malware Need Help With Malware

[Voltz]

Today I experience malware on my pc, it looked like Skype but it was like a porn site, no I do not watch porn on here, I have a vpn, avg antivirus and malwarebytes on the pc, on task manager I found several Skype.exe processes which I ended and deleted, scanned and wiped with avg, malwarebytes, HitmanPro and Windows security, I have reinstalled windows as an update, I chose the option to keep personal files and apps. The two possible ways i got the malware were by the two games I installed from the Microsoft Store, Car Mechanic 2018 and Extreme Offroad, don't know which did it but I dont know anywhere else where i got the malware.

 

The problem I have is that I dont know if that did the trick, according to the scans the pc is clean, but in the task manager I see repeated processes, Nvidia Container, COM surrogate, Runtime Brooker, btw I have deleted all of Nvidias software. Did the same for avg due to more processes appearing after a restart.

 

are these repeated processes normal or should I do a format wipe and reinstall of windows? 

 

 

[ki8aras]

you chose to keep your files so some of the aforementioned processes(nvidia etc) could have carried over

[Voltz]

I Deleted all of Nvidias software to see if the processes would disappear.

[Eigenvektor]

"Runtime Broker" is a Windows process. It manages permissions for Microsoft Store apps. Having that running multiple times is not a clear indication of malware.

 

Likewise "COM Surrogate" is a system process from Windows, that is used to host services. So it is normal to see multiple of these running and it is not a clear indicating of any malware.

[camieabz]

It's probably just me, but I'd stop Gaijin and Blizzard processes from being present, other than when running the game.

[Mark Kaine]

why would you delete nvidia stuff if you have a nvidia card it won't function properly. 

 

Also that startup screen is a nightmare, so is half of your processes, I would clean install and not install any crap you found on the internet anymore tbh. 

 

- - OK regarding nvidia 

3 hours ago, Voltz said:

I Deleted all of Nvidias software to see if the processes would disappear.

run DDU in safe mode, remove everything nvidia and see if those two processes disappear. if not it's time to fresh install with no carry overs from old system (imo)