Downloaded a malicious GitHub repo, got hacked within minutes, and now my Microsoft account is gone. What should I do?

I made a huge mistake today. While downloading something from GitHub, I accidentally downloaded and opened a malicious repo.

In literally five minutes since I run it, I started receiving account recovery and password reset emails for various accounts I own. After a second of thinking what happened, I quickly installed Malwarebytes to scan my PC.

It detected a couple of threats on my computer: Trojan.Crypt.MSIL, Malware.AI and something concerning Microsoft Defender exclusions.

Without wasting a second, I started changing my passwords via my phone, such as Google account, Discord, Steam, Epic Games, TikTok, almost every account I could

Unfortunately, in trying to recover my Microsoft account, it says that the account doesn’t exist anymore. I am afraid that some person has managed to gain unauthorized access to the account and change the email.

My main worry right now is whether the malware still operates in the background, stealing any data, and still lurking in the background

As for my computer, I have three drives (C:, D:, and E:) where there is about 300 GB of private recordings and clips with my friends which I definitely would like to keep. Most of them are stored on D: drive, although some are also saved on C: drive.

I’m considering doing a completely fresh Windows installation, but I’m worried the malware could have spread to my other drives.
My questions are:
1. Is a clean Windows installation enough to get rid of the malware?
2. Can I safely keep my D: and E: drives without wiping them?
3. Is there any way to tell what information the malware stole?
4. Is it possible that someone still has access to my accounts even after changing my passwords?
5. Is there anything I can do to recover my Microsoft account if the original email is no longer recognized?
My PC is currently being treated as compromised, and I’ve been securing my accounts from my phone.
Any advice would be appreciated. I’m honestly pretty stressed about the whole situation.
Also like what do I do?
I’m currently running Malwarebytes deep scan

So, I busted out a portable SSD I haven't used in a while to move over some big files. A PNY Pro Elite to be specific, and when I plug it in, I find out that it's missing half its space. I know it's a 1 TB drive but it only has about 465 GB. Thought it was a partition issue, so I naturally went to disk management. Problem was that there supposedly isn't any unallocated space. Tried reformatting it, deleting the current volumes, went to cmd and tried extending it via diskpart, tried chkdsk, sdc, and even defrag. Still nothing. Does anyone have any advice?

My Dell g5 15 5500 gaming laptop is 5yrs old and Ive never had screen issues or ever abused it, but a year ago+ I would take my laptop apart like twice a year each year but never had issues since. My screen constantly has a gray bar thats moving and glitching when I open chrome and when I close it, it stays and gets worse. Any suggestions to fix this? Ive updated my drivers and tried resetting my integrated gpu and main gpu.

My CD with MRI images says PACSgear by Hyland. It's from Sutter Health in the SF Bay Area.

I've tried opening on Mac and Windows using an external DVD drive and both systems say its a blank. My external DVD drive works because I can watch DVDs on my computer.

I tried going back to Sutter and they made me a new one, same problem. Sutter verifies they can read it.

I tried downloading software to view it such as MicroDicom and it doesn't see anything on the CD.

I'm out of options. Anyone else have ideas?

Hey everyone, hoping to get some advice or solutions for my Xiaomi Pad 5.

- My tablet originally froze/stuck on the Xiaomi logo during a normal power-on.
- After turning it off and turning it back on, it booted straight into Fastboot mode.
- Every time I try forcing a reboot (holding the Power button for 10–15 seconds), it briefly displays the Xiaomi logo and then immediately kicks back into the Fastboot screen.
- When I try holding Power + Volume Up to access Recovery/Main Menu, it bypasses Recovery completely and goes right back to Fastboot.

Hey guys just looking for some advice from anyone, there was construction done in my house without my awareness and unfortunately my entire pc room was covered in a thin layer of this dust including a fin layer visible inside my pc. I’m talking a visible layer on the backplate, inside my pc fans, on top of my cooler etc. I would just appreciate some advice on what to do and how dangerous this is, I tried air dusting but it won’t even budge and it’s my first high end pc so I’m not used to cleaning them. I did have dust filters on the outside of the case (Corsair air 5400) which caught a lot of dust but unfortunately some got through. My pc is a 5090FE 9950x3d as well. Any advice from anyone is appreciated.

In regards to my room being covered in dust, I have already deep cleaned it with an appropriate vacuum cleaner, carpet cleaner, and air purifier. My only concern now is my technology as unfortunately I had a lot of expensive equipment in there.

a few days ago, i bought a refurbished iPhone 17 from Amazon's official Renewed Store (i can attach a link to the exact product listing if needed) and while it seems to be working perfectly for the most part i've noticed it gets hot very quickly if i start playing a game on my phone, which is part of why i wanted to upgrade from my old phone (13 mini). is that just an inevitability with iPhones or did i get somehow ripped off and should i return it? i hope this is on topic for this sub.

