I found this specific adware on my laptop called "PC App Store" I have only ever used this laptop for school and I've had it for less than a year. I am a computer science student so I download a lot of files from professors and from github links they send us. Besides school I use it for YouTube and Twitch but no fishy pirating websites. Is it possible my professors could've accidentally sent us virus's? I am not very well versed on virus's and adware.

Extra information ig:

- I use google chrome and use ad blocker extensions that I use on my main PC as well and have no issues on it.

- the laptop uses windows 10

Hello everyone, my first time posting here. My dumb self accidentally installed a virus tonight called PC App Store. I’ve watched a lot of videos and read a lot to try and get rid of it and it went well actually. The pop ups are completely gone and I disabled this and PC Auto Updater (which is apparently linked to it) in task manager. However, I still have one problem that persists. PC App Store still appears in my installed apps and whenever I go to uninstall it an error message pops up blocking me. Is this something i should be worried about or have I done enough to stop it?

Thanks in advance

In order to delete "PC App Store" for windows, you need to search in your hard drive for "fa_rss" Make sure to tick "all subfolders" too. Now you need to take ownership of it, look here if you don't know how to. https://www.windowscentral.com/how-take-ownership-files-and-folders-windows-10 If it doesn't work, go to task manager, search for it and then delete it. Empty Recycle Bin and PC App Store wont open at all.

Do I need to do a full system wipe? This laptop is pretty old and I dont have anything on it I really need.

I recently accidentally downloaded PC app store and it made chrome crash and when i reopened it it was defaulting to yahoo search even though I had google search set to default. I did a system restore to three days ago and then chrome would not open.

I reinstalled chrome and was able to go into my search engines and delete a bunch of extra ones below the default which I wasn't exactly sure how they were overriding google as my default but that seemed to fix that issue.

I ran a scan with malwarebites and it detected a PUP and Malware allegedly so I quarantined those. Ill attach an image showing the files.

It also corrupted my chrome extensions one of which was my password manager. I saw some people saying that PC App store is just adware but I was just wondering if anyone had any input or if I should do anything else. And if I should leave the files in quarantine or delete them.

Thanks in advance for your help!

I was downloading ExplorerPatch and PC APP STORE took over my laptop screen, selling its products , I'm locked in , can't access settings to delete app . I've shut down etc . It's there on screen requests cc details etc . Im on windows 11 , new Acer aspire.
Can't access Safe Mode , shift , reset etc HELP !!

Summary of events in order: Idiot me tried to download a font from a sketchy website, it installed "PC App Store," browsers started acting weird, saw a McAfee warning, I did a virus scan and deleted everything, I looked in all my folders and hidden folders, I looked at task manager, did more virus scans (I mainly used malwarebytes because that's what everyone said to use), restarted my computer, and everything seems good. However, PC app store still shows up in the list of apps in settings. When I tried to uninstall it, my computer said it doesn't exist. If I search for it from the taskbar thing, it also doesn't exist. Everything with my computer seems perfectly fine, but I'm really paranoid. How do I make sure that I deleted everything?

1st picture: After I got the virus, Chrome and Edge looked like that and all my searches redirected to Yahoo.

2nd picture: The app I'm trying to uninstall

3rd picture: What happens when I try to uninstall it

I've scoured all over Reddit and this seems pretty common, but no one has the same issue as me where the app still shows up in settings, even after I thought I deleted everything. I really hope this is a glitch or something. Please help

I couldn't delete this the conventional way, so I stopped the task in the task manager "Watchdog of PC APP STORE" and then found the folder under C > Users > me > PC App Store and deleted that.

Now looking on Reddit it doesn't seem that process truly deletes it, and there may be additional files they installed? Is that true, or did I actually completely delete that program?

Edit: I ran a trial version of Malwarebytes and it quarantined 28 additional files linked to the PC APP STORE. How do I delete these quarantined files? There are no options within the trial version to do so (from the looks of it, I clicked everything).

Also, is there another thing I can run aside from Malwarebytes to check if there's anything left of the PC APP STORE?

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