A software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer.
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Please help me get rid of asmonitor.exe
It might be silly and I trully apologize if the question is not apropriate here, but I have really tried and got to nowhere. I have a windows xp startup error which indicates something about ...
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Can't open Control Panel or IE
I have a XP computer where when ever I try to open Control Panel nothing happens, nothing flashes on the screen.
Same thing with Internet Explorer.
I've scanned the computer with Malwarebytes and ...
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My computer gives a known virus warning and reboots
"Windows must now restart because the Plug and Play service terminated
unexpectedly."
"Windows must now restart becasue the DCOM Server Process launcher
service terminated unexpectedly."
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Strange text on Internet Explorer's title bar
I have an XP machine in which my Internet Explorer's title bar says "Lord rahul cool."
Example: if you open google.com, IE's title bar says 'Google - LORD RAHUL COOL' earlier it was like 'Google - ...
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How do flash drives give viruses? [closed]
I'm not sure is this is the right place to put this, so let me know for future reference so I ask questions like these elsewhere.
My question is simple. How does one go about creating a virus that ...
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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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IP Helper Virus?
Lately I've been having trouble browsing the internet on my computer, where it seems to take a really long time to connect to websites, or it just seems that the internet is just not responding at ...
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Odd behavior of permissions and icons
After some virus had infected my Windows 7, I did a complete format and re-installed the OS. I was just installing applications and copying back some data when I noticed some shortcuts changing their ...
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How do I manually find and remove a virus? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Computer is infected by a virus or a malware, what do I do now?
I believe I have a virus and the virus scanning tools I tried so far haven't found any (I will continue ...
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How to know if your computer is hit by a dnschanger virus?
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is on the final stage of its Operation Ghost Click, which strikes against the menace of the
DNSChanger virus and trojan. Infected PCs running the ...
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How to be certain you don't have a virus when anti-virus scanners find nothing malicious? (Windows 7)
I recently spent many hours troubleshooting a laptop that could not connect to the internet. The laptop exhibited no other unnatural behavior, and so my first thoughts were to try connecting to other ...
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Can viruses be spread via VGA cables?
Are VGA cables too "dumb" to spread malware from one device to another device?
Background: I'm giving a talk tomorrow, and the laptop I'm presenting on will be connected via VGA cable to another ...
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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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How to make sure a system is not infected by a specific trojan? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Computer is infected by a virus or a malware, what do I do now?
In this case it's the TR/Alureon.19456U.3 trojan. On this Antivir site it's stated to be detected:
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How to check for false positive?
Looks like I've been infected by a virus, namely NSIS:Downloader-BX [Drp] in file named DpiSca.exe but...
I wasn't visiting any usual suspect sites (warez, pr0n etc) and nobody else was using my ...
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A virusproof (ransomware…) strategy for backup on a NAS?
I bought a NAS to share files and as backup solution.
Recently a netbook got infected by a ransomware. All files on the netbook and most of the file on the NAS were destroyed (the virus shuffles the ...
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Virus causes Windows to auto-reboot every time I log on? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Computer is infected by a virus or a malware, what do I do now?
I had the rouge Live Security Platinum. It is the new version (3.6.1) of the one that came earlier this ...
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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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executables on external hard drive detect as viruses
I've been avoiding this issue for quite some time, but I feel like this is a good time to ask about it.
I have an external hard drive loaded up with most of my important and large files. for a few ...
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Suspected virus on Wireshark, but antivirus didn't detect it
I tried Kasparsky and AVG, which didn't find the virus. Tried "search and destroy", which is anti spyware, that found stuff, but didn't remove the virus.
I think there is a virus on the computer. So ...
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In LAN , One System cant access some Websites except Google
In Our Office we are facing some weird problem , one of our staff PC unable to open may websites except Google and other websites .
PC is re formatted and stored fresh Windows Xp but still getting ...
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Is Hulu hacked? Or is it my Mac browser?
Do you know why I'm directed to a url on piratenpartij.nl when I try to play Jon Stewart on Hulu.com?
I can't figure out if my Mac has a virus, or if it's something on my Chrome browser, or if ...
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Service to help a relative remove a virus? [closed]
Does anyone know of a service that you can call that will help someone remove a virus over the phone/internet? I don't want to spend my Sunday helping a relative, but would prefer to pay someone else ...
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What is the risk of not running an anti virus on a Mac?
One of the family's computers is a Macbook Air, recently the virus subscription expired and my problem is to decide whether to renew/replace it. When the Mac was bought (2010), the anti virus program ...
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Screen graphics suddenly distorts and pc hangs
I recently faced a problem with my XP desktop PC.While i was working on one of the server application development(like Mochasoft for AS/400),my screen suddenly distorted and the operations ...
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Something has taken over my computer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Computer is infected by a virus or a malware, what do I do now?
