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As the title suggest, I may have installed some malicious software called Adventurous Clotth Tool from a company called Adventurous Cloth LLC.

For context, I was looking to download Driver San Francisco and because it's no longer available for purchase anywhere my brother recommended SteamUnlocked, which he has used before. After skimming the comments I assumed it was safe, downloaded the file(big warning sign in retrospect) and installed the program, after mentioning this to my brother he told me that it should have been the game files in a zip folder, and obviously I broke down in a cold sweat.

I have run multiple checks using Malware Bytes, Windows Defender and an offline Windows Defender scan, all of which reported no problems, however obviously I'm still scared/nervous about what I have done.

Apart from don't be an idiot, can anyone give me some advice on what I should be doing next? I tried searching for the company and program in question, but no results have come up.

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[–] TheL321@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recommend to format from an USB drive and use the sites in the megathread instad off steamunlocked

[–] Chrissedoff@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can you write a for dummies guide on how to do that, or point me to a guide? Googling only brings up guides on how to format a USB Stick.

[–] TerdilY@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

https://www.supereasy.com/how-to-use-windows-10-media-creation-tool/ Ignore the section "How to download the Windows 10 ISO file with the tool?" What is important is the beginning downloading it and the section "How to create a Windows 10 bootable USB drive with the tool?"

Hope this helps

[–] TerdilY@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

https://www.supereasy.com/how-to-use-windows-10-media-creation-tool/ Ignore the section "How to download the Windows 10 ISO file with the tool?" What is important is the beginning downloading it and the section "How to create a Windows 10 bootable USB drive with the tool?"

Hope this helps

[–] TerdilY@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

https://www.supereasy.com/how-to-use-windows-10-media-creation-tool/ Ignore the section "How to download the Windows 10 ISO file with the tool?" What is important is the beginning downloading it and the section "How to create a Windows 10 bootable USB drive with the tool?"

Hope this helps