Question GOM Player set my antivirus on fire. The program is preventing me from deleting it.

kubrat

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I downloaded GOM Player from here - https://www.gomlab.com/en/gomplayer-media-player

As soon as the download was completed, my Windows virus protection went on fire.

When I tried to delete the program, I was prevented from doing so due to endless loading and a "fail to respond" message.

I restarted my PC, but same thing happened until I deleted the entire folder that GOM Player was in, along with all the programs in the folder.

I performed a quick scan of my PC, and it says there's no virus, but I'm not sure if that's enough.

Is my PC still at risk? What should I do?

I would appreciate your help. Thanks!

Update: I did a full scan, and threats were found. Uploading an image.

Scan Result:

View: https://imgur.com/a/HmCUsVw

Another updated:
I did a second scan and initially blocked the threats and then I tried to remove them but it wasn't performing the action. I did another full scan and now it shows no threats.

Adding an Image of the latest scan I performed:
View: https://imgur.com/a/4GWiehl


I am trying to see if the threats are actually deleted and not just blocked/quarantined.

Is there anything else I can do to make sure there are no viruses on my PC?
 
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it should show up as PUA.win32/GOMLab.A which doesnt pose security risk, but is classified as unwanted app, can slow down performance or reliability or change system behaviour
you can add exception to your antivirus if you want to use it

btw your scan show some bitcoin miner, if its not yours, delete those
 
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kubrat

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it should show up as PUA.win32/GOMLab.A which doesnt pose security risk, but is classified as unwanted app, can slow down performance or reliability or change system behaviour
you can add exception to your antivirus if you want to use it

btw your scan show some bitcoin miner, if its not yours, delete those
Yeah, I remember briefly seeing it was something puawin32.
I have not installed any miners.

As I mentioned, the program was preventing me to remove it as whenever I right click on it (with the intention to delete it), it pretty much caused a constant loading and I couldn't do anything but restart the PC.

Also, I have over 20 warning messages, as the Firewall kept alerting me with a new message every second, one after another. Not receiving any messages, after the scan and after I asked Firewall to take actions against the threats.

I initially blocked the threats and then I tried to remove them but it wasn't performing the action. I did another full scan and now it shows no threats.

I am trying to see if the threats are actually deleted and not just blocked/quarantined.

Is there anything else I can do to make sure there are no viruses on my PC?
 
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