System possibly hijacked by malware (downloadable .rar file)

I am sorry about the time you lost. Next time please have a look in the Profile > Drafts,if you can find your lost text you wrote. Normally, by default discourse is saving them there.

This topic has been open for 3days now, several users answered. And the Title has been written as “click bait”. Panic making.

The OP made a series of silly steps who caused this difficulties.
And also, the topic is not Fedora specific. This could have happened on any Distribution with all this silly mistakes.

Unfortunately we do already have some panic making users who just show up when they have this kind of issues and security preoccupations. So I was taking this topic out of the way, and did put it there where it belongs, in the off topic section.

And, it is also is not really nice for a first topic, from your side @soaring-kettlecorn. Attacking others while they also spend a lot of time to read here and try to keep a bit order.