I have a podcast with my logo that I often post onto my facebook page. It's a jazz podcast called "Discovering Jazz". No problems (usually) getting the podcast with the logo and the written description of the particular episode onto my own facebook page. But when I try to post it onto certain jazz oriented groups that I subscribe to, I can post the link....but while the description shows up when I first post it, when I check back the description is gone. And so is the logo (it gets replaced with the logo of either my podcast host, or apple music or podcast addict (depending on where I access the podcast). Is there a way that I can post it directly onto these other facebook groups (even if many of them are subject to the approval of the moderators) with both the logo and the episode description?

My Acer ED320QR monitor suddenly started displaying what looks like inverted colors or very bright white overlay. I get the same result from a Switch, a MacBook, different HDMI cables and with no input at all. I did “reset all settings” twice and no luck. I noticed that for a split second, when I reset the first time, the screen showed as normal but went right back to this state. Can this be fixed?

when I set my monitor's refresh rate to 300hz, my fps is capped at 150 in multiple games, and when I set it to 240hz, it is now reaching 240fps, my in game fps is capped at 240, my monitor's vsync is disabled, I'm on a mac mini m2 2023, how do I fix this?

Hi everyone,

Earlier today we were the target of an automated Layer 7 DDoS attack against our production Cloud Run service. The attack was carried out using a Python script (Python/3.13 aiohttp/3.14.5) which was making around 50 requests per second to POST /api/login, attempting to consume container concurrency.

The traffic came through Google's own proxy infrastructure, potentially Apps Script or Colab, rotating across 200+ IPs resolving to google-proxy-*.google.com (e.g., 66.102.8.132, 66.102.8.161, 74.125.210.103).

The problem is that Google's official abuse reporting form (https://support.google.com/code/contact/cloud_platform_report) immediately closes the report with:

We're unable to do anything with this report as the IP address referenced in it isn't hosted on Google Cloud.

It appears the automated system only recognizes customer Compute Engine IP ranges, not Google's own proxy egress IPs (AS15169). As a result, the report gets rejected before anyone can review the Cloud Logging evidence, including timestamps and Cloud Trace IDs.

We've already hardened the backend with distributed Firestore rate limits, concurrency controls and request timeouts so the attack traffic is now being dropped. We've also responded to the closed ticket with the trace IDs, asking for escalation to the relevant Trust & Safety team.

I have three questions:

1. Is there a specific abuse reporting email or intake point for traffic coming in via Google's own proxy infrastructure which would effectively bypass the automated IP validation?
2. Has anyone with Basic Support actually escalated a similar proxy based DDoS to a human at Google?
3. Would Google Bug Hunters be the right place to report this as a potential proxy abuse/SSRF vector or is there a more appropriate channel to get to the relevant security engineers?

Any suggestions on how to get this routed to the appropriate team would be great. Thanks!

Hello im hoping someone can help me as im lost and don’t much about troubleshooting. I was gaming on my pc when it suddenly turned off and wouldn’t turn on again. I started off by plugging it into another outlet and got nothing. After a lot of googling I was able to test my PSU using the paperclip method and the power button by bridging the 2 pins in my JFP1 connector. The PSU paperclip test turned on my fans and light, but when i went to bridge the pins in the JFP1 connector with a screwdriver the pc didn’t turn on but I think i heard a click or something similar to one.

Im lost as to what my next steps should be, I was thinking my GPU or MOBO got cooked. Can anyone help me out, and thanks in advance!

Specs-

Case- iBUYPOWER InWin 305 Tempered Glass RGB Gaming Case

Processor Intel® Core™ i9-10900KF

Video Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 - 10GB

Motherboard MSI Z490-A PRO - WiFi, ARGB Header (2), USB 3.2 Ports (1 Type-C, 3 Type-A), M.2 Slot (2)

Power Supply 800 Watt - High Power - 80 PLUS Gold

Hi everyone,

As the title says, I have recently noticed that when I run a game in the background, YouTube and Netflix videos get quite laggy.

Before this, everything worked normally. I have already checked my system utilization while gaming, and the GPU load is only around 60% because the game is not very demanding.

My specs are:

• CPU: Intel Core i3-12100
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
• RAM: 32GB

I would much appreciate any help or advice. Thank you!

Im on windows 11, basically theres a quality update that bricks my pc, the taskbar is no longer working, windows key does nothing, startup apps dont start, i tried restarting explorer i tried everything and it still doesnt work, so i just started uninstalling the update since it bricks my pc. I turned off automatic windows update but now it gives me no option to shut down except by udpating, i just did and it still updates to the quality update that bricks it, any thoughts on how to fix it because its getting really annoying.
Specs;
I7-10700k
16gb ddr4 ram
Rx 9060 xt 16gb
1tb nvme ssd

Hello I have a text thread I deleted and I want it back. I’ve restored the messages but it only restored that last 1000 or so and I wanted all of them back and it’s about a years worth of messages. The other number was from an android so I can’t access them on my Mac. Is there a way to get the messages back from an iCloud backup or something?

They’re all from different numbers so I can’t just block it. I usually reply stop and block the number, but they’re always more. They’re all directed towards the person who had my number last.
What can I do to stop them?

Hey guys.

