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what does it mean for MalwareBytes to find malicious registry keys but nothing else?
I have a machine that is obviously infected, and when I ran MalwareBytes it told me that it found some "malicious" registry keys (surprisingly enough these contained file path to currently ...
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Should I disable my realtime virus protection while running a different malware scanner?
I use Microsoft Security Essentials for my virus protection but I also run scheduled scans with Malwarebytes and Spybot Search & Destroy. Should I disable the MSE realtime scanner when these other ...
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How to catch a malware process on my Mac?
Situation:
1st occurrence: without reason a new draft in mail opened up with non-sense text in the body, no TO,CC or subject
2nd and reoccurring every day around 2 PM: bing search with non-sense ...
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Any information about the AsyncMapLite Trojan?
I recently noticed "something" hijacking Google search results (on Firefox!) and so I decided to run a scan by Malwarebytes.
Sure enough, it found a Trojan.Agent with the following information:
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Impossible new virus [closed]
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What to do if my computer is infected by a virus or a malware?
I have been hit by an absolutely impossible new virus. Only in the past 3 months or so the internet has ...
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Strange localization problem
I spent several months in a foreign country (Ukraine). Now, many websites that I visit (at least the ones that support it) default to Russian. I'm worried that I might have some type of malware on ...
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Anti virus integration for Thunderbird?
Basic, newbie question:
I am preparing to do a new system installation of Windows, and would like to setup Thunderbird for email. Since I am beginning with a clean slate, how should I setup my ...
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Safely view websites that may be harmful
I posted a car on Craigslist the other day and since then I've been getting nothing but scam emails that contain links the people want me to click. I know not to clink the links and that it's a scam, ...
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How do I properly check if a program is a virus/trojan in VMware?
How I should check if a program is a virus in VMware? Some programs I do need admin ability to install and it makes sense. But how do I know if it's doing more than I want? Some thoughts are:
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How can I make my OS appear as if it is running virtualized?
A lot of malware these days is able to detect when it is running virtualized under VMWare, VirtualPC, WINE, or even in a sandbox such as Anubis or CWSandBox.
This essentially means that malware will ...
