Oct 28, 2018, 03:36 am
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!
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!
