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Reformatting PC after virus - lingering issues?
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Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front doorRegistered User regular
So recently my desktop PC (Windows 10) was infected with a virus that prompted me to reformat my machine and try and start fresh. I was getting hitching when web browsing and a fake McAfee ad popup in the corner of Firefox when I was browsing.
I backed up all of my files onto a USB stick, and used another USB stick to create a boot USB with Windows 11 on it using Windows' Media Creation Tool. I formatted my drive in the drive selection back to a single 2TB partition, deleting all the old partitions, and installed Windows 11 to my C: drive.
I uninstalled OneDrive, ran Windows Update until I had downloaded everything, and downloaded Firefox. I haven't returned the backed-up files in case that USB was infected. I downloaded and ran UserBenchmark and everything was in spec and looked fine. Games ran fine.
When accessing a webpage from Firefox's home page there's a good 3-4 second hitch when accessing a webpage and it's driving me crazy. Is there anything I can do to troubleshoot this? I'm starting from a clean format, essentially the same as if I had unboxed parts for a new build, and I can't imagine a virus persisting, but here I am. Firefox is also generally running like shit e.g. it's failing to terminate the process after I X out and when I later try to re-launch Firefox I get the warning message that another instance is running.
I backed up all of my files onto a USB stick, and used another USB stick to create a boot USB with Windows 11 on it using Windows' Media Creation Tool. I formatted my drive in the drive selection back to a single 2TB partition, deleting all the old partitions, and installed Windows 11 to my C: drive.
I uninstalled OneDrive, ran Windows Update until I had downloaded everything, and downloaded Firefox. I haven't returned the backed-up files in case that USB was infected. I downloaded and ran UserBenchmark and everything was in spec and looked fine. Games ran fine.
When accessing a webpage from Firefox's home page there's a good 3-4 second hitch when accessing a webpage and it's driving me crazy. Is there anything I can do to troubleshoot this? I'm starting from a clean format, essentially the same as if I had unboxed parts for a new build, and I can't imagine a virus persisting, but here I am. Firefox is also generally running like shit e.g. it's failing to terminate the process after I X out and when I later try to re-launch Firefox I get the warning message that another instance is running.
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The other thing I can think of is that the BIOS is infected, but that's much, much less likely.
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