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Update: I successfully re-installed my windows and all the problems have gone. I scanned the backed up files with Malwarebytes and they are all clean. The PUP from Google Chrome is also gone. Thanks for your advice :)

I have googled the untrusted files and discovered they are part of a search engine that installs without your permission. I have followed some instructions and now when I scan I get only one PUP instead of two. So it is not really a keylogger (I had problems with this search engine a long time...

Update: Malewarebytes keeps finding two potentially unwanted programs in AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\UserData\Default\Prefferences. Even though I send them to quarantine they keep appearing after every scan.. Why does that happen?

I still got the premium trial version (because I was thinking it may have more features that would help me and I'm going to format my PC in a few days.). It detected 100+ infected files and cleaned them. There wasn't any mention of a Keylogger but I found some PUPs (Potentially unwanted...

Thanks a lot for your answer. If someone needs more details, I suspect I have a keylogger because I accidentally clicked a link that looked suspicious and it got me pretty worried. The website may (or may not) have installed something in the background, so I am taking some measures to be 100%...

I'm sorry for bumping but I am quite worried. What I want to ask is, can a keylogger be installed inside an already existing .jpg file, or a .mp3 file? Or is it a whole new file installed?

Greetings. I suspect that I have a keylogger installed on my PC. Luckly I suspected this quite fast and managed to secure most of my important accounts. What I want to do now, is re-install my windows. However I need to know something before I begin doing this: Can I safely back-up files to a...