Questions tagged [malware]
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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How can I forbid the installation of WPS office on my company computers?
WPS office has some dark patterns now. When a client sends a file to one of our employees, if they have WPS office on their phone (default on Huawei and Xiaomi phones and nobody ever changes defaults) ...
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comparing between two VM snapshots?
I already know some programs can compare between two snapshots but they only work on my real machine but I want to know how to know the difference between two virtual machine snapshots
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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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Unwanted macOS connection requests
Even though I didn't initiate anything, popups in macOS popped up a few times asking me to allow a connection request from my (?) iPhone which is already paired with my computer. The device name ...
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How could an unscrupulous company benefit from knowing my hard drive serial number?
I have recently run into some malware on my computer that has gathered up my computer's make and hard drive make and serial number, along with probably many other things.
The malware installed itself ...
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How did Symantec get a certificate on my laptop?
I just bought a Dell Inspiron 5559 and I immediately proceeded to switch the hard drive for a fast SSD and install Windows 10 Pro from an ISO downloaded from Microsoft. Since almost everything is ...
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Strange files ntd1l.dll and kern3l32.dll?
on my windows 7 PC i have an EXE file that sometimes crashes.
out of curiosity i took a look at the minidump file created by windows.
i have noticed two suspicious files that got loaded into the ...
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Suspicion of Rogue Bitcoin miner
During a regular Ridnacs check I was clearing space on my SDD, and I've discovered a large bitcoin folder with 8 gigs or more, while I've never had Bitcoin. This is apparently a rogue miner on my ...
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Cuckoo with pfSense
I am trying to set up Cuckoo with pfSense, and it is either not getting the information from the Cuckoo server, or it is not correctly sending the info back to the result server. I am using a LAN ...
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Suspicious NetBios Name Service traffic
A friend of mine recently complained about the very bad performance of the Internet connection over her family's LAN. Apparently the Internet connection worked normal most of the time but certain ...
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Taskhost.exe looking suspicious in Process Explorer
I'm thinking I have a virus on my Windows 8 (x64). I downloaded and opened Process Explorer (Sysinternals) and started analyzing the running processes.
I came across taskhost.exe and saw it did not ...
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Are files without extension dangerous?
I recently run a test with Bitdefender and there were several encrypted files that it could not check.
All of them in were in APO.zip files which were contained in another Zip files.
Some of them were ...
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Mysterious hidden files in C:\Windows -- are they malicious?
A few months ago, I noticed two strange hidden files in C:\Windows. They had seemingly random alphanumeric names, no file extensions, and seemingly random binary content. I didn't think much of it at ...
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How to find who — or what — exactly opened ad page?
Recently I noticed that sometimes in my Chrome somewhat opens new tabs with ads. It comes with a random interval (0-1-2-3 times in a day). It comes if I'm browsing or wathcing a video on youtube in ...
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Showing real memory used on Windows 10
I bought a lenovo ideapad 330s laptop. It has 4GB of ram. When I turn on the computer after I bought it, I could play call of dutty black-ops 2. It stopped working then I gave it to the seller to fix ...
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