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About 2 weeks ago, a VPN I had installed in June and only used twice suddenly starting to pretend it was active, and showing up in task manager. Nothing particularly odd started happening besides the default network while at home was the 1-bar xfinity wifi that reaches my house instead of my own network that it had the key to. It also started waking from sleep mode in the middle of the night as well for the first time in a while. This morning, I opened it up to put it to sleep before leaving, and all was well. However, upon opening it up for productive use, it greeted me with the blue screen of windows 10 setup, seeming to think it was told to reset windows. When it finally did log in, the clock on the taskbar took a full minute by my estimate to appear (bear in mind it has an HDD, I had to make some compromises to get discrete graphics in my price range). Upon getting home, I found that it was again connecting to my home network. About 30 minutes later, the wifi card ceased to be available, though it was shown as sending stuff in task manager. A restart later, the same issue occurred. I tried malwarebytes and bitdefender, and between the two a trojan pretending to be onedrive was found. With this gone, I thought i was fine. However, the wifi card stopped again. This time i found that it was labeled as #2, and the original was gone. I also found an unknown device with no driver called Nettap630, though i'm sure that it's an thing, as it's showing upu in task manager as a network adapter. The wifi is now labelled as ethernet as well.
The machine is an acer aspire V5, the entire family is pretty much identical
Removed VPN that i hadn't used in months that was showing up
No problems for a while
wrong default network
seemed to reinstall windows
no functional wifi after a while
Wifi card labelled as #2 with no original present
scanned for and found a trojan and removed it
still issues
I ask here rather than microsoft or acer because you people seem more competent with problems of this magnitude
Basically, it this malware or a driver/system update worse than invading Russia in winter?
About 2 weeks ago, a VPN I had installed in June and only used twice suddenly starting to pretend it was active, and showing up in task manager. Nothing particularly odd started happening besides the default network while at home was the 1-bar xfinity wifi that reaches my house instead of my own network that it had the key to. It also started waking from sleep mode in the middle of the night as well for the first time in a while. This morning, I opened it up to put it to sleep before leaving, and all was well. However, upon opening it up for productive use, it greeted me with the blue screen of windows 10 setup, seeming to think it was told to reset windows. When it finally did log in, the clock on the taskbar took a full minute by my estimate to appear (bear in mind it has an HDD, I had to make some compromises to get discrete graphics in my price range). Upon getting home, I found that it was again connecting to my home network. About 30 minutes later, the wifi card ceased to be available, though it was shown as sending stuff in task manager. A restart later, the same issue occurred. I tried malwarebytes and bitdefender, and between the two a trojan pretending to be onedrive was found. With this gone, I thought i was fine. However, the wifi card stopped again. This time i found that it was labeled as #2, and the original was gone. I also found an unknown device with no driver called Nettap630, though i'm sure that it's an thing, as it's showing upu in task manager as a network adapter. The wifi is now labelled as ethernet as well.
The machine is an acer aspire V5, the entire family is pretty much identical
Removed VPN that i hadn't used in months that was showing up
No problems for a while
wrong default network
seemed to reinstall windows
no functional wifi after a while
Wifi card labelled as #2 with no original present
scanned for and found a trojan and removed it
still issues
I ask here rather than microsoft or acer because you people seem more competent with problems of this magnitude
Basically, it this malware or a driver/system update worse than invading Russia in winter?
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