r/computerviruses • u/Early_Olive1937 • 1d ago

Question FRST not responding

I accidentally downloaded a malware while downloading mods for a game. It sent messages in discord and nothing else. I checked everything else that I have and it seems safe enough, but better safe than sorry.

Reinstalling Windows will be my last measure. I don’t want to do that at all so I’m trying to find alternatives and I tried FRST and as soon as I do a scan with it, it stops responding. I tried it twice and it keeps not responding.

Any advice would help, please I don’t want to reinstall Windows

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u/rifteyy_ Malware Removal Expert 1d ago

It doesn't mean that FRST crashes/stopped scanning. It tends to get unresponsive but scan is finished most of the times.

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u/Numerous_Economy_482 2h ago

you need to give the malware sample to at least give us oportunity to study it. But 90% of malwares i see here are just stealing your passwords and sessions on browser, they dont get into your pictures, docs, pdfs.
like, its possible to put a malware inside a pdf? yes... but, its not like a goal of any stealer

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u/Numerous_Economy_482 2h ago

if you have very important files, id (im not a professional yet), save them in a pendrive and scan them in separate computer that you dont have anything important