Malware (short for Malicious Software) is a type of software designed to access a computer system without the owner's informed consent.
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Possible malware files, cannot determine if a threat
During my routine PC cleaning, I noticed a few things that may have been overlooked by MBAM Pro, Windows Defender, and Spybot S&D (all up-to-date, of course). I have never seen them before, on my ...
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Roozz player: How to get rid of?
I keep getting this popup every now and then on my Windows 7 laptop:
I found this Roozz player in "Add/Remove programs" and uninstalled it, but the popup still appears. I do not remember installing ...
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What is Conime.exe and is it safe to delete / remove from startup?
Why am I posting this?
After googling this, the answers were very unclear, scattered and gave different answers. So, once I had worked out what this process was and what it does, I thought I'd help ...
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How to scan and detect spying software
I have a friend who caught his landlord in his apartment using his laptop (he moved out afterward). The next time he tried to log in, his password was changed. I fixed the password problem but I got ...
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Default homepage, and search engine changed in all the browsers
Default homepage, and search engine changed in Chrome, IE and Firefox . Every time I make a change in Firefox, when it works till I close the browser. When the browser is started the next time , same ...
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Getting malware through JavaScript and an img tag
I was browsing a website which caused Avast to create a notification that it protected me from an infection. Over the next half hour, this notification popped up again a few times.
The Avast message ...
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What the “Yahoo developer YQL console virus” actually is and how to eradicate it?
For already about 3 years a computer at an office demonstrates sudden attacks of "the http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console redirect virus" from from time to time - it starts redirecting all ...
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Chrome freezes when I search facebook in google.com, using chrome
I search facebook in google.com, in chrome and the results appear instantly. But, chrome freezes for 5-6 seconds after the results are displayed. This happens ALL the time. What could be the reason ...
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my wordpress site blacklisted as malware by google [migrated]
Two years ago I've built a small Wordpress site for a friend of mine, and some weeks ago I got a warning mail from my ISP, about a 'worldwide attack to Joomla, Wordpress, ...' (well, more or less, it ...
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Preventing unauthorised installation of software in Windows 8
Last night I complained to my wife that in Windows 8 the new Metro interface is so important that Microsoft has valued it over a usable clock. So I commented that I needed to find a widget or ...
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malware has infected PC with Windows 7 OS (64-bit), taken over admin account
and given itself inherited permissions. At the same time, the former owner of PC, myself, and the admin account created under my name is denied any services that have apparently been installed by ...
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Chrome randomly opens a tab and closes is is it malware?
From time to time a tab opens really quickly and closes immediately. Is this some kind of malware or is it a known bug?
How could I find out?
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Problem: Restrictions in effect on computer. Asking me to contact my system administrator
This started happening when I had to restart my computer for an exam so I can get it working faster. When I rebooted it, it stopped giving me the option to do alt-F4 to be able to shut down, ...
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CPU Isssues reaching 80-100% [closed]
When I turn on the computer and directly go to Process Explorer my System Idle Process is 97% which as far as I've been able to tell is a great thing.
My problem is that after a while with the ...
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Questions about malware
I have a couple questions about malware and exploits that I hope someone could answer to help me better understand those topics.
First: I know of two dominant ways to spread malware. The malware ...
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Security Essentials (SE) hangs while scanning ProgramData folder
First I did a complete scan on C:\ and kept getting (after about 1.5M files scanned, which is at the end of the C:\ProgramData folder or the beginning of the C:\Recovery folder)
Then, after ...
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Combine multiple DNS filtering result
Several DNS servers provide filtering against different categories, mostly for the local government 'undesirable content', some for malware, and some for ads. What I want is to create/use a DNS server ...
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Can search engine hijack be prevented in Chrome
Is there a way to prevent installers from changing the default search engine in Chrome? Answers to a similar question talk about a "Protector" feature in development versions from 2011, but I can't ...
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What does an AVG “False alarm” message mean?
My question is about the category of AVG alerts which contain the text "False alarm", such as the one that appears in this old forum thread: ...
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How to remove SelectionLinks extension from Chrome on Windows?
It's not possible to remove it using the standard extension disablement/removal features in Chrome - the checkbox is disabled.
I also found that the extension gets installed under
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Malware duedue.scr? [duplicate]
I recognized that my computer(Win7) always created some links to any usb stick which was connected. These links were called something like videos, pictures and so on. Referring to user directories in ...
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Detect and remove malicious malware chrome extension that opens many tabs with ads
I observed throughout the day yesterday three episodes where my processor gets hijacked for a minute and the memory gets maxed out (12 gigs). The culprit was a seemingly infinite number of tabs being ...
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EFI partition malware?
I have a 2011 Macbook Pro, running 10.8.2 and was worried that the laptop may have been tampered with while left unattended for a few days while abroad in Asia.
I have mounted my EFI partition using:
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Unfamiliar Application Running tsp2uvc.exe
I was going through my wife's computer today and I found an application running in the task manager called tsp2uvc.exe. I am unfamiliar with this application and so have killed it with the Process ...
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How to unhide files from registry?
My flash memory have a Malware. after I plugged it to my laptop I'm not able to see hidden files anymore. I tried these methods but I still can't change the radio button in folder and options from ...
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Disable chrome auto refresh bug
When chrome starts, whenever I open a new tab and start surfing, the tab in which I have the focus gets refreshed to Google.com. Every time I change, after 1 or 2 secs it gets back to Google.com. When ...
