OP, did you have any antivirus software installed? What was that?
If you didn't have, you should consider install one, even one of the free products.
If you did have, please share more details, since maybe there's a product or configuration others also have and it is inefficient.
Thanks for sharing this experience.
you are right,anti virus is really needed nowadays,if it's about money,i really encourage to pay for premium anti virus for the security and safety
it's better paying off the antivirus company for a little money rather than getting hacked than suddenly become poor,it's digital world that criminality is everywhere