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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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