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Curious about differences in malware coming from the same download source.

Reddit r/cybersecurity·u/SecondarySlatFat·about 1 month ago
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Curious about differences in malware coming from the same download source. Hey there, and sorry if this is the wrong community/tag for the question! To make a short story shorter, I was recently infected by the RenPy game launcher malware that's been going around. After that went down, and I found out about it through my unsecured accounts, I went to the awesome folks over on the computerviruses sub to get help removing the malware from my device. I was told that what had infected my system was a RAT and that my best bet would be to perform a full reset and reinstall windows off of a separate device. Because of that, I decided that I'd take a shot at putting together a fixlist for myself since I was curious and wanted to learn more about what had actually happened to my computer. I'd also figured that if worst came to worst I'd be resetting it anyways.…

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