I don't know if this is the right subreddit, so my apologies and delete this post if its not appropriate.
about an hour ago my PC randomly restarted, no warning. I got scared and noticed that my avira antivirus was turned off and not signed in for some reason. I immediately turned it back on and did a full scan with it, no threats. I then did a Malwarebytes pro scan, no threats. and now im doing a Windows Defender full scan. so far no threats (but apparently it has 4 hours left to go.
I then checked online how to see if anything was doing stuff on my PC without knowing (probably not the smartest thing) and a website recommended going going start > run > recent > group by date modified and upon doing that I found 4 things recently modified 2 files callled threat// and a .Ink shortcut file for 'The internet'. after the avira scan was completed I checked back in the recent window to find that the threat// files changed to windowsdefender--- files and the internet shortcut was still there. I panicked and deleted all 3 of them.
I don't understand if any of this is bad or not considering no threats were detected yet, but that recent folder also seems not be on my C drive or D drive so maybe the antivirus or antimalware cant access whatever void its in? am I overreacting?
I should also point out before the restart I had just finished downloading some torrents, im not sure if my antivirus was off the whole time because I only noticed after the restart.
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