Malware or Bad Update?

Ethan_Li · September 19, 2019

Hey y'all,

Might just be paranoid, but I might be infected. I've already scanned with malwarebytes and windows defender, and both came up clean. But I've been having some weird issues lately. Discord keeps crashing consistently (every 10 minutes on the dot, might be unrelated), System process is using around 20-40MB/s disk at any given time, and no matter what I do, absolutely no shutdown commands work. Start>Shutdown doesnt work, shutdown /s /f /t 0 doesn't work, as well as a tap of the power button does absolutely nothing. Now, I'm not sure if it's the new Windows update, or some bad malware. I did just pirate a game, but I also just updated, and I'm not sure which it is. There aren't any sketchy processes running that I've seen.

Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!

rEkmAInc1csBnlM6C85H · September 19, 2019

Hard to say what it could be with the activities you have been up to, have you tried a system restore point and rolling back the update?

18 minutes ago, Ethan_Li said:

Hey y'all,

Might just be paranoid, but I might be infected. I've already scanned with malwarebytes and windows defender, and both came up clean. But I've been having some weird issues lately. Discord keeps crashing consistently (every 10 minutes on the dot, might be unrelated), System process is using around 20-40MB/s disk at any given time, and no matter what I do, absolutely no shutdown commands work. Start>Shutdown doesnt work, shutdown /s /f /t 0 doesn't work, as well as a tap of the power button does absolutely nothing. Now, I'm not sure if it's the new Windows update, or some bad malware. I did just pirate a game, but I also just updated, and I'm not sure which it is. There aren't any sketchy processes running that I've seen.

Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!

TheDelphiDude · September 19, 2019

11 hours ago, Ethan_Li said:

I did just pirate a game

11 hours ago, Ethan_Li said:

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Other than not pirating software? A clean install. And use another system to make a Windows flash drive or DVD if needed. Unless you want to risk installing from a potentially infected flash drive.

Also, offline scanning your harddisks for malware beforehand wouldn't go amiss either.