Everything is a virus?

[Woollyhats]

Fixed it .

I was thinking it might be a virus from what you guys said, so I decided to try replacing my antivirus. As I was replacing it, I noticed the virus scan failed even without an antivirus active on my laptop which was curious.

I temporarily changed a file in the registery (with a short tutorial because I don't actually understand what I did) to make google ignore the failed virus scans, installed a new antivirus software, and discovered a lot of malware and nasty stuff that windows defender definitely missed. They are gone and my browser works again. I changed the setting I changed back to what it was as well.

...Jeez, by the time my usual laptop gets back from the shop I'll be able to fix anything on it just from fixing the problems on this one.