TorrentEasy accidentally installed, startup itself as stand-alone torrent client

Viruses and worms
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Greetings everyone,

I was dumb when I didn’t see what I was about to download at kickasstorrent website. I found a torrent I wanted to download, accidentally clicked “Easy Download” instead of downloading the torrent file. It downloaded as “Torrenteasy-filename of the torrent I wanted to download.exe” and then I thought it was a torrent file, so I opened it, to my shock instead of my torrent program to pop up, it install itself and pop up as stand-alone torrent client and started to downloading the file. The next thing I do was quickly closed it to prevent any possible damage to my computer. I thought my computer is safe until the next restart, it startup itself to continue downloading. I closed it again and find the torrent easy file and delete it. Then I go to msconfig, in the startup tab there’s this program listed to open itself during startup, I uncheck it, restart, it didn’t show up anymore and I browse again thru msconfig, and it’s still there but unchecked.

To me, something that startup itself without me having an option is rootkit/malware. :frowning: I know it’s my fault in the first place. How do I check if it done anymore harm to my computer? Help please :frowning:

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have you done a quick scan with avast?

also check your comp for malware with this

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.50.1 http://filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/
always update so you have latest database before you run quick scan
click on the remove selected button to quarantine anything found

post the scan log here

3

just finished and done scanned with both antivirus and also malwarebytes with latest definitions. it found nothing. does that means i’m safe? :slight_smile:

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I doubt if it’s malware. It’s probably just their own bittorrent client. World of Warcraft gets it’s updates through Bittorrent as well using a built in client.