My pc was acting weird.
So yesterday when I turned on my pc and just started using it, i noticed that it was rlly laggy and i got a lot of stutters. I checked wit defender and didn't find anything, but when i went to open my task manager, my pc just restarted out of nowhere. After this I wiped my drive, should I be fine?
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have you had this computer for a while? like 2+ years?
No
Just got it around a year ago
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you wiped your drive??
:bruh_what:
just a system reboot should be enough for that
if it's not that sounds like a hardware failure
could be malware but if this is your only symptom it's probably just ordinary goofiness
What if it's a root kit
Should I get bitdefender to check?
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Mb for the pings
So should i get it?
have you recently downloadend something you shouldn't've?
NO
I'm always careful
But should I get bitdefender
do you work for the government or a fortune 500 organization?
No
Y thi
Tho
then you have fucking nothing to worry about
?
im sorry you're like the 3rd person this week to be panicked over a rootkit
Wait
and im quite tired of it
I need to tell u something
just run a windows defender full scan just to be safe
I did
you can run a bitdefender scan too if you want
but if you've already reinstalled windows
you don't have anything to worry about
But this guy I know kept telling me to download his "malware scanner"
And he kept saying that I was rootkitted
I don't know him irl
And barely talk to him
even the fucking russians agree with me on this
yea that's either a scam or a malware
doesn't matter which
I almost did
But then he told me to turn off windows defender
anti-malware is probably the third most common trojan vector behind game cheats and piracy
And then i knew it was fake
yea
a good anti malware will work alongside windows defender obviously
So can I just use bitdefender just to be safe
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if you want to
but you don't need the paid versin
Ya ik
you can just run a full scan using it, see if it catches anything, then uninstall it
Ty for the help
:slimepray:
hopefully that can at least bring some peace of mind
Ya I was stressing out a lot
Yo
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Some kinda sus things are still happening
...such as...?
random lag
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...?
that could be literally anything
is it stopping you from using your PC?
i guarantee you it's not malware
no
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ya ur right
its fine now