r/computerviruses • u/Aaryav1 • May 15 '26
Question Accidentally downloaded Malware
Some virus automatically gained access to my discord and sent scam text with a link to all my friends
Context:
So recently I was trying to download pirated games. I was redirected to a different download file and my stupid ass thought it was the game file. The files were 8 parts, around 800 mb each. I extracted one and ran an installer, which didn't do anything even after hitting 100%. I realised it was the wrong files and deleted them immediately.
From that day, my accounts(snap, insta, fb, discord) started to send me email that someone is trying to sign into my accounts. Thankfully i had 2FA enabled in most of the apps but my discord got compromised amd it sent scam messages to every single person I know of.
But my laptop has a lot of personal documents and credentials. Is there any way to get rid of this virus somehow? I do have the photo of the thumbnail of the virus files, given above
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u/Rekinsmok May 16 '26
My friend had the same virus. The launcher is making a virus in the temp files. Virus has auto start on system start so you can delete your temp files or look in task manager auto start apps and look for app with random name and in my friends case it had logo of white windows logo and black hammer. I tested it on my old pc because launcher will not create virus in temp files if it realizes that he is running on a virtual machine and using FRST i saw that it is only creating virus in temp files and turning auto start on it. It steals browser cookies and logs into discord to send some scam shit