virus

As I said in the title, I might have a possible virus on my computer, and it’s a sneaky virus and proving hard to find so i’v come to the conclusion of completely wiping my computer as things have gotten a little bit messy on it anyway over the several years I’ve had it. OS; WD 250gb ssd main...

Hello! I recently visited the "y2mate.mobi" website (Russian version) and after clicking on red button "Download" (or something like that) I got a "USB connection" sound. Also in some time I could hear a disconnection sound. It happens rarely, but it happens. I have only USB from my mouse. Can...

I have ASRock Z270 Pro 4 motherboard (Intel). Got a used HDD drive recently, today plugged it in, and tried to enter F11 Boot selection menu. Before, it was all ok, but now, it appears glitched (pic 1), until you click enter on single entry, which is there even if nothing is connected to...

Hi Ill try t be berife .. Im running windows 10.. and i downlaoded a couple files... and after placing one of them on my desktop.. things started getting very weird.. i was not able to install or launch anything including task manager and everytime getting error message ".... ... the...

Hi everyone. I was using my computer like normal and went to use the search engine and it kept searching with yahoo instead of google. I went into the chrome settings and made sure it was set to google which it was. I then found an extension called RosaCanina in my Chrome and Microsoft Edge. The...

Hi, guys! I hope everything is well with you all! Today I was gaming when a CMD window pop up, minimizing the game screen. This is the screenshot I managed to take (the window wouldn't close, and I had to restart the PC) Later, I discovered that many people had the same problem, after an...

I visited a website called processchecker.com earlier which seemed a bit dodge to me, I didn't download anything but I am a bit of a noob and am worrying whether just by visiting a website it can cause a virus or malware on your system? Thanks! I have Chrome up to date and have anti-virus installed.

Hello! I have reached a plateau in troubleshooting these issues. A few weeks ago after a Windows update I have been unsuccessful at updating or reinstalling my ASRock 6700xt Phantom Graphics card. Keep getting error that windows has taken over the driver. Well then I discovered that external...

So I just finished a 20 hour backup and wipe of my C: Drive to fix contant BSOD and Hard Drive repair errors I was getting for months now. Since 4/10 whenever I would Shut Down or Restart my PC I would be given these errors. Just finished reinstalling Windows so now I'm at a clean slate. Gave...

Symptoms: (all of these happen only when leaving my computer on overnight, all of them happen after I've purchased a game that I think was a bootleg copy or pirated - installation app gave it away) I regularly get various errors on my VPN when leaving it on NordVPN asks me to enable...

Hi, I accidently ran a .SCR sent to me via an artstation message. After a about 2 weeks my Steam was compromised and i was aware of my mistake after my items were sold on steam marketplace. Changed my passwords and Malwarebytes picked up a few of the viruses and removed them. Just wondering if...

Hey everyone.... I installed a suspicious program; long story short, I now see this window open and close about every 1-2 minutes, on an ongoing and consistent basis, and I believe it is taking screen shots or also/acting as a keylogger. I scanned with two anti-virus programs and found nothing...

Hi, I was installing a couple of emulators yesterday (xemu and flycast), and I store my emulators in AppData, in an Emulators folder. Anyway, flycast wasn’t showing AppData as a selectable directory for ROMs, so I made AppData visible in the file settings. This was fine initially, but when I...

I recently bought 5TB Western Digital, brand new, no issues, installation went smoothly, mainly used to store movies and TV show, since I have no internet on board (I'm a sailor). I wanted to take some classic old movies from a colleague and once he returned it to me, my HDD was useless. It...

Hello, So today I went on Google chrome, and I first of all noticed that my profile on chrome was completely signed out. I was able to sign back in, however my chrome background picture had disappeared. There was nothing on the home menu apart from my bookmarks and favourites. I checked on the...

Having issues with my PC 😢 I can't seem to pinpoint what the issue is. Sometimes my PC runs perfectly normal then it throws a fit out of nowhere! Please see some points below... Issues Freezing, mouse dragging slow, almost feeling heavy to pull across the screen Black screen flashes. The...

Hey, guys! I hope you are all doing well! I usually try to run anti malware programs every 10 days or so on my computer (being paranoid after my last infection) So, I usually use (in this order, on the entire system): Rkill ADWCleaner Malwarebytes (detect rootkits enabled) Avast None of the...

Hello I assume a mouse like Logitech G302 can hold some data? Since it autoruns software / driver, when you connect it. 1. Can you transfer malicious software to a mouse like Logitech G302, and then use it to infect a computer with malicious software? 2. Can you scan a mouse like Logitech...

It all began a month ago when suddently my instagram account started following random people even though I have a two step verification, so there was no chance of somebody was getting into my account from another device. I just changed password and well, it stopped happening. Few days forward I...

So everytime I open up my pc my CPU is running at 100% usage and it goes back down to just a few percent whenever I open up task manager (so a virus that hides itself is what that is surely). The process causing this is Explorer.exe and I've found that if I can go go to the details of that...

