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I am using windows 8.1 Home Edition. I know virus,spyware and malware definitions are files that are used to identify the malicious or potencially unwanted software. Do I have to update these definitions everyday or once a month?

When I restarted my computer and chrome popped up, a tab called "http://eaes.2track.info/" showed up. When I closed it, it opened a new app with pornography on it. Whenever I opened a tab, a new tab of http://eaes.2track.info/ opened as well. After 2 minutes, it stopped doing it, and I scanned...

I think I have a virus because like my time is showing this View: https://imgur.com/a/exz5tpk and my game is lagging and I am not sure what to do Anti Virus aint picking it up

Ok so here goes. Earlier today I clicked on a download link that was quite peculiar, my windows defender flagged it but I didn’t think it was harmful as Windows defender usually flags anything I download. But I was wrong. Afterwards random pop ups started opening for example CMD, Disk cleaner...

Hi,👋 In the past 24 hrs, I've had 3 viruses on my ultrabook. Windows defender failed to remove the viruses. I used ESET's virus removal tool to remove them successfully , what's the best free antivirus program, what would use the least amount of resources?

I am hoping you can give me guidance and advice. I am running Windows 10 and only have Windows Defender. Recently Windows Defender found some threats, which it said it took care of. The threats were: Trojan:Win32/Vigorf.A Trojan:Win32/Skeeyah.A!MTB Trojan:Win32/Occamy.AA...

Hey guys, I must admit I haven't really been doing much research on the subject, and haven't exactly traced it back to Valorant. But I just need an expert opinion. My friend notified me recently that he did a malware scan and had a bunch of backdoors, trojans and bitcoin miners on his computer...

Downloaded something for a game on a forum (DLL that I injected into my game) and now my pc is acting weird. I ran a malwarebytes scan and deleted everything it detected. I tried opening google chrome to download an antivirus to try to get rid of it but my chrome wouldn’t load any webpages...

Hey everyone, just an update. The lovely people from Bleeping Computer has helped me remove the virus completely and my Task Manager functionality restored. I'm not sure if you can share links to different forums here, but if anyone wants to read up on how how we were able to fix it. Or if you...

Recently I looked into my Task Manager to find two applications called "YourPhone.exe" and some program named "腾讯手游助手" I know its a virus or something so I don't want to touch the two programs at all. What exactly are these things and how do I remove them? I don't want to fiddle with it at all...

I've started having a strange issue on my Gateway PC when I save or open word and excel documents. It's intermittent, so I haven't been able to recreate the sound for anyone else. Basically, when I click on a file to open or click the save icon in my ribbon (Word, Excel 2007) the hard drive will...

For some reason when I open chrome, it opens into a "new tab" but it won't let me alt tab into it or click from the taskbar to open it, I have tried uninstalling chrome and using Microsoft Edge's new chromium browser, it was working perfect for a good two or so days, but now it's doing the same...

So I recently installed a program from a dodgy site and found that a new program called qemu machine control was running on task manager. I realised that this was a malware and removed it by going to regedit and ctrl + f finding and deleting all of its files. I then realised that this didnt do...

My computer has been really really slow and at times I cannot control it at all, cannot CTRL + ALT + DEL, move mouse (it actually disappears), or type. At times I get the error - the sign in process couldn't display security and sign in options. I got McAfee and ran scans, it found no viruses...

cant open anything in Control Panel\System and Security\System such as advanced setting and remote settings im the admin account and i cant do anything with my laptop i know where the problem is and i fix it by making a reg file with this code Windows Registry Editor...

So today i was playing Mount and Blade: Bannerlord, Tablut (boardgame) to be exact. Its from Steam (my brother has the account too) and original. While I was playing my mouse dragged and then clicked the ''Forfeit'' button, then accepted the warning. I tried to prevent it by dragging my mouse to...

Hey! Basically asking what the title says. My girlfriend is worried her new laptop will be infected by my laptop, given I've a virus, when watching a movie using some sort of screen sharing. I told her that is not going to happen since we're not on the same network, but I'm actually not...

I suspected about some virus and checked it with BullGuard security. It found this file I went to the path and opened .dat as a text file and it had random letters in it, nothing intelligible. Is it wrong to open this folder or what kind of Trojan is it, i couldnt find much info about it on the...

Hi all, Last night a friend I thought I could trust when it comes to this stuff, shared a cracked program with me, telling me that it was safe. I scanned it with Malwarebytes Pro and it came back fine. I stupidly downloaded it and immediately realized the installer was doing something shady...

How you doing? I need help finding a good antiviral full face mask (for everyday use), if someone knows if it's effective against the Coronavirus. Will any gas mask do the work? Does it need to have any special features? for example: Regards, Chris

So i wanted to download a torrent for a game from IGG games but my bitdefender anti virus always said that there was a bitcoin miner wanting to start up the process. It blocks it but this warning always keeps coming back when i start up my pc. I tried manually to delete them but it just creates...

