hi ! im quite new to these forums, but i think some of you might help me.
i was dealing with some torrents of different games, and i got rootkit infection from those. i scared quite a bit, and o readed from somewhere that if i reinstall windows COMPLETELY it will get deleted. well, i did that. after i updated windows and all that stuff, i noticed that my disk usage is all the time around 98-100%, and i didnt even use the pc. i ran antivirus scan with free version of avast. it said that i got 3 infections. they were all rootkits, and i clicked on 'delete'. it didnt do anything, just stayed there. i changed the option to 'move to karantine' - same thing, didnt do anything. well i kept spamming both of them, and then avast asked me to restart my pc and ran a scan when windows starts. i didnt do that. then i ran a scan with antibytes malware, and it said that i didnt have any infections. i reinstalled windows once again, and ran antivirus several times. nothing. i also ran some rootkit finders like rootkitrevealer, roguekiller,tdsskiller and spohos virus removal tool, and they found nothing. i also tried with antibyte malware's own rootkit finder, and it didnt find anything. now my disk usage is normal, but im still quite scared that if i have the rootkits. so do you guys have any ideas, any really powerful rootkit finders, any suggestions anything, what i could do? or did i got rid of the viruses ? im quite new to viruses and such since i havent had much to deal with them, but this one really shocked me.
i was dealing with some torrents of different games, and i got rootkit infection from those. i scared quite a bit, and o readed from somewhere that if i reinstall windows COMPLETELY it will get deleted. well, i did that. after i updated windows and all that stuff, i noticed that my disk usage is all the time around 98-100%, and i didnt even use the pc. i ran antivirus scan with free version of avast. it said that i got 3 infections. they were all rootkits, and i clicked on 'delete'. it didnt do anything, just stayed there. i changed the option to 'move to karantine' - same thing, didnt do anything. well i kept spamming both of them, and then avast asked me to restart my pc and ran a scan when windows starts. i didnt do that. then i ran a scan with antibytes malware, and it said that i didnt have any infections. i reinstalled windows once again, and ran antivirus several times. nothing. i also ran some rootkit finders like rootkitrevealer, roguekiller,tdsskiller and spohos virus removal tool, and they found nothing. i also tried with antibyte malware's own rootkit finder, and it didnt find anything. now my disk usage is normal, but im still quite scared that if i have the rootkits. so do you guys have any ideas, any really powerful rootkit finders, any suggestions anything, what i could do? or did i got rid of the viruses ? im quite new to viruses and such since i havent had much to deal with them, but this one really shocked me.
My Computer
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- OS
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