As the title suggest, I may have installed some malicious software called Adventurous Clotth Tool from a company called Adventurous Cloth LLC.

For context, I was looking to download Driver San Francisco and because it’s no longer available for purchase anywhere my brother recommended SteamUnlocked, which he has used before. After skimming the comments I assumed it was safe, downloaded the file(big warning sign in retrospect) and installed the program, after mentioning this to my brother he told me that it should have been the game files in a zip folder, and obviously I broke down in a cold sweat.

I have run multiple checks using Malware Bytes, Windows Defender and an offline Windows Defender scan, all of which reported no problems, however obviously I’m still scared/nervous about what I have done.

Apart from don’t be an idiot, can anyone give me some advice on what I should be doing next? I tried searching for the company and program in question, but no results have come up.

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    1 year ago

    Do you need windows? Go download Linux Mint and install it on your PC so you can dual-boot windows OR linux Mint. It’ll protect you against dumb stuff like this

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      1 year ago

      I’m all for more Linux users but that is an extreme solution to suspected malware on Windows. I do agree that dual booting is more resilient than just Windows.

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        1 year ago

        Lol for people with malware issues, it’s usually not the first or last time they’ll find a way to break something. Given how much is done on the cloud these days and how much is available for Linux, that’s usually my go to advice to prevent further issues.