Malware first in Advertising, then as induced crashes

[JIYONTEKUZA]

I am trying to play Skyrim SE on my CyberPower 880, but all I do is fight with it. A few days ago I had my perfect load order, and when I signed out, up popped an advertisement for a cute anime game, free to play. I recognized it as a cover for malware, so I was careful that my cursor did not come in contact with any part of it. Yet I still received an unsolicited download of "Image.something" , and I hit cancel.

Immediately, the "Sofia" mod got a LOOT warning that something had to be done to match her to SkyUI, which I will never use. I will play Skyrim forever on Xbox360 before I will ever have SkyUI forced on me. Ambriel got "deleted Navmesh." These had not been there a minute before. My Back-Up DVD was destroyed by overfilling it. The game stayed frozen.

So I reset the 880, and have now a horrendous W10 update which is even worse than usual.

This Skyrim SE Mods Nexus targeted malware is now downright malicious. I hooked the 880 to the internet to re-install LOOT, and I got a crash with a blurry notice in the lower left corner that said oops something went wrong. No, this is the malware again, as Ambriel and Sofia are both bad again after the LOOT install crash, and all 3 of my DVD drives are haywire.

Again, everything is perfect right up until one of these weird internet occurrences happens.I have a lot of free time on my hands since I can't play Skyrim, so I have nothing better to do than fight the good fight against whoever is doing this. I bet I am keeping them busy.

I suspect much of the criticism of Bethesda games as being buggy is from users who do not recognize hack attacks when the are victims of one.

[HeyYou]

Whats a CyberPower 880? All I am coming up with is surge protectors.....

 

If you are seeing advertising in-game, or at your windows desktop, then you are infected with malware. Scan your system. Use more than one tool. You are premium user, so, you shouldn't be seeing advertising on this site in any event.

Edited June 3, 2020 by HeyYou

[anjenthedog]

I agree with HeyYou. if you're seeing this sort of stuff, you have way bigger problems that the normal instabilities we suffer when pushing Skyrim beyond its original intent.

[iXenite]

Your post is almost unintelligible. All I was able to gather from it is that you are having a hard time getting Skyrim to work, and that Windows 10 is updating, and you might have malware in your computer. How any of it connects though, and the heart of what you're posting is a complete mystery however.

[wfandrews]

Your problem has nothing to do with Steam, Nexus or Bethesda. If after running Windows Defender and I would suggest Malwarebytes you still have a problem I would wipe your hard drive with a program like Dban and reinstall your OS.

 

From the sound of it that is about all that is going to help.

 

Although as I have no idea just what the heck a CyberPower 880 is if you feel this advice is irrelevant feel free to ignore it.

[anjenthedog]

ftr, regarding the OP's computer: see https://www.cyberpowerpc.com/category/gaming-pcs/

(methinks he or she meant to say the Cyberpower 8800, not 880)

 

If indeed it is an 8800, rather than the stated "880", its spec appear to be more than enough to run the game. Getting infected by a virus....well, that's another issue and totally unrelated to either the PC or the game.

 

To the OP, when you get things fixed, I'd strongly recommend that you stop visiting questionable websites. Or at least get some decent protection before doing so.