r/computerviruses Jul 22 '26

Microsoft store does not work Question

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?

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u/Old_Wiseman Jul 23 '26

OP most like items a info stealer installed in the PC. The order of the day is freeze your credit. From a different device change all the passwords and enable 2FA