Not even gonna try to justify it, I fucked up high time. That poor piece of technology has more viruses than an experimental lab right now, its totally fucked.
Can’t type shit, can’t run the antivirus, can’t delete the offending file, can’t end the task, fuck I can’t even navigate trhough files- honest to God, that PC does not belong to me right now. But I want it back from whatever piece of hell I shoved it into…
I know enough to be able to run a pen drive windows reinstall, but how do I wipe the PC if control has completely been taken from me?
Local I.T shop guy here.
Take it to a local IT shop if you want your data back and they can nuke it for you, probably without a Windows reinstall.
If you wanna try something yourself, usually when you loose control of a PC when it comes on that means the attacker has remote access to the PC and just reconnected each time you turn it on.
Unplug the ethernet cable or unplug your WiFi device to kill network then you can go into Apps and remove any remote support software. (Connectwise, Anydesk, Teamview, Bomgar, etc)
Once you do that open a run prompt with Windows Key + R and type %appdata% and press enter this will take you into the hidden user appdata folder. From here travel up one folder level and go into the “local” folder. Look for any folders named similar to the remote support app you removed (or just named after any remote access app) and delete the whole folder.
Then go into the “temp” folder nuke it as well. You may not be able to delete quiet everything and thats okay.
Good luck and may Gate’s smile upon you.