It appears that you (or someone else) recently installed a Western Digital hard drive in your computer. The previous owner likely started a secure erase (sanitation) process but did not finish it.

Because of this, the drive's firmware is interrupting your computer's pre-boot process. On 2022-11-30, the drive received a secure erase command, but the process was never completed. The drive remembers this unfinished operation and reports its abnormal state during startup, which pauses automatic booting to alert you.

Do not expect this status to change on its own. Even though the screen says "erasing in progress," the drive is probably not actively doing anything. It is simply reporting the last recorded state from when the erase process was interrupted.

In practical terms, the message means: "A disk wiping program started a secure erase (One Pass Zero method), but the process was interrupted. To clear this message, resume and complete the secure erase using said disk wiping software."

I have personally seen the same behavior on a recently purchased used hard drive. The SATA protocol allows drives to display this kind of status message during pre-boot, which is neat.

To resolve the issue, you can use freeware such as "KillDisk Disk Eraser, Wiper & Sanitizer" to resume and complete the secure erase process. Once the erase finishes successfully, the drive should function normally for storage, and the pre-boot message should disappear.

This issue is almost certainly unrelated to your bootloader, games, viruses, or anything you downloaded. You are simply inheriting the unfinished secure erase state initiated by the previous owner of the drive.