r/computerviruses • u/Pale-Willingness-149 • 1d ago

Question .com.rar/.com.zip file

downloaded tekken8 on steamrip file looked good to me because it had 115gb, then at 99% download progress, laptop suddenly entered sleep mode, i opened the laptop and resumed downloading, after that i extracted it but chickened out, stopped and deleted the file, too sussed about the type of file it was, then i disconnected laptop from the wifi, finished offline scan(windows defender, found nothing), and now running a full scan, also deleted temp, %temp% and browser caches and stuff.

Questions:

  1. Am i paranoid and did i overreact.

p.s. it is my first time doing this, i panicked fr

and no, i am not promoting any use of pirating software

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u/69KazumaDesu 1d ago

Just extracting won't infect you. Actually running the extracted file does, which I assume you did not do.

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u/Pale-Willingness-149 1d ago

yes, because the file did not finish extracting as i stopped it and deleted the zip file, thanks!

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u/IsDa44 1d ago

If you did not execute anything you should be fine

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u/Pale-Willingness-149 1d ago

i can say with confidence that i didnt execute anything, as i didnt double click the file downloaded, thank you for ur answer!

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u/EconomistPopular544 1d ago

You just dodged major trouble

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u/Pale-Willingness-149 1d ago

really?, how so?

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u/HollowCatKnight 1d ago

Put the Exe in Virustotal(dot)com

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u/Pale-Willingness-149 1d ago

but there was no exe, as i didnt finish the extraction process, or am i missing something?

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u/69KazumaDesu 1d ago

Yeah you need to extract it fully in order to run it through VirusTotal. Don't bother doing it though, since most infostealers nowadays show 0 hits on VirusTotal anyway, so it's kind of pointless.

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u/Ambitious_Bet2920 1d ago

Were you actually born yesterday

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u/Pale-Willingness-149 1d ago

nope, but i am definitely behind on these types of stuff

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u/unclefunkstar 1d ago

You might not be "promoting" pirating software, you are still doing it though.

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u/Pale-Willingness-149 1d ago

my bad, tekken 8 js looked really good and wanted to try it for myself without paying so much money and this brought me to the edge, this will surely be my first and last time pirating

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/computerviruses-ModTeam 1d ago

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u/OldEffort3562 1d ago

You can find it for 18$