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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/

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[–] merde 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

free & open source ☞

ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / Me / 2000 / 98 and Windows Server 2012, 2008 and 2003.

ClamWin Free Antivirus is used by more than 600,000 users worldwide on a daily basis. It comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for the link! I haven't heard of it before, what makes you recommend it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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]

[–] merde 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] merde 0 points 3 months ago

like ladfrombrad wrote, the project "has been around for years"

and most importantly it's free and open source