r/computerviruses

My brother has an old PC that he constantly uses to download files from shady untrustworthy sources, Its like hes treating his old pc as a guinea pig for his experiments and tbh im worried that his habits could eventually affect my own PC... so it it possible for malware or any virus to jump between devices on the same network, or am i overthinking this?

It’s called Trojan32: WinSteal SA. Not sure what to do

I've noticed that after being hit with It, my account spotify was used to play some Brazilian music, pretty confusing cause I can't think up of anything, I doubt they'd sell off/share my account with the email unchanged

arkadaşlar selamlar çok kafamı kurcaladı,bilgisi olan yardımcı olursa çok sevinirim. Oyun için bilgisayara h1le indirdim kullanamadım fakat indirdim tüm virüs korumalarını kapatıp.(trojen vardı sanırım ki çoğu h1lede var zaten) şimdi bilgisayara format attım tedirgin olduğum için, herhangi bir sorun yaşar mıyım acaba bilgisayarı da yeni almıştım1 ay önce 5080 var gpu olarak. yoksa bilgisayarı ilk aldığım gibi olur mu (mining veya donanıma zarar gelmesinden korktum)

Hi everyone,
My name is Bravey, and I’m looking for some advice because I’m pretty worried about a possible malware infection.
A few friends and I were making a Minecraft video, and we wanted to use the FapCraft mod. We found a website called fapcraftx.com and downloaded what we thought was the mod. All four of us downloaded the file, but I’m the only one who actually placed the JAR into my Minecraft mods folder and launched Minecraft with it through Modrinth.
When I launched the game, the mod showed up as an “Unknown” mod instead of displaying a normal name. It also didn’t seem to work correctly. Later, one of my friends checked the file with a Java malware scanner (I’m not sure exactly which one), and it reportedly detected something called “WeeDHack.” That’s when I started worrying that I may have run malware.
As soon as I found out, I took several steps:
Logged out of most of my important accounts.
Changed the passwords on the important accounts I could access immediately.
I haven’t changed the password to my main email yet because I don’t currently have access to the phone used for two-factor authentication. However, I did change the password to my backup email, which I use for account recovery.
Ran a full Microsoft Defender scan. It ran for around 8 hours. It cleaned up some files but never fully completed because I had to restart my computer.
Ran Malwarebytes afterward, which detected around 57-87 threats (I don’t remember the exact number). I quarantined/removed everything it found.
Ran a second Malwarebytes scan afterward, and it came back clean.
Since then, I haven’t noticed any suspicious logins, unauthorized account activity, or strange behavior on my PC. That said, I also haven’t really been using the computer because I’ve been afraid to.
My questions are:
Based on everything I’ve done, is there anything else I should do?
Is it possible that I’m still infected even though Malwarebytes is now clean?
Should I consider reinstalling Windows just to be safe?
Are there any logs or scan results I should upload that would help determine whether I’m actually infected?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Greetings friends, it bothered me a lot, I would be very happy if anyone with knowledge could help. I downloaded hack to the computer for the game, I couldn't use it, but I downloaded it by turning off all virus protections. (there was trojan, I think most of it is already available in hack) now I formatted the computer because I was nervous, I wonder if I would have any problems, I just bought the computer 1 month ago, there is 5080 as a gpu. (I was afraid of damage to the hardware) please help

can ini files be viruses?

I commented this in another thread but I'll copy paste as it's own post cause I obviously still worry:

I got hit with Lummastealer recently

been 3 days and so far I've sent spam shit on discord, uploaded an Instagram story, and my LinkedIn account got its email changed which I'm trying to regain access to, but I have 0 stuff/info on there anyway. I unplugged the PC from the internet and ran an offline scan which caught it.

I can't do a fresh windows install for a few months because of work, which sucks

what I've done immediately and repeatedly has been deleting all info/cookies from chrome, changing all the passwords on the sensitive accounts, enabled passkeys and 2FA, and seem to have regained them back. I did all this from my phone, not the infected PC. My main google account hasn't shown any suspicious activity (first thing I changed password on immediately), just a secondary one which I was apparently logged in at the point where I got my shit stolen

it's the first time it happened to me, ever. It is dreadfully stressful, and since I can't do a fresh windows install I've just been doing every malware scan under the sun and nothing showed up (doubt it was ONLY lummastealer that I got hit with but so far it seems that way) since Windows Defender first caught it and deleted it the day off

I'm working under the assumption that the malware did it's thing by stealing my credentials and isn't in my computer anymore, but only because I have to for peace of mind. As soon as I finish my current work I'm gonna nuke all the drives and reinstall windows just to be safe

Basically, I downloaded Far Cry 5 from Ocean of Games about a year ago. When I checked my Outlook account, I noticed a login attempt that happened around the same time I downloaded the game.but I had a Google code verification so the attempt might be failed.

I also reviewed the activity from that day and saw suspicious processes with names like Proxifier.exe, U.exe, and Administrator.exe.

I believe I deleted the game within a month. Since then, my CPU idle usage has consistently been around 4–6%. I've run both a full Windows Security scan and a deep scan with Malwarebytes, and neither found any threats.

Over the past year, I haven't noticed any performance issues, unexpected pop-ups, or unusual behavior. My laptop is almost always plugged into the power cable, so battery drain isn't something I can judge.

I can't reset Windows because I have important files on my computer.

Based on all of this, am I 100% safe?

I just found out k lite codec comes with shaddy adware and such and I used it for a while, i couldnt find any adware by searching but who knows. Should i reinstall Windows just to be safe?

hi there i have been infected with malware session stealer, they logged to my account and published crypto scam story on my account till now i got on top of it in time but pc still infected,

probably after i installed forza horizon 6, also installed some dll fix for gpu wasn't capable to run the game before, they are my prime suspect)

already followed the guide qteps and uploaded files to general chanel

Keyword for FRST.txt synced-ace

Keyword for Addition.txt amber-chestnut

Keyword for SecurityCheck.txt lucky-petal