Software router intrusion

I recently found an outside device connected to Connectify (software router) that I installed a while back in an attempt to improve my WIFI calling. Essentially, I was trying to use it as an access point for my router.

Once I found the device, I ran AVG and nothing was detected. I installed Malwarebytes and it found 60 issues, most of these were registry edits.

It concerned me enough that I formatted my drive and re-installed Windows.

My main concern is that anything performed on this outside device that was listed in Connectify would be seen by my work's VPN.

Is this possible?

 

For more clarification:
I do not have phone reception in my apartment so I use Wifi calling to call the clients when I am working from home. I was having a lot of dropped calls on Wifi so I set up my computer with a software router in hopes that it would decrease the amount of dropped calls since my router is on the other side of the apartment. The software router didnt make much of an improvement, if any, so I rarely used it.


I now have a good password on my HW router but the password on my software router was weak. I have no idea what encryption was used. The password was my dog's name and I assume that is how they figured it out. I meant to uninstall the thing but I kept forgetting about it.


It looks like one of my neighbors found out my software router's password and was using the connection. I don't know how long this has been going on.

I know for a fact that Connectify was running in one instance while I was connected to the VPN.

Since the software router is on the laptop I connect to my work's VPN, I am wondering if anything done on my neighbor's computer can be seen on my work's VPN?