Virus downloaded from EaseUS torrent last night
#1
Hi everyone!
Not sure if this is the right place to post this but hoping someone can help or guide me in the right direction.

Went to piratebay.online last night and searched for EaseUS to get a copy of Partition Magic. Grabbed the top one which looked recent and had heaps of seeders. I was drunk and a few things should've been red flags - such as the fact that it said it had over a thousand seeders, the multiple copies of the same program multiple times by users whose names were random letters... Anyway. Tried installing the program prior to going back and realizing these things. Installer goes through it's process, but never finishes. Crack also is a setup exe which effectively does the same thing. Finally I realize something is up but the program is already installed. Shut down my internet connection and try to find out what happened. Task manager is showing me running 100% CPU and things called "dilute" and "happily" keep popping up - multiple instances of this thing. Just prior to this some kind of screen pops up regarding Admin permissions which I don't read properly before hitting cancel.
I decide to restore windows to a previous version. The "dilute" and "happily" things aren't appearing anymore, everything seems stable. I've been preloading Fallout 76 and try resuming it but it can't seem to do it. Try downloading the temp files, but access is denied. Try uninstalling Bethesday Launcher - access denied. I'm trying to pinpoint if it's just Bethesda and while doing that I'm seeing a few program folders with strange names, things I haven't installed. I should note this is all occurring on my F drive, not my main Windows drive C:. I copied and pasted stuff from my F drive (music, downloaded shows etc) onto other drives, uninstalled a bunch of other programs from F drive and am doing a slow reformat now. I've also installed Avast which can't seem to detect a virus, though I'm running the free version.
I'm sure I'm missing details but I just wanted to see if someone was aware of these files that were uploaded to TPB - I checked today and the ones I saw last night are all gone so it's clear someone knew something was up. Have I done enough to clear my PC? Are there extra precautions I'll need to do?
Any help much appreciated!
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#2
Ouch. Sounds like you shouldn't download software for windows from torrents if you're unsure of the uploader. I would do a format of all drives and fresh install of Linux Mint.

https://linuxmint.com/download.php

You can find iso's here.
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#3
A little to late, but as you said yourself, those red flags should've stopped you. I'd recommend that you should always look at the uploader, and preferbly go for those with either a purple or green skull. While we try to make sure that these users are never hacked, but sadly, we don't live in a perfect world. The chances of getting a bad torrent with purple skulls are low, and even slimmer with green skulls, it still can happen (mostly they are just false positives). There's also users (like me) who have a mod logo besides their names.

Well, shit happens. Is your F drive a separate disk? If so, I'd recommend detaching the power cable to harddrive/ssd disk before re-installing Windows and especially Anti-virus and spyware tools. After that. Re-connect your F: drive and scan it.

Hopefully someone can recommend some tools. I sadly can't
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#4
Thanks for the help friends! All seems to be working in order - formatted F drive, CCleaner cleaned up my registry, reinstalling stuff with no hiccups and nothing untoward seems to be sitting on my HD. My only real concern is passwords etc. I use Chrome and use a Google sign-in - is it possible this info could've been hacked into?
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#5
Do you need a pirate version? Easeus and many other have free versions to download from official sites (limitations and ads may apply), but they worked for me. About the passwords, it would be higly recommended to change them and adopt a pwd manager, just in case. Sign-in to Google, Facebook, or anything only while needed, they'll track you.
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#6
(Oct 28, 2018, 03:36 am)DrCraniax Wrote: Went to piratebay.online last night

I would recommend using the official site.

https://thepiratebay.org/

http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/ <<< Tor
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