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How report virus/malicious emails [closed]
Every now and then I get an obviously malicious mail with zipped attachments like .com or .exe (My Server doesn't detect the viruses neither)
Those are most likely virus or trojans but my Antivirus ...
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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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my credit card leaked [closed]
I got a phone call from someone pretend from Amazon and he want to confirm my credit card so he asked the expire date and security code when I refused he give me full name, address, last 4 digits of ...
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Is it possible to get any virus with (javascript, flash, iframes) disabled?
I'm expert at computers so I dont fall for small tricks like phishing and such.
I just wanted to know if there is any way you could actually get infected without (iframes, javascript, flash) enabled ...
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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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How Do Online Virus Scanners Work? [closed]
I have seen a lot on free online virus scanners available online lately. I was considering trying one of them out, but I have a question. If I have company word documents, excel spreadsheets, etc on ...
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How to chek whether pc is compromised? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get rid of malicious spyware, malware, viruses or rootkits from my PC?
I have been doing offshore apps development since 6 months. Last week one of my client ...
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Security Essentials not installing and I suspect my machine is infected with malware
My mouse seems to be automatically right-clicking every few seconds, and sometimes constantly. My cursor will abruptly become an hourglass for a moment every once in a while, as well. It happens in ...
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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?
More ...
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Did Firefox running in Mac OS X get hacked
When I try to do a Google search in Firefox, I can't click on any of the links. They're just regular black text, not hyperlinks. I even tried safe mode and disabling all the plugins. I was running ...
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Why does a site suddenly thinks my network is compromised?
I am on Debian 6 with all updates installed. I was trying to open a link from archtecturelab.net, when up pops this warning page (see below). What's going on? I don't have any windows machines on my ...
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How do I browse a hard drive that has viruses?
I'm going to be connecting a notebook SATA drive to my computer via USB. This drive may be faulty so it may not work at all, however before it went supposedly "bad" it had a virus on it.
My computer ...
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How to make USB drive or pen drive write protected? [duplicate]
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how to write protect a USB key ?
I have a pen drive which I used to carry some files from my laptop to other public computers, these public computers are virus infected. ...
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How can I remove what I think is to be a virus? [duplicate]
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What to do if my computer is infected by a virus or a malware?
I have used everything that I can think of. I'm not even sure how I even got this virus, if it is a virus. ...
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Why shouldn't we open an image in an email?
Most email clients do not display an image by default in the content of an email.
But I don't understand this yet. How can displaying image job attack the computer?
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Which File Did Microsoft Safety Scanner Fix?
Microsoft Safety Scanner says it partially fixed a file. How do I find out which file it fixed?
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Is my host machine completely isolated from a virus-infected virtual machine?
If I am running a Windows 7 virtual machine on a Windows 7 host using
VMWare or VirtualBox (or anything else) and the virtual machine is completelly
overloaded with viruses and another malicious code, ...
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Why is windows more prone to viruses than linux? [duplicate]
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How is Linux not prone to viruses, malware and those kinds of things?
I want to get some broad level sense of why Windows is more prone to viruses than Linux.. What ...
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Why is Google prompting me with Captchas?
Why is Google prompting me with Captchas?
I turned on urlsnooper2 and found this (below). I don't know why my computer would request any of it. What I changed in the past few days is:
Reformatted ...
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Reality of a Windows Vista “recovery disk” virus?
I recently borrowed a disk from a guy I don't really know. It was a Windows Vista install disk (lost my old one, and needed to reformat). The disk was a copy of the original, and I was wondering how ...
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Difference Between Microsoft's Safety Scanner and Software Removal Tool
What's the difference between the MSS and MSRT?
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Security threat caused by Dropbox?
Recently I received a security threat alert triggered by Dropbox, as seen in the screenshot below:
What happened here? Or this is a false alert from Microsoft Security Essentials?
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Infection of Trojan:Win32/Agent.ABIC
I have AVG on the majority of my network and a few MS security essentials installs. This bugger has been popping up on MSE on a few PCs and keeps coming back. I've looked at MS's write up of it but ...
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Can a malicious program infect a computer from another computer on a typical home wireless network?
Can a malicious program infect a computer from another computer on a typical home wireless network?
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Does Juniper Networks provide keyloggers with their software?
I noticed that I had a "USB Mass Storage Device" plugged in when there wasn't in fact anything plugged in to any USB port. I turned it off via Windows (XP), but it's quite concerning. This was after ...
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How can I find out if a link is “Clean” or “Dirty”?
Today I received a link in an email. Is there any way to be sure it will not lead to a virus before I open it? I googled it and came up with no hits.
EDIT: I have sent a message to the sender ...
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Various ways by which my computer could get infected by Virus
1) What are the different ways by which a computer could get infected by virus or nay other malicious programs.
2) What precaution should I take
3) What to do if I get infected by a new kind of ...
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Post-compromise security scan; anything else?
My girlfriend checked her Gmail yesterday morning, and then found, later on in the day, that it would no longer accept her password. She also found that this happened to her Hotmail and Yahoo! ...
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How to remove AV Security Suite [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What to do if my computer is infected by a virus or a malware?
I've been hit by this one three times in the last 3 weeks. It just suddenly pops up with a scan and ...
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How to deal with a trojan infection? [duplicate]
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Computer is infected by a virus or a malware, what do I do now?
I was browsing some websites and somehow obtained a trojan through some sort of silent download. Google ...
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Is my system compromised? I got message about ntoskrnl.exe
I am not sure this question belongs her or not but let me try.
When I get to office this morning One of my colligues had a problem with his laptop and told me he had trouble restarting it and when he ...
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How does a virus load itself when you start your computer?
What i know is that most viruses use the registry/start up folder to add them to the start up list. Other may use an auto start windows service.
What about the rest, if the virus is not in the ...
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How do I check if a program can potentially be a virus?
I am running Windows XP in a VM. I want to download a few applications and install the one by one and check if they potentially can be a virus. I assume virus would need to add something to the ...
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can a virus execute by itself?
is there any type of viruses can execute by itself after download then on the HDD without clicking on it??
if there is ..... can you refer me to any sites about them?
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My XP computer is trying to boot into Linux
This has happened twice now. I wake in the morning (yes noon is morning) I go to my computer to find it is stuck in the middle of rebooting. The last few lines of the log show the following.
GRUB ...
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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:
How ...
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Are executables(.exe) favorite slaves of viruses?
Often viruses are attached to an .exe file.
Are executables main target of viruses so as to cause maximum (rather faster) harm on the destination side?
Are there any other formats of files or any ...
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Worms vs Virus what's the difference? [closed]
I don't understand very well the difference between viruses ans worms, it seems that worms don't need any host to duplicate himself.
But somebody can explain it? It means that a worm IS a soft? and ...
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Virus protection for flash drives
At school, there is a large network with lots of non-technical minded people and lots of viruses. How can I protect my flash drive from these worms and viruses so I don't bring them home and infect my ...
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Rectify virus in LAN
I am sriram, we have a problem our company today, that is
virus is attacked our LAN, so please give suggestion to rectify the virus
It will effects
Taskbar is disabled
Network connection is not ...
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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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How can visiting a webpage infect your computer?
My mother's computer recently became infected with some sort of rootkit. It began when she received an email from a close friend asking her to check out some sort of webpage. I never saw it, but my ...
