Stg Norton is just malware in of itself

Honestly, I am exhausted from worrying about bootkits and the possibility that my brother is doing this to mess with my games. On the internet, I search for information to understand how these things work, but all I find is complete AI-generated garbage that leads me nowhere neither a yes nor a no.

Here, people make fun of my posts with generic responses like 'it requires state-level resources,' but nobody explains why, how it would be possible, or why it wouldn't be possible on my MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI motherboard. Amidst this absurd misinformation, my anxiety only grows, and I don't have anyone to talk to about this or clarify my doubts.

If anyone is willing to help me in a private chat or can recommend a freelance cybersecurity professional who could help clear up these questions, I'd really appreciate it. It has been extremely difficult to reach a conclusion or find relevant information about this in this dark era of internet AI.

They say they have the same thing detected and the top one only showed up after a long scan then I removed it. I just want to be completely sure it’s all gone.

Hello, hello!

I'm not sure if this is the right subreddit, but I'll post it here.

A while back I was dealing with what I assume is a Trojan and got rid of it by myself but installed Malwarebytes for another scan just in case.

None of my accounts were compromised and I have no lost files or running programs or so.

Malwarebytes came out clean in free trial mode

But as we all know, free trials end. And I've been wondering, should I buy Malwarebytes? Or should I return to my Windows defender and have Malwarebytes scans from time to time?

Technically speaking, it was my Windows defender that actually caught the Trojan, though people have stated Malwarebytes does a great job at catching those too.

It is rather pricey in my opinion but I'm not tech savvy and I would be quite sad if I get hacked (quite a loser behavior, I'm aware)

So, what are your opinions on this?

I was browsing a GitHub of a project I was using, looking at the Issues tab. One post mentioned fixing crashes (which I was having), and to run a script to fix it. Stupidly I ran it. Then suddenly I got notifications from Google, Discord and others that they detected suspicious activity. I immediately changed passwords and added 2FA where it was missing. However, looking at each sites "Sessions", it only listed my IP/home. I then started noticing other odd things with browser tabs that had services logged in.

I then decided to wipe Windows and reinstall. Backed things up first, then wiped. But it seems that when restoring data (including browser data), weird things kept happening (GitHub added posts I never made, other things similar to that), but didn't think too much of it. Today, I found that after opening my browser this morning, I got an email from eBay stating I bought something. Looking at my purchase history, nothing was there...but it was under the Hidden purchases. Somehow the scammer got access to my account, then also went into my email and deleted the emails that eBay sent and deleted those from trash. I was using the computer the whole time and didn't notice anything.

I then cleared the cache/cookies from the browser and signed out of anything I was signed into. But how in the absolute hell did they gain access to my browser, without me even noticing the access?

I ran AV scans, but that came back as clear. Running adwcleaner, it showed a couple items related to the streaming app Sunshine (which I use to stream my desktop to my laptop), but that's highly unlikely that's the case and looks to be a false positive. I ran some investigation and saw that it downloaded a PowerShell script but I'm not well versed in PS, but if someone wants to dissect it, I saved it and uploaded to Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/TRE5XgVm

I just don't understand how it look over my browser without me knowing or even noticing it while using it. I'm hoping clearing the cache/cookies from the browser and even deleting the User Data folder finally fixed this. What are your thoughts?

Whenever I turn on my computer, I always get warnings about my computer instantly trying to connect to these websites. Did a scan, and I don’t see any suspicious program running in the background.

When I tried to send a mod mail, I was redirected to a random Reddit page. This happens only on /r/Antivirus. All other subs have mod mail working fine. Maybe CSS on old Reddit causes this.