So, today while checking my email my credit card company had sent me a notice stating that while they were scanning the dark web some of my personal information was found and that I should start changing my passwords with anything connected to my email basically. This was very concerning to me so I did that. A while later, I am just browsing and my browser locks up and my start bar also locks up, my mouse moves but couldn't click on anything and task manager would not come up.
I restart, and as I get to the login screen I put in my password and it says "one moment" and makes me wait long enough for me to know something is wrong.. Upon a restart I go into windows repair options and I can't run windows repair for some reason from my flash drive, so I go to cmd and try to pull up msconfig so I may start up in safe mode but it won't pull up msconfig. I then ran sfc /scannow and it comes back saying everything is ok.. So I log back into windows normally and it shows "one moment" again so I wait it out and after a few minutes it doees log back into windows and it is acting normally right now. Yesterday I ran an antivirus scan with nothing detected (using avira). So today I decided to use malwarebytes and it found one problem, pup.optional.proxygate which evidently is a trojan that can cause all of the above to happen basically?
I just found it annoying that avira didn't catch this yesterday, I am pretty sure it is up to date but I will have to double check.. Any other suggestions that I should be doing? or any thoughts in general on this would be nice, I am still concerned about my personal info being sold on the dark web..
I restart, and as I get to the login screen I put in my password and it says "one moment" and makes me wait long enough for me to know something is wrong.. Upon a restart I go into windows repair options and I can't run windows repair for some reason from my flash drive, so I go to cmd and try to pull up msconfig so I may start up in safe mode but it won't pull up msconfig. I then ran sfc /scannow and it comes back saying everything is ok.. So I log back into windows normally and it shows "one moment" again so I wait it out and after a few minutes it doees log back into windows and it is acting normally right now. Yesterday I ran an antivirus scan with nothing detected (using avira). So today I decided to use malwarebytes and it found one problem, pup.optional.proxygate which evidently is a trojan that can cause all of the above to happen basically?
I just found it annoying that avira didn't catch this yesterday, I am pretty sure it is up to date but I will have to double check.. Any other suggestions that I should be doing? or any thoughts in general on this would be nice, I am still concerned about my personal info being sold on the dark web..