I got a serious Malware on my PC

[Super panda]

Hey,

 

So I have this really weird issue with my PC these that I noticed recently. I was playing a game (Elden Ring) a few days ago and then I noticed my CPU usage is around 70%-75% instead of 15%-20% which is the normal CPU usage for when playing that specific game. I should also mention that this tanks my FPS aswell (From 130 FPS to like 85 FPS, basically my PC becomes a big CPU bottelneck when this happens). The interesting thing this is that whenever I go to task manager to check why the CPU usage is so high, My CPU usage becomes normal again, so in game it's around the 15%-20% that it used to be and my FPS is as it should be. Then after 10-15 min the same thing happens until I alt + tab and go to task manager and CPU usage goes back to a normale 15% usage. 

 

Now I thought this only happens when playing game... but no, I was wrong, this even happens in desktop when doing daily stuff, not just in games. When this happens my CPU usage is around 70% or so and I can hear the fans of my AIO cooler ramping up so I know it's this issue again and the only way to resolve is it check a software (like cpu z, Cpuid HWmonitor, Task manager etc) that shows the CPU usage and then CPU usage goes down again.  To give an example of how bad this issue is, before I had this issue my GPU score in 3Dmark time spy was 40000 + with RTX 4090 and I had a CPU score of 20000+ with my 13900K , now with this random high CPU usage I get a score of 28000-30000 for my RTX 4090 (CPU bottlenecked) and a score of 11000 for my 13900K.

 

So at first I thought maybe there is some kind of malware that's making me have this weird issue, so I ran a multiple tests malware bytes, adw cleaner etc etc and while I found some malwares, none of them were the cause of this issue. I also deleted some useless software, no success. I should also mention that this random high CPU usage only happens when I'm connected to internet. If I disconnect the internet, this doesn't happen hence why I still think this is malware/software related. It has nothing to do with software update or any other program, there is litterally nothing that uses so much CPU usage when this happens, it's not detectable in task manager, the only way I see the high CPU usage is whenever I have the Riva tuner OSD turned on so I can monitor the FPS, CPU usage etc. My PC is pretty optimised and I have no overheating issues.

 

Honestly I never had such a weird issue before... If anyone has any idea how to fix this or how to troubleshoot , that would be much appriciate it. Ofc reinstalling windows is one way to probably fix this issue but that costs way too much time and energy.

 

I finally came to the conclusion that this is just a hidden malware on my PC. What this malware does to my PC is:

 

High CPU usage when connected to internet (If there is no software on background to monitor the CPU usage)

Disabling Virus & Threat protection in Windows Security (can be enabled manually but will be disabled again after a few restarts)

 

What I have tried so far to solve this issue but no succes:

- Running adw cleaner

- Running Malware bytes

- Running windows Defender Scanner

- Running bunch of other Anti virus programs

 

My PC Spec:

 

GPU: Asus Rog Strix White RTX 4090 OC

CPU: i9 13900K OC

CPU Cooler: Corsair H170i 420mm Elite Capellix AIO 

Motherboard: Z690-A Asus Rog Strix Gaming Wifi D4 White

Ram: 16 GB G.Skill Trident Z loyal 4800 Mhz CL 18

PSU: Corsair 1200Hi Platinum PSU

Case: Corsair 7000D Airflow

OS: Windows 11 Pro with latest updates and drivers

 

Looking forward to some response. 

Thanks a lot in advance!

[Shimejii]

Its Pretty damn hard to get malware nowadays if you are careful. What exactly were you downloading? Were you pirating games or downloading things on a sketchy website? Tracing back your steps would probably help.

 

I would suggest Wiping the Entire system and all drives. Making sure everything is wiped and not plugging anything into it, making sure its disconnected and then voila.

 

It honestly sounds like you may have some sort of crypto miner type thing since those really only work when they can connect to something and when it detects you opening a monitoring software it hides itself. They can be quite tricky.

 

 

Also just curious, why is your ram capacity so low? Why did you not get a 2x16 32GB kit? It seems you have a DDR4 Kit with a 13900k,which isnt the best match.

[Super panda]

18 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

Its Pretty damn hard to get malware nowadays if you are careful. What exactly were you downloading? Were you pirating games or downloading things on a sketchy website? Tracing back your steps would probably help.

 

I would suggest Wiping the Entire system and all drives. Making sure everything is wiped and not plugging anything into it, making sure its disconnected and then voila.

 

It honestly sounds like you may have some sort of crypto miner type thing since those really only work when they can connect to something and when it detects you opening a monitoring software it hides itself. They can be quite tricky.

 

 

Also just curious, why is your ram capacity so low? Why did you not get a 2x16 32GB kit? It seems you have a DDR4 Kit with a 13900k,which isnt the best match.

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, doing a fresh install of windows is probably the way to go but just too lazy. I was wondering if there was an easier way to remove this malware.

 

And not sure how I got it tbh.

 

Well, 16GB of ram used to be more than enough back in the days, and still enough till this day if you are only gaming. 16GB DDR4 4800Mhz CL18 isn't that bad with 13900K

[Shimejii]

2 minutes ago, Super panda said:

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, doing a fresh install of windows is probably the way to go but just too lazy. I was wondering if there was an easier way to remove this malware.

 

And not sure how I got it tbh.

 

Well, 16GB of ram used to be more than enough back in the days, and still enough till this day if you are only gaming. 16GB DDR4 4800Mhz CL18 isn't that bad with 13900K

I mean if you are ONLY gaming you should have gone with a 13700k tbh ;o  Since the diminishing returns for 13900k arent really there lol.

 

You cant be lazy with Malware and such, Its pretty much immediate wipe and start over. 

[Scorpion_3381]

try spy hunter 5

 

 

[MarkSwe]

28 minutes ago, Scorpion_3381 said:

try spy hunter 5

 

 

True, Self i re-installed a clean Windows 10  So now i dont have it anymore