Idiotically, I decided to try and download COD4 from a Mediafire, hoping to replay the nostalgic game. Upon finishing the download, I opened the first folder called "CD1", tried running the setup.exe and halfway through the install, but it closed instantly and product cd key malware instantly popped up.
A brief notification saying my UAC had been disabled popped up and my PC instantly restarted. Upon restart, a screen asking me for my Windows 10 product key popped up. I tried a hard shutdown (power button for 5+ seconds), and tried rebooting in safe mode. Instead, the Microsoft screen with options such as system restore, restarting as normal and whatnot showed up, and I immediately performed a system restore.
After signing on as normal again, I ran MalwareBytes, found lots of malware, adware and a couple trojans and removed them and restarted.
After class this afternoon, I opened my laptop back up and random malware had installed itself and started to run, I ran MalwareBytes again and proceeded to remove it.
So my question is, after getting affected by Trojans and malware, and removing it, it still somehow installed itself and ran, without the laptop being used, can someone please advise me how to ensure no more malware or viruses run and install itself? Thank you for taking the time to read this.
A brief notification saying my UAC had been disabled popped up and my PC instantly restarted. Upon restart, a screen asking me for my Windows 10 product key popped up. I tried a hard shutdown (power button for 5+ seconds), and tried rebooting in safe mode. Instead, the Microsoft screen with options such as system restore, restarting as normal and whatnot showed up, and I immediately performed a system restore.
After signing on as normal again, I ran MalwareBytes, found lots of malware, adware and a couple trojans and removed them and restarted.
After class this afternoon, I opened my laptop back up and random malware had installed itself and started to run, I ran MalwareBytes again and proceeded to remove it.
So my question is, after getting affected by Trojans and malware, and removing it, it still somehow installed itself and ran, without the laptop being used, can someone please advise me how to ensure no more malware or viruses run and install itself? Thank you for taking the time to read this.
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