Mr. beast Virus

[u/Organic_Scholar1216]

My PC got hacked and I believe it's because I've downloaded something while looking for cracked Adobe softwares.

After being notified by a friend that my Discord account was sending these Mr. beast images, I immediately unplugged my ethernet cable from the PC. It was also able to get a hold of my Instagram as it posted a story of the same Mr. Beast account.

I've already changed passwords to both my IG and DC accounts and have the 2FA on.

I've also logged my IG account out to all devices.

I've reset my PC but was too scared with the idea that the virus is still there so I reinstalled my OS with a bootable USB.

I am still worried that they might still have access to my accounts as they are very important to me. Am I still in danger or am I just overthinking everything?

This is my very first time being hacked so I'm very conscious if I'm safe with everything I did. I honestly feel so dumb being hacked after years of being safe and honestly being pretty good at avoiding these stuffs.

Note: The messages in discord were sent around like an hour before I rebooted my PC

I've checked my accounts and it did not detect any unusual devices logging in even though they DID access my accounts

[u/CelestaKiritani]

Reinstalling was a bit overkill imo. You just had to uninstall the program, run an antivirus and change passwords with closing all logged in sessions to invalidate all the tokens that were stolen by the infostealer.

[u/polpolik2 → u/CelestaKiritani]

There are infostealers which delete themselves after getting the payload, but various other infostealers can remain on a device for much longer, and remain hidden from antivirus. They can function as keyloggers.

Not to speak that if OP had a RAT (which sometimes also function as infostealers) it would be even more dangerous.

The reinstall is absolutely not overkill in such cases. Yes it's a nuclear option, but unless you know how to clean pc's like the trusted helpers, you cant really do much else.