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Every single day my PC loads something at 1:59:00. I noticed because of my night shift sleep cycle I am usually awake at this time. When I play a videogame it minimizes out of nowhere. If I am watching a show it will end the fullscreen and make my taskbar visible. I am a rookie when it comes to...

Lately, my computer has been acting strangely. I have already made a post about my mouse being broken (which was swiftly fixed thanks to these forums), google has added a guest user and signed me out of my account, and now won't even work, search bar on taskbar disappearing and my computer has...

So I have this Trojan and I can’t seem to get rid of it. I’ve got about 80 hours in this. It hijacks all your drives It jumps to your installed devices It hijacks your usb and basically anything you plug into the computer It is using <Lanman Work Station> it communicates with a C2 server...

Hi, I actually had a malware that was redirecting me always to yahoo on google chrome. My browser was telling me that my google account was "Managed by my organization" but i have no organisation and its a personal computer and google account. In chrome://policy, there was a rule called...

I've never used this site so I don't even know if I'm posting this in the right spot. Also, I don't know anything about this stuff so please bare with me. I have a Macbook Air running MacOS Big Sur 11.4. I use Google Chrome as my default browser and I noticed that it kept switching to Yahoo...

Hi Everyone, I am new to this forum so please excuse me for any mistakes I make, I am new to cyber security, I received a suspicious file via a social media site, I uploaded the file to Virus Total and I need some one to have a look at the Graph generated by virus total and tell me exactly what...

Have I got malware or was this event caused by a disk check gone wrong? Toshiba Satellite L770 laptop - 64 bit Windows 7 Home Kaspersky anti-virus Using Mozilla exclusively as IB Noticed that SolidWorks was taking 10 minutes to open Disk clean up Defrag Loading MBAM and scanned - found PUP...

So, around early yesterday I noticed that my Google Chrome has been infected with one of those scumbag browser hijackers, one by the innocent name of "YourTV". What the program does is forcibly changes my homepage and default search engine to some broken, ad-spammed version of Google, prevents...

I am working on botnet detection and IDS.I need to understand the control flow of zeus botnet by running it in Visual studio . I am successfully able to build zeus in visual studio.Next ,I set the breakpoints in source code and press start running the project button in visual studio .Next, i...

Hi all, I run Microsoft Security Essentials, paired with Malware Antibytes Pro (Malware, not AV). Once a week or more, I run AdwCleaner, and CCleaner. I just uninstalled Qbittorent for First-steps and have DDS and Hijackthis logs. My CPU will run fine for several hours, then start freezing...

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (MBAM) is a powerful anti-malware application that assists Windows computers in removing and protecting against numerous threats including, but not limited to, worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, spyware, etc.. Used by our security team here at Tech Support Forum...

It’s no surprise that in a world of internet connected technology there are people out there looking to steal or hack your devices. Since the beginning of the internet there have been millions of different types of malware created, just waiting to infect your PC. As our world moves into the...

One of the most well-known ways of protecting your computer from viruses and hackers is to use an anti-virus program. These programs scan your computer for malicious software and alert you to their presence - they will usually attempt to remove the virus for you also or, alternatively, place the...

Malware is rising to the next level it seems, with malware allegedly coming in on Windows computers preinstalled. Microsoft received permission of the court a few days ago to pursue a botnet that stems from illegal copies of Windows that contain the malware automatically that was installed on...

Recently Apple and Google have removed a malicious app from their stores. The new malware app is called “Find and Call” and was flagged by Kaspersky to be a type of malware. The app was available on Google Play since May 21st and Apple’s app Store since June 13th. When uploading a new...

Today marks the day that the infamous DNSChanger virus is finally shut down by the FBI in the USA. This could cause anyone that was still infected to lose their internet connection. DNSChanger came about in early 2007. It was a simple piece of malware that changes your computer's DNS settings...