Got a Trojan and it messed with my Secondary Drive
[sorry for the long winded story]
Ok so this is the first Trojan I’ve gotten since middle school. Recently I was looking into downloading some old mods and old games that are no longer sold anywhere. I think I got it from there, not sure though. Either way, I got a Trojan.
I first noticed when I was playing undercharged 4 and in a cutscene that characters started behaving weirdly and the sound went out. At first thought it was an issue with the game, restarted it multiple times didn’t work. Then I decided to verify files. Immediately ran into a failure. Thought it was steam restarted it and that didn’t solve the issue.
So finally I decided to restart the computer, relaunched steam and Boom none of my games were downloaded. Now to mention this was on my secondary Drive. I have 1 main drive that is 500gb and a second that’s 1tb. So thinking the issue was that somehow make computer became desynced from steam somehow I tried to redownload Uncharted to get it to recognize the game. That didn’t work and instead it told me there wasn’t enough storage.
Thought it was weird and restarted the computer again. This time my secondary drive was completely gone and it wasn’t recognizing it. Recently I had a 2tb ssd also go bad so I was thinking my motherboard may be going bad. But on a Hunch I just ran a virus scan while looking for solutions. It found a Trojan low and behold.
After removing the Trojan with Defender I decided to be safe and reset the PC. Mind you the secondary drive still wasn’t working. I reset it and the drive still didn’t show up. Ran defender again and nothing computer was clean.
Decided I was going to see if I could eat the second drive to work and first cleared the CMOS. Which worked no problem. Now I have the drive back and everything seems fine. However nothing was removed from it. Everything pre reset is still there. I ran defender multiple times both offline and full scan. Both show nothing. My question is simple, should I Reset again? I really don’t want too.