Windows 10 bootable usb infected?

pasi458

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I've been trying to clean my pc after a recent infection so i've tried Dbaning my HDDand clean installing windows... yet i keep getting a recurring virus which is taking up my disk % and slowing my pc down. So i'm wondering perhaps if the usb i install windows with is infected and if it is how did it manage to even get infected?
 
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A virus cannot survive a DBAN of that drive.
A virus cannot survive multiple deletions of all partitions (you did this, correct?)
This Chromium only appears after the install of AVG.
The Chrome browser is a default option in the AVG install.

Either you have corrupted install files from somewhere, or AVG is carrying some of that Chrome stuff with it.

pasi458

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hmm.. well whenever i tried running a antivirus scanner of somesort such as malwarebytes, my pc would get really slow and disk usage would get really high. Also when i looked into the program folder of malwarebytes; i found some newly created files called unins000.exe and unins000.dat
 

mdd1963

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of course disk usage will go up while the scan is being performed.....even a 'quick scan' can take a while with a large spinning drive...

In short, yhou can't gauge cpu usage during the scan, look for mysterious tasks/high cpu usage *after* the scan, and with browsers closed....

ANd make sure all WIndows updates are downloaded/applied, they can wreak havoc on usage as well....and for many, many hours depending on your connection speeds....
 

USAFRet

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Disk usage is high, because that's what your AV is doing...scanning the drive.

"unins000.dat" is a typical issue of a failed install.
See here for the exact same thing with Foxit Reader
https://help.foxitsoftware.com/kb/get-an-unins000-msg-unins000-dat-error-when-run-an-uninstalling.php
 

pasi458

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i forgot to mention that when i installed my normal avg anti virus, chromium would magically would appear in my registry and when i delete it, it would come back and lurk there.. Also when i try to end task "Avg antimalware service", windows pops up saying access denied.
 

USAFRet

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In the install of AVG, did you just accept the defaults? Click next, next, next?
Or did you read what it was doing?
Is chromium a default included thing?

Applications can't just magically appear.
 

pasi458

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Nope, I did a custom install and chromium doesn't come as a default package.. its an opensourced program which can get laced with viruses so im really confused as to how it manages to come back
 

USAFRet

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As said...it can't just magically appear.
Something installed it.
 

pasi458

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one last thing im wondering about and this totally went over my mind... but i made the dban usb on my infected pc and have been using to clear my disk so is that more likely cause for why malware keeps coming back?
 

USAFRet

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Almost certainly not.
 

pasi458

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Finished up making a new bootable usb and installed windows again.. Installation and setup went fine so i got my network setup and installed avg and then disk usage spiked to 100%, pc got unusally slow, and the same suspicious chromium appeared again in my registry.. idk if i should just give up
 

USAFRet

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This has to be the result of something else you're installing.