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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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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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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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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How to restore Windows Firewall after some malware deleted its service?
Yesterday I visited some web site, and apparently got infected via some Flash exploit. Microsoft Security essentials immediately kicked in, and displayed a warning about four items:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Blocking Intellitxt (random ad links on browsers)
On my browsers, links are created on random words within a text and when I hover over them a small ad window pops up, which is quite annoying.
I read here that this is called Intellitxt and that ...
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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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Linux keylogger without root or sudo! Is it real?
Somebody on Youtube claims to have a keylogger on Ubuntu that was neither executed nor installed as root. The link below shows a demo of it working.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1fZAZTwyPQ
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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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is battery care software is a malware [closed]
I have googled to find a software which can be used to monitor my battery life and its performance and most of the post,blogs suggested battery care but in cnet users review they have acquised battery ...
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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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How do I get rid of malicious spyware, malware, viruses or rootkits from my PC?
What should I do if my Windows computer seems to be infected with a virus or malware?
What are the symptoms of an infection?
What should I do after noticing an infection?
What can I do to get rid of ...
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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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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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Is “Cleversoft PC Tuneup Maestro” malware?
I found a desktop icon for something called PC TuneUp Maestro on my parents' laptop. Googling it yields pages upon pages of freeware download sites, but I couldn't find anything legitimately ...
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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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What are ways to prevent files with the Right-to-Left Override Unicode character in their name (a malware spoofing method) from being written or read?
What are ways to avoid or prevent files with the RLO (Right-to-Left Override) Unicode character in their name (a malware method to spoof filenames) from being written or read in a Windows PC?
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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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How can I make a Windows PC bullet-proof for home users? [closed]
I realize that virus-proof on a Windows PC is far fetched, but in the interest of keeping time spent as the "family-tech-support" to a minimum, I am looking for ideas to lock a computer down to the ...
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Windows Update and Defender have been disabled by malware (Windows 7 x64)
I get the following error when I try to run windows update and the windows update service does not appear in the list of services.
Windows Update cannot currently check for updates, because the ...
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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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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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Verifying that open source software hasn't been tampered with
I'm about to download some OSS software, and I would like to ensure (with a reasonable degree of certainty) that it hasn't been tampered with to insert malware. Specifically, it's a password manager ...
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Download Virus/Malware Purposefully
Where can I download a virus, work, trojan, etc. for analysis? Yes, I'm actually hunting for malware, rather than keeping it at bay and hiding behind antivirus software and firewalls. I plan to ...
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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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What is the purpose of malware?
I've seen all sorts of speculation on why malware is created and distributed, but is there any hard evidence of what exactly it does and why? Please point me to any online resources.
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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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What does this mean and what do I do about it? crucial filesystem check: Fixing Bogus GID 80 on path /sbin/launchd
A few days ago my website got hacked and a malicious file called images.pl was uploaded which creates a backdoor that allows the file's author to upload/download/do whatever they want. Later I found ...
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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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cng.sys and bluescreen of death at windows 7
I have problem with cng.sys and bluescreen of death on my windows 7 x86 Ultimate.
Once I just restarted my pc and all went wrong. I have tried all memtest and deep malware scan and still ...
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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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Are On-Screen Keyboards Really More Secure?
A quick question: I use on-screen keyboard when entering my bank passwords, credit card numbers, etc., in an effort to guard against malware. Is this a good idea or am I wasting my time? Some internet ...
