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System Name | My system is my pet? |
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Processor | Intel Core i5 9400f 2.9GHz/4.0 Turbo (NoOC) |
Motherboard | Gigabyte Z370M D3H rev. 1.0 |
Cooling | An okayish Cooler but it is better than Intel's stock |
Memory | Corsair Red Line 8x2 16GB 3000MHz (NoOC) DDR4-3000 15-17-17-35 (CMK16GX4M2B3000C15R) V1.35 ver 4.24 |
Video Card(s) | NVIDIA GeForce MSI 980 Ti Golden Edition (NoOC)| Spare: GTX 650 Ti 1 GB |
Storage | Samsun 860 EVO 1 TB | Spare: WDC Black 930 GiB WD1003FZEX |
Display(s) | Asus VG248QZ 1920x1080 144hz 24" (Current: 60hz, because Contrast is lowered with 60+ Hz) |
Case | Corsair Air 540 |
Audio Device(s) | Realtek ALC892 |
Power Supply | Corsair 850W RMi power supply (Overkill I know -long story-) |
Mouse | Logitech M187 wireless (First day of use 30-9-2021) |
Keyboard | Logitech K270 wireless |
Software | Windows 10 21H2 / Nobara Linux (Modified Fedora Linux) |
CCleaner site got hacked and then put malware into their app, even though it is owned by Avast!, the popular freeware anti-virus (and yes, at that time it was owned by avast not by Piriform). Not only that, hackers tried to do that again in 2019!Except for the fact that known safe sites occasionally end up with drive-by infections.
Anyway, I hope this solution works for you.

From wikipedia:
((After Piriform was acquired by Avast, in September 2017, CCleaner 5.33 was compromised by the incorporation into the distributed program of the Floxif trojan horse that could install a backdoor, enabling remote access to 2.27 million[33] infected machines.[34][35] Forty of the infected machines received a second-stage payload that appears to have targeted technology companies Samsung, Sony, Asus, Intel, VMWare, O2, Singtel, Gauselmann, Dyn, Chunghwa and Fujitsu.[36][37] On 13 September, Piriform released CCleaner 5.34 and CCleaner Cloud 1.07.3191, without the malicious code.[38]
On October 21, 2019, Avast disclosed a second security breach during which hackers tried again to insert malware inside CCleaner releases. This attempt was unsuccessful.[39]))
reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCleaner#Malware_infection
(Just to say it is a legit news. I was there at that time when the first hack happend and it made the web panic about it)
EDIT: You can use Malwarebytes free edition, it has manual scan. Once you close it, nothing runs out of it. https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/thankyou/
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