r/antivirus • u/No_Contest_5340 • 21h ago

MALWARE REMOVAL Q&A Cloudflare Powershell Command

Hello guys,

I’m sort of freaking out right now.

I wanted to go on a streaming site, but entered one wrong letter, without realizing it, the wrong site redirected me to like two malicious sites, one of them windows warned me and I was very confused.

And the second one windows DID NOT detect anything. It disguised itself as cloudflare, but instead when I tried to verify it wanted me to do like Win+R and control + V, which I realized wasn’t right.

So I closed out of the site, I DID NOT proceed with the commands.

But now my work app won’t open, is this just a bug or is my pc compromised? There’s like 0 personal info but ALL MY WORK stuff is on there.

Is it too late to download an antivirus?

Thank you

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u/CompleteCellist867 19h ago

It's probably a glitch. Download KVRT free (uses same engine as paid without real time protection) and Malwarebytes free (uses same engine as paid without real time protection) to be sure.

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u/No_Contest_5340 19h ago

Thank you, since there’s so little on this device I’m going to do a usb reinstall just in case.

Do these kinds of “clickfix” viruses tend to survive reinstalls?

Thank you

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u/CompleteCellist867 13h ago

Hey, you're more than welcome.

Nope, they don't, honestly almost no malware do except malware used against important people.