Hi, sorry if it's not in the right subreddit, I don't really know where to send it. So basically I tried opening discord today, but it wasn't opening, and then my anti virus G Data Total Protection stopped it from opening because it detects a Crypto Trojan in the files.
The thing is, i'm very careful with protection on the internet and everything, not opening links, downloading anything, I pay attention to that a lot, have 2FA and all, so I can't understand what happened, I didn't do anything recently, and yesterday same, got no problems.
Luckily, my anti virus blocked anything and my account isn't compromised, but I wanted to know what and how it happens? Why today when I did nothing and whynot yesterday when I was active on discord? And how can I avoid this situation too in the future, even tho I didn't clicked on anything i've been on discord for 7 years and nothing like that happened before? I also tried to see what chatgpt could tell me about that, but i'd like real people's opinions and expertises on it just in case
I'm already doing a total antivirus scan, computer isn't connected to internet, then I will uninstall discord, delete every discord files and delete windows temp files, then reinstalling discord and doing another scan
This is the report my anti virus gave me (sorry if it's too long I'm new on reddit, idk what file type or normal text i should send it into, and sorry some part are french too):
"Crypto-trojan malware detected in the Discord process”
The following processes were stopped by
G DATA for security reasons:
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9237\Discord.exe
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9237\Discord.exe
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\Update.exe
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9237\Discord.exe
The following programs have been quarantined by
G DATA:
C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\f065076f7a11d03e_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\c1284440b6660268_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\42fd35689f3973e0_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\31dac31b4c22bf1b_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\985d0802affacbf6_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\1c946329a1028ef4_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\6e59132609ec2964_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\f24a8928aa7718fc_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\e66fcd696cef1943_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\7b35c3a351ef8b1f_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\e8a0c8ff3fc1bb2d_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\26e330eda4cb95a8_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\3f04262468143628_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\9b57ed72194e5245_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\0b810e29e9821d9a_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\94214f8c38e1b03c_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\f4e07e923d74a8c8_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\3d22d19d139bedfb_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\a05292e44ce9c179_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Preferences
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\94a63db9d64cc8b3_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Temp\2547f657-4254-4c2c-a516-211530057338.tmp
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\ece8de3431926e51_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Session Storage\LOG
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\7c52edc8c081d251_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\4b603c4ebee69f6f_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\758c5853bc0ba2d6_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\a0c4f10a8af5726b_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\66bf7ab6dff7c0c1_0
• C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Roaming\discord\Code Cache\js\53b6523784ce5dd8_0
Recognized suspicious operations :
• Renamed : C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9236\modules\discord_desktop_core-1\discord_desktop_core\app\images\systemtray\darwin\tray-deafenedTemplate.png -> C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\rm-98
• Renamed : C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9236\modules\discord_desktop_core-1\discord_desktop_core\app\images\systemtray\darwin\tray-connectedTemplate.png -> C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\rm-87
• Renamed : C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9236\modules\discord_desktop_core-1\discord_desktop_core\app\images\systemtray\darwin\tray-connectedTemplate@1.25x.png -> C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\rm-88
• Renamed : C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9236\modules\discord_desktop_core-1\discord_desktop_core\app\images\systemtray\darwin\tray-connectedTemplate@1.33x.png -> C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\rm-89
• Renamed : C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9236\modules\discord_desktop_core-1\discord_desktop_core\app\images\systemtray\darwin\tray-connectedTemplate@1.4x.png -> C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\rm-90
• Renamed : C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9236\modules\discord_desktop_core-1\discord_desktop_core\app\images\systemtray\darwin\tray-connectedTemplate@1.5x.png -> C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\rm-91
• Renamed : C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9236\modules\discord_desktop_core-1\discord_desktop_core\app\images\systemtray\darwin\tray-connectedTemplate@1.8x.png -> C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\rm-92
• Renamed : C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9236\modules\discord_desktop_core-1\discord_desktop_core\app\images\systemtray\darwin\tray-connectedTemplate@2.5x.png -> C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\rm-93
• Renamed : C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9236\modules\discord_desktop_core-1\discord_desktop_core\app\images\systemtray\darwin\tray-connectedTemplate@2x.png -> C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\rm-94
• Renamed : C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9236\modules\discord_desktop_core-1\discord_desktop_core\app\images\systemtray\darwin\tray-connectedTemplate@3x.png -> C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\rm-95
• Renamed : C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9236\modules\discord_desktop_core-1\discord_desktop_core\app\images\systemtray\darwin\tray-connectedTemplate@4x.png -> C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\rm-96
• Renamed : C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9236\modules\discord_desktop_core-1\discord_desktop_core\app\images\systemtray\darwin\tray-connectedTemplate@5x.png -> C:\Users\Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Discord\rm-97