I somehow got infected with a bitcoin miner

I’m like 80% sure that I deleted all of the malicious files (including one that Windows Defender didn’t catch) but I’m now going to put this new CPU through its paces to scan the fuck out of everything on my system just to make sure. all 500+ GB of it. I’m really hoping that there’s nothing lingering that’s going to come back to bite me later

@kasdeya aaaaaaa that’s awful. i’m sorry that happened i hope the scan is able to make you feel sure about it! how hard would it be to do a fresh install of windows? if it wouldn’t be too bad, that might be something you can eventually consider

@rowan aw thank you! tbh I do want to do a fresh install of the IoT version of Windows 10 in the next few months anyway, to get the extra 10 years of updates. it’s probably going to be at least 1-2 days of work though so I’m really not looking forward to it

I’m pretty sure this is because I was helping some people troubleshoot their GitHub code that wasn’t working on my machine :/ that’s what I get for trusting strangers on the internet I guess

@CIMB4 ooh I didn’t but that sounds like a good option! it’s actually taking forever to do the scan - it’s actually still running. so I’m not sure if I want to do an offline scan if it’s going to be another 10+ hours, but tbh I might at some point just to make 100% sure that there’s nothing left on my computer