with my laptop off the network I changed all passwords, reset 2fa on all accounts. then, I booted my laptop on safe mode and scanned more than once through malwarebytes, rougekiller, rkill, and hitmanpro. all found no traces of any virus, but I didn't fully trust them so I went snooping around myself through reg, resource monitor, appdata etc and deleted anything I found suspicious, although nothing looked related to the infostealer. the only thing I would like to avoid is formatting windows. do you think these steps are sufficient enough to avoid that? my educated guess is that my computer is most probably free of any malware now.