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Why can I get a virus or trojan from visiting a website?
I have seen these a lot lately. You click the link, and instant trojan. No need to download or anything.
How is this possible? Is there a way I can scan the links before visiting to make sure I won'...
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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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How can I determine if a file or executable has a keylogger included with it?
I had a program created for me recently and didn't really think about it being executable posing a threat since I pretty much trust the source, but not completely.
I then thought about the fact that ...
user36250
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Detecting damage done by virus
This morning after I went to college, a virus infected my PC without any user interaction at my end. When I came home my computer was completely frozen and infected with lots of trojans. I have not ...
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How I analyzed svchost high CPU utilization problem [closed]
My machine was attacked by a trojan that manifested itself as a service in the netsvcs svchost process. This process can be identified using Process Explorer as 'svchost -k netsvcs'.
The symptoms I ...
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Software with Malicious Intent binded to executable?
I had some software created for me by a coder overseas. I'm a little suspicious since the software is executable. I started thinking about the possibility that they could have binded a key logger to ...
Brandon
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What are the top reasons Macs are much less likely to get viruses/worms/trojans?
I ask in seriousness. Please do not post answers like, "because Windows sucks!"
Why do Macs pretty much never get viruses/worms/trojans, in comparison to Windows? Is one reason the rwx permission ...
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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 ...
user3109
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Accessing rights of worms,viruses,etc
If I create a folder named nul (or con, prn,etc) which are DOS reserved names, I will not be able to edit (or modify or delete) files inside it directly. So my doubt is that, if the PC is infected ...
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How did what appears to be a virus get on my computer? (explanation of situation enclosed)
My system is Windows XP SP3, updated with the latest patches.
The PC is connected to a Cisco 877 ADSL router, which does NAT from the internal network to its single static public IP address. There ...
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Infected, back-doored Windows 7, is it safe to keep it using after Kaspersky Anti-Virus clean up? [duplicate]
So I got this computer from my cousin. As far as I can tell, it has LOTS of back-doors, trojans etc. installed. You can see the installed programs as below w/ lots of activeX:
I fear these backdoors ...
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Trojan au_.exe - how to get rid of it [duplicate]
I installed the popular software 'Synthesia' from its official website. It is a program for piano transcriptions. It has always been safe.
I decided to uninstall it and as soon as I uninstalled it, a ...
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Trojan horse "Generic.15.apnz" impossible to get rid of?
I have a trojan horse infection that lives in memory and seems to be impossible to get rid of. I've tried a few antivirus products (Norton, Windows Essentials and AVG Free) all to no avail and I've ...
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Norton Security Blocking Trojan.Gen.SMH (github.exe)
I've been using GitHub Windows App for several months and now Norton Security is blocking it because it's assuming it's a trojan (Trojan.Gen.SMH to be exact). I removed it from the quarantine but I ...
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Unknown item in my startup (sshnas21.dll)
I just noticed that I have an unknown item in my Startup in msconfig
the command is
rundll32.exe C:\Windows\system32\sshnas21.dll,GetMainWnd
what is this?
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How do I delete files that are locked when no other app can delete them?
So I found out that I had a Trojan on my external hard drive. My anti-virus app killed it, but it has created a bunch of random files on my computer which cannot be deleted. These are image files. ...
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Virus from manufacturer's website? [closed]
What is the appropriate course of action if you believe a manufacturer's driver contains a trojan or virus, beyond just contacting them?
Details
After my computer-savvy girlfriend got her first (...
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Browser displays 'Apache is functioning normally' when I enter 'http://you/' in the location bar
I am on a Mac and when I enter http://you/ in the location bar, it displays 'Apache is functioning normally' no matter which browser (Safari, Firefox, Chrome) I am using.
Is this normal? Or could it ...
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What precautions to take after a trojan Win32/Occamy.C infection
Platform Details: Windows 10, 64 bit.
Infection History. I downloaded this cheat tool for a game. After that, I performed the following sequence of actions:
I extracted the software from the package ...
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Detection and removal of Trojan.Spyeye.AA [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What to do if my computer is infected by a virus or a malware?
I've found myself stuck with a keylogger that my firewall keeps reporting on startup/shutdown as attempting ...
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How to deal with a trojan infection? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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 Chrome ...
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Task manager won't start after nasty virus
Had a nasty virus. Got a trojan through a patch to a game I have played a lot (world of tanks).
The trojan was named Win32: Patched-ZX. Which opened up for several rootkit(according to AV) and 3 worms ...
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How to assert if I'm infected and how to remove [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What to do if my computer is infected by a virus or a malware?
Hi all,
My computer is acting funny lately, some symtoms:
clicking things feels different. Normally I could ...
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Avast keeps showing this virus error
I don't remember entering any "funny" website and this virus warning seems to pop-up at random once every day, anyone know what it is? How can I fix it?
Object: http://mst.my03.com:8080/k.zip | [...
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Router logs show constant unknown port mapping (forwarding)?
Do I have a virus or trojan? Should I be worried? What’s going on here? I’m currently running Debian, and there are records like this for every day since these first records showed up. I ...
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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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How to remove virus/trojan Trojan.VB.wvy.bgkl?
While running anti-virus, my PC has detected the virus Trojan.VB.wvy.bgkl and failed to clean it.
Can anyone please suggest, why the system failed to clean and how it can be removed ?
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Best Way to Get Rid of Ceprolad.A [duplicate]
Well this is embarrassing... I was attempting to download a freeware tool and clicked on the wrong thing so I was blasted with tons of malware. Windows Defender seems to have gotten rid of some of ...
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Unable to surf with Ease due Certificate Requirement or virus
I am trying to surf the internet but for any link which I type or enter, I get the following message :
This Connection is Untrusted
You have asked Firefox to connect securely to accounts.google.com, ...
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Internet Browsers Seem Disabled After Removing Trojans
My apologies if this is the wrong place. I've been looking for a solution to this problem and it seems that this is a website that gives a lot of great technical advice.
This morning I noticed that ...
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