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Help me figure out if i downloaded something shady, please

Hi everyone, i’d like to start off by saying that i’ve been pirating for a while and have always stuck to sites that are reccommended on various megathreads and considered safe. Sorry for the long winded explaination.

So i was downloading a game from gamdie (which i have before with no issue) and one from steamrip (i don’t remember any issues there) and the gamdie file was almost immediately flagged by WD as trojan. i didn’t even make it in time to click anything that all these other trojans started popping up and WD closed on its own. i panicked and deleted the files and tried to run malwarebytes which i thought was installed already (but apparently not) and it turns out i can’t even install it, it says the app can’t run and to check different versions. I checked on taskmanager and it seems nothing immediately fishy was there, WD gave me back a list of the trojans it found and i deleted them, firefox has acted weird a couple times (duplicating tab instead of opening new one, or opening settings instead), and some of my login info is gone from my browser. i still can’t install malwarebytes, and i’m kinda not handling this well, so any help is appreciated.

i couldn’t read what al lthe trojans are and WD won’t tell me what they are now, but i remember having seen trojan wacaca (or somehing) and trojan malmar (or something like that). Thank you!

HeavyRaptor ,

While it’s best to be safe, many of the cracks are flagged as false-positives by WD. Just because it is flagged as a Trojan, it doesn’t 100% mean it is.

deadbeef79000 ,

In future, assume everything is a hostile payload until scanned.

Microsoft provides free VM images of various versions for developers too test with, use one of them, install whatever scanning told you want, then install your suspicious payload.

Rinse repeat.

astandimandi OP ,

I will look into this, it’s really not worth taking the chance…it’s all well and good until it isn’t lol

zaknenou ,
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hmm, I know you said that you couldn’t install malwarebytes, but did you try Kaspersky? A friend of mine told me it saved his computer once

astandimandi OP ,

Thank you, I’ll try this as well!

merde ,

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astandimandi OP ,

Thanks for the link! I haven’t heard of it before, what makes you recommend it?

k6sftoloat ,

Nothing shady imo

kusivittula ,

if there’s a chance something nasty got loose on your system, i wouldn’t trust it anymore even if some antivitus succeeds in quaranteening something. if you didn’t have a primary password in your browser, all of the saved passwords may have been compromised. i would reinstall OS and change all the saved passwords.

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