Hey, new here, so im sorry if Im not clear about what happened. So today I downloaded a file form a sketchy website and I noticed that my pc suddenly started to struggle, it kept freezing and unfreezing over and over, command prompt would get randomly opened and then almost immediately closed out of nowhere. I decided to run a full malwerebytes scan, and it said that it detected over 400 infected files. I quarantined them all, but I noticed that the file that I download by accident that caused all of this in the first place (I think it was called scrnsnap) still remained untuchead, so I decided to take my chance and just delete it the easy way. After I've done that, I noticed that my pc started going crazy, I couldn't open anything no apps, no photos, no files, just my browser. I've decided to do a factory reset as fast as I could to limitate the damage, but I noticed that I couldn't even go to windows settings to run a factory reset (in the end I managed to do it from the log in screen). So, everything went fine, pc was running like new, everything worked perfectly, I ran full malwarebytes scan again, detected nothing. I got all of my personal files back, installed a few necessary apps. But then, I noticed some weird .txt files ''read me'' that were scattered across my C and D disks. All of them said this:
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[email protected]So, the question: Are those just leftovers of the virus, that was running before the reset? I can acces all of my files without problem and I've read that this is a ransomware, so in theory, most if not all of my files should be decrypted and I shouldn't be able to access them. I've ran scans on multiple AVs, they detect nothing. So, am I fine? I was sure I got rid of this thing, but now im not sure. Thanks.