Lmao gotcha, I get your drift 😊 thanks for the help!
Can you expand on this? I'd like to hear both sides of the argument :)
Yeah I remember that happening a couple times as well, and thought it was probably nothing until I started to get some weird behaviors, it bothers me I couldn't check all the Trojan and that apparently I can't install malwarebytes and that WD isn't doing an offline scan, it just reboots the pc immediately
I keep getting very conflicting info from my pc: some logins are gone but not all of them, the pc and firefox acted up with unpredictable minor glitches for the rest of the evening but then they cleared, so I just have no idea what to even begin thinking.
Thanks for the link! I haven't heard of it before, what makes you recommend it?
I will look into this, it's really not worth taking the chance...it's all well and good until it isn't lol
Thank you for your reply! I will try the offline scan, it's a good idea! Yeah I'm definitely not gonna mess round on my native environment anymore, it's not worth the hassle really
Hi everyone, i'd like to start off by saying that i've been pirating for a while and have always stuck to sites that are reccommended on various megathreads and considered safe. Sorry for the long winded explaination.
So i was downloading a game from gamdie (which i have before with no issue) and one from steamrip (i don't remember any issues there) and the gamdie file was almost immediately flagged by WD as trojan. i didn't even make it in time to click anything that all these other trojans started popping up and WD closed on its own. i panicked and deleted the files and tried to run malwarebytes which i thought was installed already (but apparently not) and it turns out i can't even install it, it says the app can't run and to check different versions. I checked on taskmanager and it seems nothing immediately fishy was there, WD gave me back a list of the trojans it found and i deleted them, firefox has acted weird a couple times (duplicating tab instead of opening new one, or opening settings instead), and some of my login info is gone from my browser. i still can't install malwarebytes, and i'm kinda not handling this well, so any help is appreciated.
i couldn't read what all the trojans are and WD won't tell me what they are now, but i remember having seen trojan wacaca (or somehing) and trojan malmar (or something like that). Thank you!
Edit: thank you to everyone that replied, between your advice and the sources I found here (linked below) I apparently found a cryptominer and it seems my system should be clean now. I'll run some extra stuff to be sure and hopefully that will be that. Have a nice day!
https://www.reddit.com/r/antivirus/comments/jh3s0g/virus_deleted_or_not/
Hi everyone,
So i've been downloading (rsload) from the megathread, and windows defender won't cooperate. I'm basically 99.9% sure there is in fact nothing harmful, but defender detects a virus and refuses to let me set it as an exception. Even if i try it literally refuses to let me and i haven't been able to install anything (software, patches, nada). Anyone know a work around?