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So I think I got a virus from downloading a torrent, I get this weird program in the back of my PC, its called 'mpatzums' and it plays really loud and impromptu ads in the background, I can stop it from playing but it's extremely repetitive. I already scanned and removed threats with bitdefender, so I don't know what the issue is.

 

I also have two issues with google chrome that only started after I downloaded the torrent, when I click on a link that someone has sent me (say for instance thru discord) it will load an entirely new google chrome application and not load anything, it'll just be the google chrome search bar. Lastly,  whenever I search anything in google chrome, it cuts to yahoo search engine, when I changed it already in google chrome settings...

 

Any help is appreciated greatly, thank you!

 

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On 5/21/2018 at 3:33 PM, peep said:

So I think I got a virus from downloading a torrent, I get this weird program in the back of my PC, its called 'mpatzums' and it plays really loud and impromptu ads in the background, I can stop it from playing but it's extremely repetitive. I already scanned and removed threats with bitdefender, so I don't know what the issue is.

 

I also have two issues with google chrome that only started after I downloaded the torrent, when I click on a link that someone has sent me (say for instance thru discord) it will load an entirely new google chrome application and not load anything, it'll just be the google chrome search bar. Lastly,  whenever I search anything in google chrome, it cuts to yahoo search engine, when I changed it already in google chrome settings...

 

Any help is appreciated greatly, thank you!

 

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You can try malwarebytes like LtStaffel suggested but honestly..

if it's this bad, I'd reinstall windows from scratch,

because you can never be sure you got rid of it completely until you do that.

Even that's not a guarantee anymore apparently with some viruses.

 

For future reference, stay the heck away from torrents.

Torrent sites are notorious for giving people viruses and really bad ones at that.

Thepiratebay for example will give you a mining bug that'll hijack your computer to mine bitcoin and it's really hard to get rid of from what I hear.

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