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/
hmm, I know you said that you couldn't install malwarebytes, but did you try Kaspersky? A friend of mine told me it saved his computer once
Thank you, I'll try this as well!
any luck ?
free & open source ☞
Thanks for the link! I haven't heard of it before, what makes you recommend it?
like ladfrombrad wrote, the project "has been around for years"
and most importantly it's free and open source
While I've used ClamAV and knew they had a Windows app as well as other platforms I've never heard of the above website, and it smells funny to me.
https://www.clamav.net/downloads
ClamAV has been around for years, and I'd throw caution to the wind with the above Windows executable from ClamWin......
cc: @[email protected]
it's listed on clamav "community projects" page: https://docs.clamav.net/manual/Installing/Community-projects.html
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClamWin_Free_Antivirus
their sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/clamwin/
Ah I see, that's pretty cool. Suppose it's just the look of their website that reminded me of a knock off site or something.