Tough Malware Removal Help

[MEDDERX]

To put it simply I got lazy which led to my computer become flooded with malware. 

 

I seem to have gotten rid of most of it but there is still something holding the door open as almost every scan I do I am still catching some. Also I had reason to believe something had gotten into chrome so I compleatly removed it after securing my account. 

 

To sum up what i have done for the most part. Run malwarebytes both in normal and safe mode with both the normal scan and a custom one scanning all of my drives (so much fun waiting 3 hours). Run windows offline scan, run windows malicious software removal tool, cleared temp files and manual removal of suspicious files. 

 

The one thing I have not tried yet out of pure laziness is booting up ubuntu and running ClamTK. 

 

Also i have one restore point from a few hours before this all happened but it fails each time I try. 

 

Im fine with installing a new windows but its kinda pointless to do unless I can be certain there is no crap in my personal files. 

 

Anybody have some helpful suggestions? 

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Id just nuke it and reinstall. Much easier and its garanteed all the stuff is gone.

 

You can scan your personal files later, but id just restore from backup if you can.

[TECHNO-BUNKER]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id just nuke it and reinstall. Much easier and its garanteed all the stuff is gone.

 

You can scan your personal files later, but id just restore from backup if you can.

Yeah I've had malware in the past and completely wiping the drive is probably the best way to go. 

[MEDDERX]

Sounds good, luckly I am building a new computer so I was already mentally prepared to start off fresh. I mostly just dont want to start up a new computer with malware already on it. 

 

As a side note though, as I mentioned I removed chrome. A bunch of malware then popped up and showed to be in the chrome file. Just did a safe mode scan and nothing was detected. Running it once more over the whole computer. 

[Tristerin]

53 minutes ago, MEDDERX said:

To put it simply I watch a lot of suspect pr0n from suspect pr0n sites

 

 

Fixed!

 

Reinstall windows, only good way to do it when you let it get flooded by the virtual herpes.

[MEDDERX]

4 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

Fixed!

 

Reinstall windows, only good way to do it when you let it get flooded by the virtual herpes.

Virtual scurvy*

[MEDDERX]

Being that I can now build my new computer since my case finally arrived. Any recommendations for what I should do with my storage drives? I cant wipe them because they have all my data on them. Just scan and pray?