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I can't seem to be able to remove a rotten adware called keep now.... i can't even find the location of it and I see it on all my browsers. anyone know how to remove this? It shows up on all sites that i go to, including this one...
http://s27.postimg.org/b350970w3/whasd.png Something is connected to my Wi-Fi without my permission. I don't know what/who this is. How do I get rid of? Is it hacker/virus? I should be only one listed.
Apparently it's Data Privacy Day tomorrow (January 28th) which, if you will allow me to quote the [Stay Safe Online](https://www.staysafeonline.org/data-privacy-day/about) website blurb, is an "international effort to empower and educate people to protect their privacy and control their digital footprint". Given the Edward Snowden NSA spying revelations that broke during …
I have a PC with 2 drives. A SSD which has my OS installed and a traditional HDD which has all my files and most of my programs on it. My question is do I have to install my new anti-virus on the OS drive or can if funciton properly …
hello I was wondering if I could be helped. My moms computer has caught the sasser virus isass.exe an invalid parameter was passed by a function or something along those lines at start up of her computer she runs windows xp profesional. I tried booting it into safemode and i …
I start up my mother in laws computer and she has not start menu no icons nothing. I can acess task manager and commpand prompt. She thinks she has gotten a virus where it has hidden everything as when you click create a new task under file you can see …
Hello Community, I was just wondering what this url is "https://fbcdn-photos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/hellocdn.html?v=1" for some reason on start-up my computer will open this url not all the time but occasionally. It doesn't do anything it just gives my a blank page, the HTTPS certificate is in affect so I don't thing it's …
I got a virus that turned off Microsoft Essentials and prevented me from starting it. I tried getting other programs to remove it but i believe that the virus also disabled Microsoft installer. My skype wont start properly along with other programs i use daily taking an extremely long time …
Hi guys, has anyone ever worked with keyloggers? I need a recommendation. I have found a couple of keylogger on Google, but I've never worked with those programs before. Has anyone ever used one of these keyloggers: [http://www.actualspy.com/](http://www.actualspy.com/) [http://www.desktopshark.com/](http://www.desktopshark.com/) [http://signum-soft.com](http://signum-soft.com) Thank you for your help.
good day everyone, my computer hardware are all good. but when i power it on, display only appears up to windows logo only. the next thing happen was black screen though the computer is still running. please help me to solve this problem. thanks...
for some reason when on my computer, internet explorer keeps starting itself up, the only difference it doesn't show up on the hotbar or the applications tab on Task Manager it is only it's process that is started help?
According to Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) security researcher [Keith Jarvis](http://www.secureworks.com/cyber-threat-intelligence/threats/cryptolocker-ransomware/), the CryptoLocker ransomware that has been written about so much of late has infected as many as 250,000 computers during the first 100 days of distribution (staring on the 5th of September, 2013). What's more, Jarvis estimates, based …
US retail giant Target [has confirmed](http://pressroom.target.com/news/target-confirms-unauthorized-access-to-payment-card-data-in-u-s-stores) that hackers gained access to payment card data that could mean 40 million credit and debit card accounts are at risk. An official statement says that the retailer is "aware of unauthorized access to payment card data that may have impacted certain guests making …
Hello all, can someone please help me, a year and a couple hundred Euro later still have my problem. Internet explorer keeps opening by itself - up to a hundred pages, all to the home page. I have had people look at re-formatted the harddrive several times and nothing. Have …
According to a [report](http://www.fireeye.com/resources/pdfs/fireeye-operation-ke3chang.pdf) from researchers at US security outfit FireEye, a number of computers belonging to diplomats attending the G20 summit in Russia three months ago, including at least five European foreign ministries, were successfully targeted by Chinese hackers. FireEye researchers had monitored a server, one of 23, used …
I am not sure where did I pick up this virus, but i do not want it. I have already tryed add or remove programs in my control panel. No luck. It must have something to do with the registry, but I can not able to clean that.The other day …
Hello, I am currently running Windows 8 and am having an issue with Internet Explorer. Even with no programs running, IE constantly opens and tries accessing Outlook.com and hits an error screen from Outlook.com saying the requested page cannot be found. While downloading the virus scanners for the logs, I …
I started up my laptop the other day which is windows xp service pack 2, and when I logged in to windows this cmd.exe black screen thing came up for about a second - not enough time to read what it said?! Then about 3 minutes later the blue screen …
Hey everyone, I've been trying to remove the Dell My Way Search Assistant from my computer. However, whenever I go to the control panel and add/remove programs, I got this error: Error Loading C: PROGRA~1/MyWaySA/SrchAsDe/1.bin/desrcas.dll Someone suggested that I run ccleaner to uninstall it, but I get the same exact …
ok so the OS is windows 7 and here is whats happening. he caught it once and we were able to remove it but we cant do it by the same means this time, anyways heres what its doing.. Taskmanager is dissabled. Desktop is gone, no start bar, NO SAFE …
**Hi, I have some unknown malware on my computer. When browsing online, constant annoying popups and ads come up, my homepage is constantly changed to aol for some reason, and I absolutely can't remove it. I've tried MBAM (latest one included, totally clean), AVAST, AVG, Lavasoft adaware, spybot, etc etc …
When a system is spread with viruses. . . what the virus first attack in system ?. . system files ? or data stored in hard disk etc ?
whenever i open more window in firefox, it gets some accident popups confused me so much. really hate them.but i do not know the causes. pls could anybody here tell me if you once got this problem. many thanks!
