So today, around 3 hours ago, I attempted to casually boot up a game or two (as I do regularly), and noticed that something was all of the sudden off.
When I launched my game, i noticed some kind of new lag appear, to which I though that graphics settings were at fault. Thinking that was the problem, I played it, it crashed, then I booted up another game.
When I hoped on into a match, I noticed that this game was lagging too, and so did the other one I booted up.
This would all be explanable by simply saying "my pc is wearing off", but it doesn't explain how my games can perfectly run one day ago, and then all of the sudden, all of them run like garbage.
This seemed suspicious to me, so I decided to do some digging and found, that system (32 bit) with a gray windows logo was running in task manager. I found online, that it's a trojan virus (to which removal I was not new of), and thought this was going to be a peace of cake to remove and be done with. Oh how wrong was I.
The malware doesn't allow you to go to it's file location (crashes the file explorer when you do try). I tried running windows security, full scan (which got stuck at about 75% of the scan and didn't finish) and an offline scan (which finished, but to no avail). Then I tried installing Malwarebit and adwcleaner, and both of them get closed upon opening them (Malwarebit installer and adw itself). I tried using Security Task Manager, which gets closed aswell. And to piss me off even more, now task manager closes itself from time to time, sometimes even leaving it unopenable.
After all this, I tried running Windows in Safety Mode. There, I uninstalled all suspicious applications (Which I really think weren's so) and ran Security Task Manager, which didn't find anything suspicious. I tried running Malwarebit Installer, but I simply couldn't connect to the internet for it to install. Adwcleaner ran, "quarantined" 8 items, but the problem still remained.
Now I'm sitting here, my pc fans blowing like crazy from simply doing nothing, and writting for help or tips or something, because I am deeply lost and confused and don't know what to do.
When I launched my game, i noticed some kind of new lag appear, to which I though that graphics settings were at fault. Thinking that was the problem, I played it, it crashed, then I booted up another game.
When I hoped on into a match, I noticed that this game was lagging too, and so did the other one I booted up.
This would all be explanable by simply saying "my pc is wearing off", but it doesn't explain how my games can perfectly run one day ago, and then all of the sudden, all of them run like garbage.
This seemed suspicious to me, so I decided to do some digging and found, that system (32 bit) with a gray windows logo was running in task manager. I found online, that it's a trojan virus (to which removal I was not new of), and thought this was going to be a peace of cake to remove and be done with. Oh how wrong was I.
The malware doesn't allow you to go to it's file location (crashes the file explorer when you do try). I tried running windows security, full scan (which got stuck at about 75% of the scan and didn't finish) and an offline scan (which finished, but to no avail). Then I tried installing Malwarebit and adwcleaner, and both of them get closed upon opening them (Malwarebit installer and adw itself). I tried using Security Task Manager, which gets closed aswell. And to piss me off even more, now task manager closes itself from time to time, sometimes even leaving it unopenable.
After all this, I tried running Windows in Safety Mode. There, I uninstalled all suspicious applications (Which I really think weren's so) and ran Security Task Manager, which didn't find anything suspicious. I tried running Malwarebit Installer, but I simply couldn't connect to the internet for it to install. Adwcleaner ran, "quarantined" 8 items, but the problem still remained.
Now I'm sitting here, my pc fans blowing like crazy from simply doing nothing, and writting for help or tips or something, because I am deeply lost and confused and don't know what to do.
DDD