Hi there.. I am at my wits end, trying to recover my system's functions.
- I deeply apologise for the wall of text, but I wanted to include as much info as I can before I forget anything.
1: Months ago, I downloaded some mods for my games and one download in particular did extra shady things. My chrome, task bar and system got "hijacked" and cyka-blyat-ified. Everything was in russian and there was this mail.ru and.. Komlet(can't remember the exact spelling) thing.
I downloaded malwarebytes and spybot to scan for threats and cleaned it up(or so I thought). Things seemed fine, with one exception. I noticed that when I tried to download normal files off the internet(actual, safe documents), my downloads would sometimes get "redirected" to download a rar within a rar that Windows defender would detect as.. Something software bundler Ogimant.b?
2: Today, when I downloaded the discord app. I noticed the download became one of those rar within a rar. The usual pop up asked if I want to give it permission to run, but I did not click yes. I alt tabbed to look up the developer signature thing, some LLC.. Tol-korg or something like that. Suddenly the whole mail.ru thing happened again and things started going downhill.
I did what I did last time, downloaded malwarebytes and it detected malware and I deleted them, restarted my computer and started removing the rest of the Russian crap settings done to my chrome manually. I noticed that one of my extensions stopped working and I tried redownloading it but none of my downloads would finish. I tried downloading different things like themes and mbar, they would "finish" download(for example 5mb/5mb) but would not actually finish. I could not reset my chrome either and when I tried to uninstall it, things got really nasty.
3: I can't remember the exact order of things I tried next, but I've been at it the whole day. None of my browsers or control panels will start up now, or if they do they will just be non responsive. I've tried a lot of different malware/virus removers, some of them find things to quarantine and I delete the quarantined items. I've previously "resettled" my hosts file. My rkill says there's nothing wrong either. I've tried system restore(through restarting into safe mode, since I can't access the control panel). I tried resetting my windows 10 but I only get some error message like "something is preventing your windows 10 reset". Currently the only browser I can access is steam big picture.
4: I have access to an external thumb drive, an Internet connection and my neighbour's laptop. That's how I've been installing different antiviruses to try to fix the problem today.
Please send help. Let me know if you have further questions or advice. My eternal gratitude.