i need help

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You’re going to need to give more information than this zero context screenshot. Is this a virus scanner? If so, which? Why are you scanning? What caused this series of events? What’s the full content of this popup?

Absolute worse case scenario: whatever you’re doing will not irreparably damage your PC. If you break windows or whatever you can just wipe your pc and reinstall windows via a usb stick. However, it’s not clear what’s going on here.

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I was waiting for a comment like this. So uh , months before this happened my pc was not turning on well it di but it only showed a black screen , i called in a friend to help me fix it and he fixed it 👍

after a couple days alot of weird things popped up as saying " _ failed to start" the i dont suspect anything but it kept appearing over and over and when i play a game the game it crashed saying " _ Is uncompatible with wininit.exe / svchost please remove or stop it." well something like that so i became a little bit suspicious so i searched up about wininit and svchost . it turns out wininit is from system 32 so i decided not to do anything abt it.

Then i installed 360 total security because im cheap as hell and while i was just doing nothing a popup from 360 total security saying to stop wininit because of something so then i opened up 360 total security and scanned it and it turna out i have 526 issues in my pc because i had no antiviruses

i remove all of those except wininit because im afraid to break it because i have no idea how a pc works . and it didnt detect svchost as an issue though.

Thats all

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Norton is a virus.

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Anyone know what spoilsv.exe is?

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Install and run a reputable malware removal tool. I’d recommend hitman pro. It should be able to clean your PC. Norton is garbage.

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idek what norton is

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and also its my first time here on lemmy and i didnt know which one is description

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Full reinstall of the OS from your other comments your machine is fucked.

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I mean even if it’s not unfixable this is still pretty sound advice.

Get any important data you have off into a thumb drive, wipe the damn thing reinstall Windows get it up to at least Windows 10 do all your updates get windows defender running and updated. You don’t need third party antivirus or third-party malware defender is good enough these days. Even if you just bought Norton absolutely do not reinstall it it is not a good product.

I’m going to make some assumptions because you say that you’re cheap and you’ve got some virus worries that you might have some software from unreputable places. If that’s not the case just keep staying on the straight and narrow.

When you’re reinstalling your applications on this box don’t install things from sketchy locations don’t install cracked software that’s the number one source of nasty malware.

You can’t cheap out and have a box with sketchy software and buy your way out of it with North 360.

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don’t install cracked software that’s the number one source of nasty malware.

Search Freemediaheckyeah brother. Become free from the lie of untrustworthiness of cracked software. Follow the ship and be a fellow cremate. freedom becons.

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It’s not wrong. Windows is malware.

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oh sh*t that’s no escape i think

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