I started up my computer and a program seems to be spawning a popup:
"c:\windows\syswow64\cmd.exe /c ...
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Some program itself starts and stops in a fraction of seconds.. whats that
Some program itself starts and stops in a fraction of seconds..
Yes and it happens so quickly that i am never able to see the name or even the icon of the program..
it is visible only in the ...
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I need knowledgeable IT support with this virus. What can I do? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Computer is infected by a virus or a malware, what do I do now?
I have been noticing a big increase in my clients' complaining that the problem wasn't fixed, and that ...
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What are the possible consequences of clicking on a link? [closed]
Presuming I'm not going to go enter my credit card details or passwords in, not going to go download anything and execute it etc.
Is it possible to actually get a virus or have something else bad ...
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When I delete files in Windows 7 they are not immediately deleted, do I have malware?
When installing software and in explorer.exe files don't show up as deleted! However, when I try and delete them again (with shift-delete), explorer says that "this file has already been deleted". ...
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Optical mouse began to act strangely. What can be done?
Suddenly my mouse began to behave in a very strange way: it doesn't draw strait lines as it used to do before whenever I moved the mouse more or less straightly, and also the cursor began to move by ...
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Do I have a virus? What is this green icon?
Just got a new computer at work and was just starting to install all of my required software on it.
I downloaded something and may have installed it by mistake (it could have been TortoiseSVN).
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Best way to find rogue processes on windows xp
There is a Windows XP machine whose CPU usage is continuously at 100%.
When watching processes in the Task Manager (sorted by CPU usage), the percentage does not add up to a 100%.
This points to a ...
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How do I make Internet Explorer stop from popping up every 10 minutes?
I don't even use IE, but it keeps popping up webpages every 10 minutes.
I killed it in task manager, but it reopens itself 10 minutes later. I tried to uninstall IE completely, but it doesn't really ...
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anti-virus software and Flash's AVHardwareDisable
This site claims that
[The AVHardwareDisable setting] in flash configuration file has been changed by
anti-virus software
which disables camera/microphone access for all sites. The article ...
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How can a pendrive filesystem become damaged?
Recently, I saw a directory containing strange filenames on a pendrive with a FAT32 filesystem.
ß׸~ˇ¨>#>&;><ä, 2065.5.1 etc.
It's very strange, since I always remove the device ...
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MSE Virus removal
I downloaded MSE and finally detected all the problems none of the antivirus programs would ... turns out I had 29 exploit viruses and 5 trojans thanks to a program I downloaded a while back ... most ...
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Sirefef Virus Removal [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Computer is infected by a virus or a malware, what do I do now?
Sirefef.R
& Sirefef.AH
Have unfortunately infected my system. I do not know what to do. I have ...
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Files hidden on USB hard disk because of virus, how to clean?
I have 1 GB hard drive. First all of its contents were gone after a virus got in (when I have the drive to someone else). After research found that it was a virus may be. I run Nortan antivus and ...
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My webcam just came on “out of the blue”
I have a Microsoft LifeCam HD sitting atop my monitor. Today, completely out of the blue, its light came on -- I was simply browsing the web (in Chrome) when it happened. After about 5 minutes the ...
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Virus behaviour but couldn't find any virus on Windows 7
I found a strange virus-like behaviour on my PC running Windows 7. I'm not able to type properly with my keyboard. Sometimes it won't respond, and some other times it adds characters indefinitely to ...
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Seeing the process lnqtkqhegaq.exe on windows 7 x64. What is it? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Computer is infected by a virus or a malware, what do I do now?
One of my friend's yahoo account was hacked recently (the account was accessed from Mexico, Poland, ...
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“start” action on right-click
I was hit with a virus the other day. It was one of the viruses that pretend to be anti-virus software and keep hitting you with fake warning messages.
I ran spybot and malware bytes, and the ...
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Virus Effected to my pendrive
I am using scandisk 8 GB pendrive. I am a programmer so I put my project details and my projects in that pendrive, by using folders. Now the problem is that my folders are becomig hidden, when I am ...
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How do I kill a process that keeps respawning? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Computer is infected by a virus or a malware, what do I do now?
I got infected by a virus. It looks like I removed it, but it somehow injected a few more processes (I ...
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What file types could possibly be a worm or contain a viral infection
On Windows what file extensions do you have to look out for concerning viruses/worms? I ask because I'm wondering if there's a point in scanning .cfm files.
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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 ...
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Blue screen error code 1000008e
I'm getting blue screens, mostly when trying to boot a program that required a lot of memory (games, photo editing software.) So far I've only managed to catch one set of error codes:
BCCode: ...
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Transfer files from infected computer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Computer is infected by a virus or a malware, what do I do now?
I have a computer (Windows XP 32 bit) which is infected with viruses. I have tried pretty much everything ...
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Can system restore remove virus from the computer?
Can a system restore to a past time remove the virus from the computer?
