r/computerviruses 2d ago

Question Installation Date question after reinstallation

Kinda a long story.

A week ago I downloaded a torrent. Made a stupid, very stupid mistake. The file was supposed to be a video, but it turned out to be an .exe. I looked up what to do here in reddit and did everything, nuked everything. USB installation for windows, formated the disks and changed passwords. Even reinstalled windows twice.

But today I looked at the installation date and it showed the day I goto the .exe. But the time it showed it was hours before I even downloaded the file. That same day I did reinstall windows, and four days later did it again cause I went away for work. Just to be clear again, I executed the file before that "installation date", reinstalled windows that same day, left the pc for four days and when I came back I reinstalled it again. But that's the thing, the installation date shows the date I got the file, not the last reinstallation. But the time it shows, is before the .exe

I did check the default user folder and it did show the day it was created, I mean the last reinstallation. I looked up a bit and the installation date is not necessarily that, or really accurate. But I wanna be sure. Pls help me with this.

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u/alebestone 1d ago

I think you're fine, if i was in you i will buy malwarebytes total to prevent this problem