I appear to have a malware infection on my computer, but neither my antivirus (Avast) not Malwarebytes will detect it.
My internet connection is 350MBPS fibre, but feels nothing like it.
Additionally, and somewhat alarmingly, if I leave my PC idle for a short (but seemingly non-fixed/random) amount of time, a web page - english-trainer.net - opens of its own accord.
I had this behaviour appear several months ago when using Firefox and a bit of google fu suggested that it may be an infected Firefox extension, so after unsuccessfully trying to find the culprit I switched to Chrome, and it stopped for a while - until I had to open Firefox again to access some info I had stored in there that I'd forgotten then it started again in chrome (I'm aware that I may be seeing a coincidence as a correlation here)..
I had previously thought that this only happened when my browser was already open, but today, for the first time, it actually opened the browser itself.
I'm seeing odd things in my event logs referring to Advapi, and googling that shows that it may be Malware.
Detailed Authentication Information:
Logon Process: Advapi
Authentication Package: Negotiate
Transited Services: -
Package Name (NTLM only): -
Key Length: 0
I also noticed that on attempting to download FARBARI was denied access to my Downloads folder.and forced to use either my user folder or the desktop. Additionally, FARBAR could not update.
Can someone help me please?
Scan result of Farbar Recovery Scan Tool (FRST) (x64) Version: 19-05-2021 (ATTENTION: ====> FRST version is 718 days old and could be outdated)
Scan results snipped
Edited by Maffu, 12 May 2023 - 01:59 AM.