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Is situation (with GPG) possibly a malware attack?
I am taking care of an ubuntu server (22.04) and suddenly I was not able to access some files via FTP. I checked a few things and noticed a gpg root process consuming a lot of CPU. It kept restarting ...
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Is there any way to scan Windows XP folders for viruses from Windows 10
We know that Windows XP is passed away long time before. But still I like to use ( or I have no other way because some old software work only on XP). Most of the anti-virus and malware protection ...
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Requesting Advice On Preventing Ransomware (also very odd text in my win.ini cfg)
I had just recently prevented a ransomware attack and am still looking for malware as I am curious. I had looked in my win.ini file this morning and found some odd text that even Google Translate ...
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Is it possible to remove BitLocker functionality from Windows?
Is there any way to remove BitLocker functionality from Windows?
BitLocker has recently been used by ransomware to lock a friend's drive. He is now supposed to pay bitcoin to some hackers to get the ...
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Randomly Named Files appearing in Hidden folders (virus?)
I have random hidden folders containing files with randomly generated file names I haven't created appearing in my Documents Folder (which is synced to OneDrive).
e.g. OneDrive\Documents\2016-11-08 ...
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Is this a ransomware?
I just got this window on my main computer:
Apparently, it's from Windows. I checked, and the process EXE file is the original one (efsui.exe or something like that). However, I don't use EFS (I ...
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How does ransomware work? [closed]
If it's possible to get a full rundown on how ransomware usually works in encrypting files, that would be nice.
I know ransomware encrypts all files with AES-256 for speed, but where does RSA come in?...
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How to remove BUYUNLOCKCODE Ransomware [duplicate]
A ransomware appears to have been circulating for the past few weeks. It encrypts data files and creates a BUYUNLOCKCODE.txt ransom note in all directories where a file was encrypted.
This ...
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