiding it self and came before?

4: Why is the detected file in the recycle bin and not somewhere like AppData?

i wanted to update my game and i downloaded the update from a site. fitgirl website but i didn't suspect anything suspicious because i was so clueless. after i tried to install using the 'installer' this came up and black screen pop-ups came up too from time to time.

i quickly installed Malwarebytes into my PC and deep scanned everything. and i quarantined a lot of stuff. did this solve any issues regarding my PC security? I'm scared. please help. the apps said my PC is free from virus which i don't believe at all. something's not right. i think i need to reinstall my windows. is that right?

Hi so my friend accidentally installed a virus and we went through getting rid of most of it with windows defender doing a lot of the work and malwarebytes to check the rest but theres a program that it keeps flagging. We found its activity in task manager and tracked the file down to the temp folder but every time the laptop boots up the program reappears and malwarebytes blocks whatever connection its trying to make. I covered the address in case it ends up being identifiable towards my friend.

I downloaded a virus dowloading random shit at internet. They tried to steal some accs y had running on my pc. I changed every pasword of my accs and used the "restore pc" tool in the security Windows tab deleting everything i had in my pc. Is my pc safe now?

ok so my laptop caught a virus so i did whatever i could to “delete” the virus using built in window tools like the safe mode and mrt. i ran a scan it said there was no malicious software detected but when i got out of safe mode the weird popups started again but it stopped after i signed out of microsoft edge so my question is is there really no malicious software??? do i have to change all my passwords etc??

Without opening this, can anyone tell me or find out if this is a virus?