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hello guts, i got a serious adware on my system it causes popups on my google chrome like getstreamall, pdfpros,latestsocial,installpdf maker paidonlinesites, the virus is also blocking access to all antivirus sites and creating unknown programs at windows startup, i have tried...

When I start my laptop after the Press F2 to enter Setup screen it beeps without showing anything. After shutting it and restarting 3-4 times Windows starts and displays ++++++++++++ in all text boxes. I scanned with anti-virus but nothing was found. What could be the cause?

Hello, I bought an HDD for backups, but it's an internal drove. So now I wondered how safe that actually is. I can bring it offline, is that enough to prevent programs from fiddling with my back-ups? Or can something bring it offline without me knowing? Thanks in advance, Silas

Hello, some guy sent me a txt file and I am getting kinda paranoid that it might contain a virus. I did some research in the web and figured out that txt files usually cannot contain viruses. Nevertheless I just wanted to get sure. I even changed the Windows settings to see the file endings...

I'm getting this windows pop up and it's really annoying. Heres the link of what it looks like: View: https://imgur.com/Viir9B1

I always assume the worst of any website outside the mainstream that has video content. Sites like couchtuner and others have lots of ads, but is playing the video itself safe? Or can clicking play pose a risk by itself?

A few days ago while i was away from my computer, a program opened up (a windows terminal) that started deleting all my files on my computer... when i got to my computer it was to late, everything was gone. The only stuff that was left was the few programs i had left open on my computer, and the...

I am using Windows 10. Suddenly all the maximized windows closes, double click opens properties. Not able to type anything. If I press alt+f4 repeatedly (3 to 4 times), everything works fine. Again in few seconds the same behavior repeats. Any thoughts?

So I was browsing my registry and came across "Chromium" in HKEY_CURRENT_USER, It only had one key with no value in it, I deleted it, after a cleaned up some junk files, rebooted my pc and there it was again, I made hidden files visible searched for chromium but nothing, I had google chrome...

hi , two days ago I got a virus named mail.ru or something like that . I´ve run malwarebytes and adwcleaner ,spyboy and ccleaner . virus was cleaned with success , at least all this softwares didin´t find anything more after the cleaning . but I was a bit paranoic so I reeinstalled windows ...

I turned ON my PC today, as I usually do, and I noticed that it was very slow starting up, usually takes about 1 min and now took like 10 min. When it got to the desktop everything that opens automatically (steam, discord etc) was taking too long to load. Then I noticed weird stuff hapenning...

Hello, everyone, so on my friends computer, there's something speaking, like ad or something. It's really similar to narrator voice, but narrator is off. Talking literally random, by not pressing anything. All programs we're closed. Any ideas how to fix it? No viruses found. Thinking about...

My kaspersky detected there is(are) rootkit in my computer, but it can not be removed. I researched, seems this virus are dangerous and really hard to remove. So what can you do to remove it, my anti-virus say it cannot be removed and allow by me; I think it mean it hide inside of one software...

So here's the whole story. I was trying to repair this laptop i.e. Lenovo B560. It had lagging issues. The way it was lagging, I was pretty sure it was cause of tons of viruses in it. So I started installing a fresh windows on it. And after that, when I was about to install the antivirus, I...

I downloaded a file from the internet that said it had an ISO file for the game I wanted but when I mounted the ISO as a virtual drive using cyber link the program did open a setup window but while I was reading through it an other window/page flashed in the background and I was curious about...

Hi, for the last few days, I've been having an issue that's been affecting multiple programs, for the most part making them not respond or crash on start. The programs in question are: Paint Tool .SAI Blender MalwareBytes Radeon Settings: Host Application Adobe CC Programs (AE, PS) I've tried...

I have a 2 GPU set up with one EVGA GEFORCE GTX 1060 SSC and an MSI GTX 1070 Ti. My goal is to run my games only off of the 1070 Ti and everything else with the 1060. This seems to be working, but when I set the Global Settings to use the 1060 as the CUDA-GPUs setting and click "apply," I am...

Everything was working just fine today until the computer randomly freezed. The mouse wasn't working and the clock stopped.The only way to get it back is by pressing the power button for a few seconds to close the pc and then turn it back on again. After I did that the pc worked nor ally for 2-3...

For example, if there is a BIOS virus in my computer, what components of the computer would it have run through before it reached the BIOS (e.g. CPU, modem, RAM, etc.)?

Hey Guys, Thanks in advance for any helpful info! I'm fairly new to IT and even more so with windows pc's, if any of this seems like stuff I should just go and learn I completely understand but thought I would see if you knowledgeable people could throw your 2cts in. So I have the task of...

In the last few days my PC is totally unusable, I got some kind of virus on my PC which deleted my Antivirus, disabled Windows Defender, disabled Windows update, every time when I turn on my computer it probably starts to mine bitcoin because my GPU is much louder and it's usage is over 50%. I...

Hi everyone. I have an issue with the internet access on my windows 10 machine that I have been unble to solve for several days. My computer recently got infected with a virus. I formatted my SSD with the OS on it and re-installed Windows 10 Home. Since doing this I have been unable to use the...

Hi everyone! My CPU usage is at 100% and when I open the task manager it near instantly drops to around 10-15%. I''ve had this for a while now, actually. It was just today when I decided to check it out online and found out multiple posts saying it's some kind of virus. one of the posts said...

I was talking to a creepy dude a few days ago and he told me some weird things about my computer that make me feel uncomfortable so I didn't talk to him ever since, but I am fearing if this guy could be attacking my pc. Please help me so I can know how to deal with this situation. Programs I...

About a week ago I learned my "-" key was having issues. It seemed like it was just not responding. I was worried I might have a failing key, but then it started to affect my "left Ctrl" key, then my "5" key, now my "6" key and "Numpad 6" key. They all just seem to turn off then back on, and all...

Please help me i can't find a solution it's suicidal 😭 😭 note my desktop is running on windows 7(i don't use it much and it has not been updated since ages) I switched on my desktop after 5-6 months and found that my system was attacked by ransomware virus most of my files pictures documents...

I have randomly been getting this problem where my computer is restarting right when I start any game, disabling me from playing any games. I know it isn't my PSU, or overheating. One of the times my computer reset, it sent a report that it was a win32trojan virus... so I am guessing that's what...

Somehow my computer seems to have gotten a powerful virus and I have tried every damn thing I can to reset the computer and reinstall windows and just have a fresh wipe. Nothing has worked it keeps getting blocked saying can’t run this program or it will just kill the process. Any ideas on how...

So i've had this virus on my computer for 4 days now i tried to do alot to get rid of it and i dont think its working because it keeps comming back i need help please.

Hello, I can't find the location of this file in my disk and I think it's hidden on purpose. Today I started up my PC and I had some kind of ''LiveUpdate.exe'' asking me for permission to open. I declined and checked the startup settings in Task Manager and found out that there is a blank...

I posted a thread yesterday but it's gone not sure why it was deleted. If I posted in the wrong sub, sorry. The story is, my PC has been saying to free up space for I think a couple of weeks but given that I had installed a game not too long ago, I figured it was that. Fast forward to few days...