[strike]Sorry long title.[/strike]
Story
Recently I found a password stealer while doing a PC cleaning. It was the strangest kind of malware as it was stuck to an file that would never be executed at all. So my system technically had a malware but it wasn´t doing anything. Not that it mattered much since I haven´t used this pc for months since I download said file. Since then however I have had this feeling of paranoia of my system actually being infected and I just don´t notice. I ran a malware scan almost twice daily for a week and even now it says that nothing was found. Is it completely safe?
Info
I use malware bytes as my anti-malware. I run a threat scan and a custom check all computer scan whenever I can and nothing as been detected for a month.
The file in question came with a torrent file. I´ll leave the details out, just now it was a file that would´ve never been executed.
Story
Recently I found a password stealer while doing a PC cleaning. It was the strangest kind of malware as it was stuck to an file that would never be executed at all. So my system technically had a malware but it wasn´t doing anything. Not that it mattered much since I haven´t used this pc for months since I download said file. Since then however I have had this feeling of paranoia of my system actually being infected and I just don´t notice. I ran a malware scan almost twice daily for a week and even now it says that nothing was found. Is it completely safe?
Info
I use malware bytes as my anti-malware. I run a threat scan and a custom check all computer scan whenever I can and nothing as been detected for a month.
The file in question came with a torrent file. I´ll leave the details out, just now it was a file that would´ve never been executed.