I opened up my router's Wireless panel today and saw a MAC address, with an impossibly high SNR (-18/-89dBm) and no IP address connected to it, actively transferring and recieving packets. I have no devices that close to the router, especially not Samsung ones, and it's succesfully authenticated too so it's not like it's just trying to connect... I kicked it out and it came right back, the only solution was blocking the MAC.

The MAC starts with BC:8C:CD and it belongs to Samsung ELECTRO-MECHANICS (Thailand).

It's on my (passworded btw) guest VLAN/SSID so it's not my phone or computer or anything like that, the only Samsung thing ever connected to that is an UNPLUGGED TV.

Has anyone else seen this? I've found similar posts but with no answer.

I’m planning on ordering a Motorola on Amazon that says “Made for US” but also plan to use as an Unlocked Travel phone. Can it still work with local SIM cards in other countries even if it says “Made for US”?

My laptop is a MacBook Air. The chip is Apple M1 and my mcOS is Tahoe 26.1 if that's any help. I don't know what else to include here but please tell my if I need to put something else

Basically one day I work up and chrome wouldn't open any websites that weren't already open. I tried to open Discord or Gmail or Tumblr but it showed an error message 'This site can't be reached: The webpage at [xyz] might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.'

Youtube still works fine. I've moved to duckduckgo for the time being and everything works fine on there.

The other thing is that I tried to open the Discord app on my laptop but it just showed 'update failed - retying in [xyz] sec..' and then loaded forever. Anki (another application) just showed an error message like the one I got on chrome.

System specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5800x

Motherboard: ASUS Prime Plus B550 Wifi

GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ 7900xtx

RAM: 4x16gb 3600mhz CL18 TeamGroup Xtreem ARGB

PSU: Corsair SF750

Cooler: LianLi Gallahad 240

Case: LianLi o11 mini

Accessories: No Name Brand White PSU Extension Cables from Amazon seller Coolmirico

This build previously had a Gigabyte Vision B550 motherboard which started periodically restarting with high intensity GPU usage in gaming. The issues worsened until I couldn't even get to my desktop before a crash and culminating with a bitlocker loop. After a long diagnosis, first believing it was the PSU, then the GPU, I realized file transfers between my SSD's were also crashing the PC. I figured it was a PCIe issue and after a BIOS flash didn't fix it, I concluded the chipset was dead.

With this ASUS board now, I've got exactly the same issue. The same start, the same progression. One time is a defect, twice is a consistent pattern. I fear either the thermals in my case are abysmal and are cooking the chipset as my GPU is basically smothering it, or that my PSU or the extension cables are feeding dirty power into the motherboard. I've got my third motherboard coming in now and want to make sure this doesn't happen again.

What might be killing my motherboards?

I have a issue that my pc randomly freezes or mostly it turns off like I'd cut power off, sometimes 2-3 times a day, somedays 0, everyday I'm playing counter strike and deadlock, Most of the time crash happens when I'm connecting or ending match idk if is it related with anything or random. I have tried lowering my wattage to 140W on cpu that is i7 14700KF and GPU RX 7800 XT -10% wattage. PSU is 750W be quiet 12M. I have tried many thing and nothing working so far.

So I have the same google account for two devices. I recently downloaded google drive as an app on my laptop and every file was transferred there. That way, my phone's storage also fulled because they share the shame account. If I delete the files from my phone will they get deleted from the laptop (I moved the files from my drive to OS (c:) even though I don't know if it matters, probably not)? Any way I can remove the files from the phone's drive while keeping them on my laptop. I would really appreciate some help.

So im playing guitar and im trying to get the backing track to connect to my usb bluetooth speakers, for some reason I dont hear the audio but upstairs has a really loud bluetooth speaker and I can hear the bass of my backing track from their house? genuinely wtf is going on does anybody know. its happened multiple times and stopped, are they purposely connecting to my computer? when i turn bluetooth off on my computer it stops happening, but when its on it sometimes just connects to the upstairs neighbor speaker

I've been having issues with slow Steam downloads and updates, where the download speed drops to 0 MB/s and the disk usage can spike. Initially, I thought the problem was caused by downloading and installing games on my HDD (D: drive), so I moved my games to my SSD (C: drive), which seemed to fix the issue and allowed downloads to run properly again. However, the problem has recently returned while updating a game, Cyberpunk 2077, despite it being on the SSD. I've tried several troubleshooting steps, including updating drivers through Device Manager, checking and updating the storage controllers, and disabling Windows Search, SysMain and Shared PC Account Manager. I've also restarted the PC and tried other basic Steam troubleshooting steps, such as clearing the download cache and checking the download region and speed limits. I'm still experiencing slow or stalled downloads and would like help identifying the underlying cause, as I initially thought moving everything to the SSD had resolved it.

Hi everyone,

I'm having a really annoying issue with my main SSD getting super full since I only have 10 GB left. I don't even have games on this drive because I moved all of them to my second SSD.

On my primary drive I just have Windows a few basic apps and NVIDIA. The problem is that NVIDIA and DXCache are taking up a massive 45.3 GB on my 150 GB SSD.

Does anyone know how I can safely clean this up? Every time I update my drivers I lose even more space.

Thanks a lot for any help!

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