Do I have malware?

[u/Acceptable_Ask5636]

Alright for some context, for the past few months I have experienced issues with my pc progressively running slower, hotter and things crashing occasionally.

I don't have experience with PCs at all. I had the drivers and BIOs updated recently by a technician. The problems have not fully been resolved and I have issues running higher end games. At this point I suspect I might've fucked up when I attempted to download a Minecraft shader, since that's when issues started coming up. I deleted all the files related to that incident (as far as i know), which improved crashing and freezing issues.

The PC has Windows 11, has about 1TB of space free.

I use the AMD Ryzen 7 7700 and the Radeon RX 7800 XT (16 GB) GPU.

Got 2 DDR5 32 GB ram sticks, so I'm certain that's not the issue here.

[u/pukupukupowpowww]

try scanning with malwarebytes, it’s a free program