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How can I detect what causes Chrome to open a tab for "http://eaes.2track.info/" each time I search something in the address bar?
Same thing happened to me, apparently the extension "Auto Refresh" is malware. 😔
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How can I detect what causes Chrome to open a tab for "http://eaes.2track.info/" each time I search something in the address bar?
malicious code is in its background.js
You can read about it in this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/gg2nii/auto_refresh_extension_now_malware/fql6uds/
Also these guys have ...
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Suspicious script meddling with /usr/bin/open
/usr/bin/open is a part of MacOS. It's been there since at least MacOS Mojave:
McStudio:~ pg$ ls -l /usr/bin/open
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 105952 Jul 11 2021 /usr/bin/open*
McStudio:~ pg$ /usr/bin/...
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What is this Firefox hidden add-on: "Add-ons Search Detection ([email protected])"?
This is a built-in add-on authored by Mozilla. There is nothing you can or should do about it. It will be enabled automatically the next time you launch Firefox.
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What is this Firefox hidden add-on: "Add-ons Search Detection ([email protected])"?
After browsing the Github repository for it briefly I believe the add-on attempts to detect and report any other add-ons that try to hijack the browsers search engines and redirect those requests to ...
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Why isn't VirusTotal detecting a zip file that contains malware?
Because virus detection software is far from perfect? If you think a bit about it, finding out if a program has any particular (malicious or not) effect is essentially the halting problem, that can ...
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Strange requests from localhost in Apache access logs causing server to crash
So after some searching it turns out this was a wp_vcd malware infection.
I'll add some details of how I cleaned this in case it helps anyone else.
First, I couldn't login to the WP control panel (...
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Virus scanning a compressed file before vs after extracting
Scanning a compressed file can not show that the infected files are included within it because threats are hidden within the layers of the archive.
Extract the file to a folder implementing ...
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Virus scanning a compressed file before vs after extracting
Ultimately, there is no difference.
All of the following is assuming your virus scanner can detect the virus. Either the virus scanner will detect the virus inside the archive, or when the virus is ...
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Spontaneously appearing and disappearing command line windows in Windows 10
One option is to install SysMon and wait until this happens again. Then check the event logs. It will show the full command line of the process and the parent process which started it.
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