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[HELP] I think I'm infected with UNKNOWN malware/virus
I have a newly bought laptop, an Acer Aspire E 15. What that lead me to think that I'm infected is because when I tried to visit my Windows folder (because I was searching for 'SystemApps' folder to disable Cortana) I saw random weird files with random names and all of the are 1KB only.
I have not done anything yet. I have an Avast Free installed and a Norton pre-installed when I bought it.
Please help me.
NOTE:
I don't want to reformat it, I was traumatized on windows update, I don't want to download updates that took 2 days making my laptop unusable because of resource hog of windows updates.
EDIT:
I tried to delete them and checked them every time if they will return and they did not so I stopped checking it but a little while ago, they appeared again.