Information Security Forum

My van was built 15 years ago by Mazda in Japan as a multi-purpose 'people carrier' vehicle with the unlikely name of a Bongo. It has survived the years well, and I have now converted it into a camper van. Another 15 year old that travelled across the globe has …

The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has said that it has dealt a "major blow to dark web markets." In a [statement](http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/news-listings/483-international-law-enforcement-deals-major-blow-to-dark-web-markets) issued on the 7th November the NCA says that a coordinated operation between law enforcement agencies in Europe and the US has "targeted market places for illegal commodities …

The news that JPMorgan Chase & Co, which is the largest of the US banks with a reach that extends to half of all American households, has been breached will surprise nobody. At least not in the sense that this is old news, with a disclosure of the event happening …

Although it took eBay itself an absolute age to disclose that a serious breach had taken place, and then [completely screwed up the process of ensuring users change their passwords](http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/viruses-spyware-and-other-nasties/news/479152/more-ebay-security-stupidity-exposed), this should come as no real surprise. Happygeeks' Law states: the larger the corporate, the longer it takes to admit …

I'm aware that Adobe plays a big part in a virus how do you get rid of it? I deleted all the past issues on the Adobe volumes input but it doesn't seem to help .

*Story happens in imaginary universe, but I'm using current time "relativation".* vmWare Player type of application (but for free). I consider adding it to Open Source because everybody is saying how great it is and how fast bugs can be fixed. There's couple stories to be told: **Side of Manager** …

Hi, every. Im new around here. I just read about this article today http://www.btignitesolutions.com/how-to-remove-fake-java-download-infected-on-your-pc-from-javsoftware-com/ and it got me thinking that why would some fellows still choose to download some updates or plugins or video player from some websites of strange names? isn't that too obvious a lie?

Adobe Flash users have been under attack from cybercriminals again, this time courtesy of [a zero day exploit kit by the name of Angler](http://malware.dontneedcoffee.com/2015/01/unpatched-vulnerability-0day-in-flash.html). The exploit kit has been readily available on the dark market, and hits vulnerabilities to be found in Flash Players up to 15.0.0.223, as well as …

 Good day, I have been experiencing such problems. An error message keeps on reappearing on my PC saying that AVAST has blocked a harmful website(I have uploaded a picture of the error message). I ran all my antivirus software and are saying that no threat detected but the …

Good Day One of my pc has been infected by a Ransom:Win32/Crowti.gen!A virus and as a result all the files are are not accessible they appear as encrypted and the file extensions automatically default to .AAA whether be it a txt, ppt, xls, docx or pdf file. **Is there a …

How Can We Check Is our site has virus or not. Firstly our site will be slow down automatically if it is attacked by virus or some other activities also may showing that your site has been attacked by a virus. so spamy links showing in your site so its …

A couple of decades ago, in another life, I wrote a little script which would capture keystrokes and then store that data within the 'white space' of an image file. It was pretty crude, but it was also twenty years ago and to be honest nobody was really looking for …

Hello, My computer has been slow and having problems for the last week or so. A message popped up the other day that my son said something about my internet provider found a threat or something weird. He closed out of the internet quickly, so I never saw it, but …

I got infected right after a Java and Adobe update on my Windows7 machine. folder \jnihmpibahpjjmcodbopcpdaelkbpjnc is most likely a random generated folder. Note on malware **PriceLess** (pops up as Chrome extension, highlights strings for ads): PriceLess is in folders: C:\Users\HomeGroupUser$\AppData\Local\Chromatic Browser\User Data\Default\Extensions\jnihmpibahpjjmcodbopcpdaelkbpjnc\5.2 C:\Users\HomeGroupUser$\AppData\Local\Comodo\Dragon\User Data\Default\Extensions\jnihmpibahpjjmcodbopcpdaelkbpjnc\5.2 C:\Users\HomeGroupUser$\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\jnihmpibahpjjmcodbopcpdaelkbpjnc\5.2 C:\Users\HomeGroupUser$\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\User Data\Default\Extensions\jnihmpibahpjjmcodbopcpdaelkbpjnc\5.2 …

hi, I was trying to download whatsapp for my pc and lots of rubbish came down instead. I have got rid of most of it but now every time I start IE searching.com comes up. Click on mu home page icon and ok. Also I've tried to uninstall all that …

Please help me how to fix new folder virus? Discreption: this is a virus that duplicates itself automatically...

AS A TITLE< ALSO WITH ANY PROGRAM ALWAYS OPEN HELP MENU OR HELP MENU KEEP POP UP< AND ANY BROSER I USE ALSO APPEARS HELP FORM< ITS VERY ANNOYING>>> YOU KNOW HOW I WRITE THIS>>> BY KEEP PRESS SHIFT AND F1 if NOT PAGE WILL DIRECT TO CHROME HELP PAGE>

Hi i just wanna know if there are way to **decrypt a files that is infected and decrypted by a virus / malware**? all of the files from one of the workstation are encryted as in totaly you cannot open the files.there is a noted in there saying that i …

Hi, hoping someone might be able to help me with a possible infection. A few months ago, I started to notice some mouse lagging whenever I started chrome. I didn't think anything of it at the time because I usually start chrome with 5 tabs and 5 extensions, and figured …

For some strange reason, I can't access the following websites: www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ www.thoroldedition.ca (these are two adject town news sites that I assume use the same server to keep their website running) These websites work on my phone and using another person's computer connected to the same router that I'm currently …

A few days ago, I discovered that I have "**s7.addthis.com**" on my main computer, which I believe is a bad malware. I noticed some odd behaviour in my browser on some web sites. (I mainly use Pale Moon Version 25.3.1 x64). My computer is running Windows Pro SP1 x64. Of …

i belive that my brother found a virus\spyware. i even formated the laptop and continues there :( my problem is: the help window is allways opening. i have problems using the laptop :( ca anyone help me?

