I hope he recovers it. it becoming a real pain tbh and the anti virus barely detect it until they try to breach GOOGLE PASSWORDS. Someone hacked into my siblings accounts in a similar manner. Honestly eveb 3rd party apps verified by antivirus which was in our case too.
Moral of the story, Don't run anything 3rd party shit as administrator unless its a platform known for their product's safety.
Damn that frigging sucks man, such a terrifying situation to be in potentially, especially in this day and age and the way technology is advancing and growing in importance too, especially social (credit) media and such!
You're saying the 3rd party apps tried to hack you or something? That your AV cleared them as safe? I think someone tried to hack my google accounts earlier this year and Google was giving me hell over it for a while lol. They were trying to call me "sus", but I went through such thorough checks of my system and such and found nothing wrong no matter what I did, so I wonder if someone tried to hack me or what and flagged their security measures or w/e? I'm not versed in these things but it was very confusing and annoying.