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Possible virus/ Malware

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Greyson4450

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Hello,

So the other day I wanted the game beamg but it was $30 on the steam store, and i couldn't be bothered buying it so I did a really smart thing and downloaded a torrent of the internet, I downloaded the game fine and it worked fine until I got a screen come up on my computer (picture below). My computer restarted and i noticed in the task manager that svchost.exe was using like 70 percent of my cpu and i was also getting ads comming up on google and stuff. I ran an antivirus software and it got rid of the ads and svchost.exe but that screen keeps coming up on my PC, it does not look like a genine windows message but a virus of some sort, I have ran AVAST, AVG and Malware bites and my PC is "all clean". Please Help thanks

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https://imgur.com/a/sblNH26
 
Anything more than 5 minutes with an AV solution means a full wipe and reinstall.

So...your AV efforts have not worked.
Wipe and reinstall.
 
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