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My own computer is looking for exploitable hardware on the network
I am using Mac OS X 10.7.5 on an iMac. I was working on creating a node-js http server and I logged my own IP address looking for a response to "GET /currentsetting.htm" about every 5 minutes.
From ...
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Router logs showing something strange
I had been playing a game earlier when I started lagging, not abnormal though it was happening sporadically over the period of about an hour, which is pretty weird for me. I went to check my router to ...
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Edit Windows registry without starting Windows
I've just received a laptop that has a nasty malware/ransomware (you can find more details here)
From what I've read it's enough for me to start in safe mode and remove some items from startup run a ...
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system clock keep changing
I'm using Windows 7 and the system clock is almost stuck within two hours.
When I change it to the right time, the clock will stick to the right time + 2 hours (after reaching the right time + 2 hours ...
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Firefox for Linux hacked (malware)
I'm running Linux Mint, with Firefox 12.0 (Mozilla Firefox 1.0 for Linux Mint). I also have one Firefox extension installed: Live HTTP headers. I am not using Firefox Sync.
Whenever I go to any ...
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Is it possible to recover a bricked computer?
I received a complaint from a relative, that their computer had crashed. Me, being the nice relative I am, agreed to take a look. They told me that just before it crashed they received a message ...
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How to remove perl script process taking up CPU
I've got a process running on my server (CentOS 5.2) that is taking up 99-100% of my CPU. The ps command reveals the name fakeproc as follows:
30571 ? R 3620:06 fakeproc
Running top ...
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How can I determine if a link is safe?
I received an email (via GMail) containing single URL link. For the purpose of this question, it is irrelevant whether link came from someone I know, because origin can be spoofed or faked.
I suspect ...
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rundll32.exe : infected examples pushing cpu to %100 . Malware bytes couldnt detect it niether could Win Def how do i fix it [duplicate]
My laptop is almost useless. The rundll32 application is infected with malware. I have tried several malitious software removal tools all for nought.
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IE 10 keeps crashing after malware removal
I removed some malware from Win 8 Pro, but now IE 10 crashes 98% of the time when it opens.
Faulting application name: IEXPLORE.EXE, version: 10.0.9200.16453, time stamp: 0x509b0dfb
Faulting module ...
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FBI Ransomware Malware Remove Fast
A computer in our household got hit by the FBI "ransomware" virus.
Here are details of what happened (Win 7 Home Premium):
Family member was in a forum.
AVG Free (which was up-to-date) warned of ...
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How can I remove http://p.chango.com/static/c.js from my site?
I found some code injected somehow on my site. It links to
<script src="http://p.chango.com/static/c.js.
How can I get rid of it?
Is this coming from my browser? Mind you, I see it in ...
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How does ransomware access OS and browser without asking the user?
I have recently been infected by a ransomware (POLICE) malware after accessing to a supposedly inoffensive web page about "fuel injection drive data".
I didn't have suffient protection activated.
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Removing malware [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get rid of malicious spyware, malware, viruses or rootkits from my PC?
My laptop get infected by virus or just malware. Gradually I get rid of it. It was ...
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What's *nix terminal command to find and remove found files?
I have a malware on my server.
So I've figured out how to find all that malicious files
grep -r --include*.php "Some String from files" .
That seems work fine!
but how to delete them?
I've tried ...
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Cannot access specific webpages at seemingly random times
I recently started experiencing this very interesting issue. At random, a webpage that might have worked 30 minutes before, would suddenly fail to load, giving me a server nonresponsive. I know this ...
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Spam pop-up in every browser
When I'm browsing on the web—regardless of the browser—once in a while there is a pop-up in the bottom left corner.
I tried scanning the computer with Ad-Aware & malwarebyte.org but that ...
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Taskhost.exe looking suspicious in Process Explorer
I'm thinking I have a virus on my Windows 8 (x64). I downloaded and opened Process Explorer (Sysinternals) and started analyzing the running processes.
I came across taskhost.exe and saw it did not ...
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How to remove fastaddressbar?
somehow I downloaded and installed spyware or malware. I do not know.
I know that if I write somethin in field where you put as a website link I get web engine results but not by google but ...
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High memory usage on Windows 7 unable to open browser
I switched on my laptop at 9 o’clock this morning and it is now 14:00 hours, where in after a series of reboots, hard or soft, I am able to open my browser.
I opened a notepad and noted down ...
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Connecting an infected HDD externally to another PC
I have a laptop HDD that contains one or more viruses. I want to remove it and connect it via a SATA-to-USB connector to my desktop computer, right-click the drive, then click "scan for viruses". Is ...
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Revert to “clean” or “saved” snapshot after executing malware in VirtualBox
I am using my virtualbox to dump the API calls for malware by using a tool. I did saved a "clean/uncontaminated" state before I executed the malware.
However I did not find a way to revert back ...
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I can't open/ping any antivirus sites
I have a problem with a virus in windows 7, I don't know what kind of virus is infected my OS, I installed kasersky antivirus, and clear all detected viruses. After that I can't open any antivirus ...
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Lightweight non-intrusive virus/malware protection for Windows Vista? [closed]
I don't know much about Windows, but my girlfriend has a windows Vista laptop and it seems to get frequently bogged down by the McAfee virus/malware protection she has installed and it becomes almost ...