Hello! Im getting thrown to desktop while gaming, or using an app, exactly as the clock reaches 0 AM. It is not crashing or anything, just acts like i alt-tabbed out of everything automatically. My old PCs used to do this all the time for as long as i can remember, this one's running fresh...

Help installing Windows 10 on laptop Hi everyone, A few days ago I caught a virus that created some automatic tasks trough task scheduler. I also downloaded a few program like Malwarebytes, HitmanPro and got rid of it. I wanted to make sure so I went and downloaded ISO of Windows and created a...

I have very important files on my laptop , and I want to keep them safe from viruses and ransomware that can encrypt them and steal them from me. I have several back-ups, but I'm still paranoid. My question, is how to have absolute certainty that my laptop definitely doesn't have viruses? As...

Dear all I have turned off Network adapters in Device Manager The laptop is not connected to a network 1. Can a laptop manufacturer install hardware, software or firmware, that could connect to the wifi, cellular without showing that the laptop has internet? And then use this “hidden”...

Hello everyone I have bought several brand new in-package Kingston USB drives I have turned off Network adapters in Device Manager The computer is not connected to a network 1. Has there been any instances, stories etc., where a Kingston USB drive turned on /activated and used the network...

So I do a full scan with TotalAV. I go to look at quarantine and found that UrbanVPN is considered a threat. I google if UrbanVPN is safe and I couldn't find a single website saying it's not unsafe. Everybody is saying it's safe. So my question is if it's not a threat, then why did TotalAV put...

So, here's the case: My PC has been crashing (blue screen, gathering info and restarting) quite frequently lately, normally on moderate stressful actions like browsing and gaming (things that haven't shown any problems before). The most common issue was the "100% Disk Usage", I disabled a lot...

Hello. I recently built this new PC back in late December. I have been just fine with my speeds until I scanned a virus a couple of days ago, I removed it. I then installed Malwarebytes and did a FULL scan and it found nothing. My CPU and GPU Clock Speeds have been maxing out, my I9-11900k at...

Hi! I recently got a virus that messed up my windows security service. I managed to remove the virus but services.msc still says that the service is blocked, and I cannot access windows defender. What can I do to re-enable the service? I'm using Windows 10 Home. View...

Any weeks ago my nephew come home for vacations and used my PC to play some videogames, he installed many programs and after he left my PC, it stopped working and the disk missed his format. Now every time I turn on my PC I have to format the disk and reinstall windows because every time I...

Hello, I have recently found a virus on my PC and just needed some help figuring out everything. I have reset my PC back to factory multiple times. I have been using Windows 11 since launch as I wanted to see how to performed at the time, it wasn't great as it failed to detect more than 1...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixVUZtVQTMw I just keep getting prompted to "End process". This has only been a problem for about the past 3 weeks now. Its annoying. No idea if its a virus or what, but I'm pretty good at being cautious and secure.

So this has occurred a few times over the last few weeks. Only happens sometimes but does happen and I cant find it with malwarebytes. When it happened just ten minutes ago i instantly did a malwarebytes scan and a few minutes in my PC crashed :// So what happens is when i (not always) past...

So initially every game was running fine Apex legends and valorant both but then suddenly one day PC starting lagging and I checked and find it was bcoz of GPU throttling so opened it and check and thermal paste was try so I just replace it and even replaced thermal pads as old ones were dirty...

I was trying to remove Citrix today from my computer (desktop), and first used the Citrix Receiver desktop clean-up utility, then that didn't' work, so I used the Microsoft Install and Uninstall tool at...

Hi! so i have been attacked by a ransomware due to my stupidity and luckily the encryption lock was only on my drive D, although after reformatting drive D I've seen some files called EXT_GT4.dds.efdc, EXT_Banner.dds.efdc etc. (yes efdc is a virus attack that encrypted my D drive). Even after...

Hey guys, I've recently noticed that one of my friend's computer is having some sort of issue... It has to do with her disk space constantly utilizing 100% for some strange reason. I've been going over all of the running processes on Task Manager and I noticed that her laptop is using 100% of...

I purchased this laptop two days ago abs the seller was quite dodgy with the interaction. I have deleted windows and restarted. When on the account page on fresh start the domain is set to a company which isn’t allowing me to create an account - I have to use offline account to use the laptop...

Hi all, Sorry if this question doesn't fit here but I'd like to ask. I clicked on a website link and it redirected me to sites which on a virustotal check did not give obvious red flags and were generally "safe." The original website seemed to have been moved to another and I don't know if it...

Hey guys, I would like to acess my data, but cant acess the drives. My situation: I set up my RAID 0 with high-water allocation method with 5 drives, 2x2TB and 3x1TB It was all just a normal PC with an unraid Boot Stick. I filled it up with 3,3TB of important files, windows backups etc. but I’m...