Hi, I'm having some trouble with my PC here. Any help is appreciated. I've been having high RAM usage for a week now, and just today I've noticed that Windows Defender is gone. Here, I'll show you. Here is the RAM usage. Note only Chrome is using around 1GB... which is weird? Here is...

Hello everyone, thanks for reading this. Earlier, my PC was working fine, I walked away for a while came back, and when I looked at my screen, a picture I had opened on my desktop from my photos suddenly disappeared as if I exited the file image myself. Then my mouse cursor was lagging, and as...

Hi legends.. my first experiance in BIOS bootable software to much slow in windows 7 OS installation else hiren boot.. i try both pendrive & CD.. its very very dead slow.. its take long time to next step... what can i do?? solution please legends.. System Configuration Intel i3 2GB Ram 500GB HDD

shortcuts appear everywhere on the computer and when i delete them they return , i have avast and it doesnt detect any viruses also the virus causes a blue screen of death when i shut down the pc I tried set up windows but it returned again

Yesterday i have opened a pastebin link i was sent, and once i did it also opened another link that closed itself immediately. I have since then scanned my computer (with an expired demo of an antivirus) and it's all good, but still, if anyone here can verify, is this link safe? <<Link removed...

Hello community Last month i tried to download Mario 64 , but sadly it turned out to be some dangerous virus , i had read every forum and watched every video and downloaded every antivirus or antimalware for this problem but nothing helped me . I tried to delete the virus files manually with...

My idiot cousin installed some shady "Android data recovery" software on my computer and it obviously didn't work and just installed a virus on my computer! The virus pretends to be "Windows10UpdateAssistant". It will come up randomly and say computer needs to restart in 30 minutes. I have...

So i got this wierd keyboard hack that i first thought was just my keyboard acting up but it started typing real words after i should my pc down my hard drive was trashed and i could not boot up anymore i was wondering if anyone else had this virus and are my files and my passwords safe thank you.

The computer is lagging ( Slow by 25%). I replaced everything; RAM, Graphics card, Processor, Processor Fan, Hard disk, SMPS. Even Reformatted it several times, ran mem test 86, Intel Processor Diagnostics etc.. scanned for viruses and malware using premium Softwares. Stopped the unwanted...

I had a Ryzen 5 1600 pc for the last 1.5 years when it gets too unbearable, I open Task Manager, only to find that my CPU usage lowers dramatically from 90% to 3% I've tried all the solutions that I found by googling. I also did a clean install of Windows 10. At first, my CPU usage was at 90%...

At first I thought it was my keybored, but once trying a new bored, and then reinstalling windows, I found it is my second hard drive. When it is unplugged, I do not have the problem. Does anyone know of a program that can recognize when something is using my keybored? I really would love to NOT...

Hello Tom's hardware. Recently, I've arrived at a frustrating issue, that is mostly likely malware, and I cannot get rid of it for the life of me. I've done multitudes of anti malware scans, (malwerebytes, adwcleaner,cc cleaner, etc).. to no avail. It seemed to work before and , found a...

Hello all, I have spent the best part of a week attempting to sort out my current computer problem, but have had limited success and now am reaching out to you for help. As of 1 week ago my computer has been having issues with my CPU randomly, on idle, with an unchanged voltage, skyrocket in...

Hy (before I start I want to tell you that I can't speak English very well. ) My qestion is-can virtual copy of windws be infected by a virus.I mean if my old laptop have viruses and i paste the windows key on other pc,did the viruses infect second computer?

I have recently installed Norton AntiVirus and removed about 6 Trojan viruses from my computer. I'm not sure if it is just coincidence, but afterwards I noticed very unstable and lower frame rates in games (League of Legends). I also observe drop in frame rate on just my desktop in certain...

Over the years, I've had a number of Windows PCs with their attendant mouses. Until very recently, there has been no great problems with getting the mouses to work flawlessly with these devices. I plug them in, the mouse will operate without difficulty. Not so in recent days. PROBLEM: I've...

Everytime I press a key on my keyboard, it presses other keys on its own. Same thing with my Redragon Saturn controller, it presses keys on its own. Tried formatting already for like 3 times, and tried using other keyboards and got the same result. Please help. P8H61-M LX3 PLUS I5-3470

So yes, it is my fault for downloading a virus. But it is deleting my storage space faster and faster every day! No antivirus has detected anything, restore points are turned off, and even uninstalling programs doesn't do anything. A reply as fast as possible would be great considering my time...

So all i do is play games on my pc and im generally super careful on the sites i visit and things i download. Anyway i left my pc on and went out for half hour when i came back it had gone to sleep, without touching the mouse i used the keyboard to wake up the pc and logged back into it, which...