Hey there everyone, I'm terribly sorry to bother but I need some advice and a second opinion:
Avast detected the anarchy grabber software on my system, two instances of it, and was able to remove the files for me. Now, after doing some research I have discovered that there is a very high possibility that this was simply a false positive. unfortunately, I've already deleted the files and have no way to check them to confirm this as I have found out I could have done before I deleted them.
Still, to be safe, I'm backing up my files and I'm going to do a clean install of Windows. However, while I was doing a scan, and browsing Reddit, Avast blocked my connection to Reddit specifically, which raises some concerns that anarchy grabber may be able to infect Firefox as well?
I did some research but was unable to turn up any results regarding anarchy grabber and its ability to infect other software.
This was the threat blocked message I got twice in 10 minutes: "we've safely aborted connection on
www.reddit.com because it was infected with JS:AnarchyGrabber-A [Trj]."
In an abundance of caution, I closed Firefox and have not opened it up since, and also changed my password on Reddit through my phone (I also changed my Discord password through the mobile app).
I guess my question at the end of the day is, is there any chance that this virus, if it is indeed a virus and not a false positive, could have migrated to any of my other hard drives on my system? Or should I be safe to simply reinstall windows and continue on as usual?I'm obviously running more system scans with all the anti-malware software that I have, but I just want some second and third opinions on whether I'm taking all the precautions that I should be taking. Thank you very much for your time.