To all, It seems that i have this virus, but only seems to have affected my desktop. I am not sure how I picked it up. I did download a bunch of Windows Updates, and rebooted my machine on Friday (4/10), and left for the weekend. I know during the …

MY COMP IS TELLING ME I'M DOING ILLEGAL ACTIVITY

Hi I have been experiencing high CPU usage for the past few days. Upon investigation I found out that the iphlpsvc was constantly running at 25% alongwith gpsvc, together putting the CPU usage to frequently 100%. I ran MBAM and AVAST scans I assume they couldnt find anything to fix …

I fell pray to a nasty malware\trojan that cripped my computer, whereas when I logged onto Windows, whether it was a standard account or an administrator account, all I got was a blank screen, no icons, no desktop. To make matters worse, I was getting help on another forum; supposedly …

Hi , my computer was running slow , acting weird , getting pop ups , etc . I ran an anti spy , malwarebytes , & my virus scan ... Overkill yes but thecomputer is now clean . Problem is I not only lost the viruses / spyware , I …

Hello Community, I have recently been experiencing extream speed decrees in my internet and general laptop use. I try to load eg. this website to post this and it took just under a minute to fully load. Sometimes for somereason my laptop mouse will freeze up, it will let me …

Ive run virus scans etc but its still there and i cant delete it in chromes browser settings. As i press "finish" it pops back up. Help!!

Here she is! Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.5 Scan saved at 6:52:26 PM, on 3/25/2015 Platform: Windows 7 SP1 (WinNT 6.00.3505) MSIE: Internet Explorer v11.0 (11.00.9600.17689) FIREFOX: 33.1.1 (x86 en-US) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Program Files (x86)\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbamgui.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\Extensis\Suitcase Fusion 5\FMCore.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Bluetooth\BTPlayerCtrl.exe C:\Program Files …

G'day guys, My name is Cohen, I used to be an active member here under an old username. I have been out of the game for a while in regards to malware programs to run. I recently got hit with an annoying virus, the securityhelper.dll virus. I have googled it …

Chinese computer manufacturer [Lenovo has admitted](http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish) that it installed an adware component called Superfish on 16 million PCs shipped between September 2014 and February 2015 in order to "help customers potentially discover interesting products while shopping" according to an official statement made by the company. Although there is some argument …

ERRRR ITS REALLY ANNOYING AND I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT HOW DO YOU FIX THIS???

my desktop has that same "danger spyware" background and i can get rid of it! i've tried the display icon thingy in control panel but the delete tab is not an option! please help me!!!!!! i can;t even rite click on my desktop!

I am confuse between antivirus and spyware. please suggest me difference between these.....

I have looked everywhere, I looked through regedit, I can't see anything on control panel, it's not on extensions, I have reset firefox, I recently ran a MalwareBytes scan and you think it would catch this, but I just can't figure it out. It's only on Mozilla it seems but …

[QUOTE=corduroy] I've followed Symantec's removal instructions ([url]http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.colfusion.html[/url]) but there are always at least 5 dlls which Norton (or the other apps I've tried) cannot remove. Also, I always get winsock.scr and dxsetu.exe errors at startup, followed by "Exception EInOut Error in module dxsetu.exe at 000056F2 I/O error 32". ope1C3.exe and …

Ok so here's the breakdown... * I have never installed Wajam * I never wanted Wajam * I'm not sure what keeps installing it, my guess so far is there is a background process running that I don't know about that keeps installing Wajam * One clue might be is …

Hi everyone, My computer got hacked into and sent all my Gmail to my mentor and his company. I feel like an idiate. I got my nephew to help me for the problems I had on my side but I've been trying to get my mentor to delete my files …

i downloaded this game called zwinky but now i want to unistall it because i dont want to get a virus. The only problem is that i dont know how to uninstall zwinky... please help!!

Hi I once hosted a website, using wordpress framework but after a month, my webstsite hacked and after digging on my website there is so much scripts added to the file (i did not remember exactly how the scripts, but it was so longgg script). I deleted all that scripts, …

Hello . I have a problem , my laptop ASUS n50vn been compromised . For a good few months, I'm trying to deal with it but none of my treatments do not work . I decided to ask for help . I discovered this at the beginning of this year, …

I believe I got a trojan virus that has caused some damage to my computer which will no longer connect to the internet. I read several threads on here and these are the steps I have already taken: 1)I downloaded and ran Marlwarebytes and AVG. (I think it found the …

Ever wondered why the bad guys continue throwing malware in your direction? The obvious answer is the correct one: because they make money from doing it. On Thanksgiving Day, as all others across the year it would seem, they can be thankful for the high profit to be raked in …

There are some "funny" people in the class, playing best crackers/hackers in the world. I've got one enemy in the class (nothing serious, he's having problems with like 4 people or some). He might've used Skype resolver in order to be able to come after what my IP is, and …

So, today is '[World Paper Free Day](http://www.aiim.org/events/paper-free-day)' apparently and I'm not sure whether it's appropriate to buy a card in the circumstances. Joking aside, what I am sure of is that such Hallmark days do provide an opportunity for press releases to be thrown in my general direction. And so …

Hi, Malware Bytes has stopped scanning. I had bought the full professional, and it stopped scanning files on request (from the pop-up menu when you right-click on files). I then realised it wouldn't update, and reinstalls have failed. The other virus software I use is simply Windows Defender. I'm running …