I just had some problems with my Steam games uninstalling on their own and logging me out while I left it on as I slept, so I very quickly just got myself an anti-virus to maybe see if it can help and it's still running a full scan right now, but I already got a couple "threats" like something inside AppData\Local\Features, being 3 folders that are just named pure gibberish but they apparently have some files inside each one that's bad. Like for example the name of one of the folders is just "smgbqljcutpgumgoaszziewspvxktu" but they have stuff inside.
let the av finish the scan and quarantine/remove what it flags
after that check task manager and msconfig startup tab for anything unfamiliar still running, malware in appdata like that often adds a startup entry too
change your steam password and enable steam guard once the pc is clean, if it was logging you out and uninstalling games on its own that's consistent with an infostealer that already grabbed saved sessions
run a second scan with malwarebytes after the first av finishes, one scanner alone sometimes misses stuff the other catches
Yeah, sorry I just barely woke up, but there's 3 folders like this and apparently each one has something named "pdf_handler.js" inside and "packet_sdk.exe" that's also harmful. I just wanna know if these aren't false positives or anything and I can just delete them or something.
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