Hello people i've been trying to make a halware.... well a halware is a programme that keeps on creating .txt files it keeps on looping, using up like tons of GB... i wanna make a type of halware that atleast takes up 500MB per second.... my bro made it (he …
I got a notice from "Lifelock" that stated Adobe announced last month that some of its customers' usernames and passwords had been stolen. The company says it reset the stolen passwords and notified its customers. Adobe also says the stolen data included credit-card information for some of its customers. That …
I down loaded one of those Anti Maleware removal thingys **It said my PC had over 1000 problems which they could fix if i Bought thier product**Which if any is the best Anti Malware Program????Cheers
hello, can someone help me get rid of a toolbar/ or a virus, i don't know what it is/ it's called Gqs.donedrive I have absoluteley no idea how it got there, it just showed up and now I can't remove this annoying little green leprechaun x.x
My browser home pages keep resetting to a page enaricles.com. This happens on both Google Chrome and IE. I reset them manually, but then when I reboot my PC, they reset again. I'm guessing it is some spyware or adware, but I am too much of a software novice to …
Exploit-based attacks are on the up (1), the majority of IT security professionals aren't sure if they can detect attackers attempting to breach the network (2), and 65% of companies let the tech support department give security training to staff. I would suggest, in order to make some sense of …
Hello folks....it's been awhile but I'm back with a potential nasties issue - my desktop is operating VERY slowly....here's a hijackthis log......can someone take a look and suggest some next steps? Thanks in advance! JD Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 8:38:47 PM, on 7/21/2013 Platform: Windows …
this keeps popping up in a separate tabe in Google Chrome. Yesterday, it had a cartoon picture of a curvaceous woman with brown skin and blond hair whose teeth were being extracted with a pliers. Underneath the pliers was the caption: "Belief"
Every time I open IE, it always shows an extra window running and using alot of resources. I try to end it, and it restarts? I have anti-virus and have ran Malware Bytes. I downloaded Chrome (was going to uninstall and reinstall IE), and it now appears to do the …
Small groups of what are best described as cyber-mercenaries, willing and able to perform surgically precise hit and run hacking operations, are offering their services for hire out of China, Japan and South Korea. That's the conclusion of security researchers at [Kaspersky Lab](http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/) who have been following the progress of …
A Freedom of Information request from staff at the UK offices of the Huffington Post has revealed, according to a BBC report on the story, that more than 300,000 attempts were made to access pornographic websites from the Houses of Parliament during the last 12 months. Of course, just looking …
I'm getting Recycler virus in every drive How to delete it or remove from my computer?
Hi CAn anyone help. I have had several incidents of a virus called pianoman that attacks MS documents and adds an extetion 'pianiomancorupt' on all microsoft office documents. No antivirus or virus tool i have tried is helping at the moment. Please help!!!
Users of online banking services are at risk from a new 'in the wild' Trojan, Hesperbot, which has been discovered by the ESET malware research lab. Researchers have found that infections of users in Turkey are currently most rife, with users in the Czech Republic, Portugal, Thailand and the United …
UK home shopping pioneers Lakeland have sent an email to all customers past and present to warn them that the retailers website has been hacked. What Managing Director Sam Rayner calls a "sophisticated and sustained attack" took place late on Friday 19th July. Measures were taken at the time to …
Hello, A while back, I started noticing my internet would crash once in a while, and sometimes would be extremely slow. (Our plan says we're at 18-25mB/s download speed). I downloaded a program called Networx to monitor the network usage and keep track of everything. I check the data usage …
Everytime I start my computer this comes up: [QUOTE]Lsass.exe - Application Error The instruction at "0x00401082" referenced memory at "0x00000000." The memory could not be "written". Click on OK to terminate the program. Click on CANCEL to debug the program.[/QUOTE] I tried both and for each option, the screen goes …
Security researchers at ESET [have revealed](http://www.welivesecurity.com/2013/05/16/targeted-threat-pakistan-india/) that a prolonged and highly targeted data stealing attack aimed at Pakistan, using fake PDF documents, appears to have originated in India. Using a code signing certificate (issued to what looks like a legitimate company 'Technical and Commercial Consulting Pvt. Ltd') to sign malicious …
Hi, I have some hijacking virus that I can't get rid of. I've tried Malwarebytes, tdsskiller, Skybot, AdAware and Superantispyware, cleaned some things, but it persists. Can anyone help? Below is the hijackthis log. Many thanks for any input. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 9:00:16 PM, …
I have been unable to find help in all usual sources. Admin profile created when PC was purchased gets error msg. "insufficient permissions" for many mundane activities.Admin profiles named CREATOR OWNER, TRUSTED INSTALLER, SYSTEM, ADMINISTRATOR have full control with inherited permissions. Norton, MSFT, pcesupport all acessed remotely & claim these …
Hi. i keep getting an application manager error message. It says: "Application Manager has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Please tell Microsoft about this problem." There are 3 options available - "Debug", "Send Error Report", or "Don't Send" i tried all but …
Back in December 2011, reports were circulating regarding a data breach at one of the big Chinese social networking sites, Tianya.cn that suggested the login credentials of some 40 million users were potentially exposed. Clear text usernames and password combinations were stolen by hackers during the breach, although a Tianya …
New research by [Varonis](http://www.varonis.com/) has revealed that only 25% of those companies questioned were able to answer yes to the question: "Are you able to detect when files containing sensitive data are uploaded to a third party cloud service?" Which left a staggering three-quarters of businesses in the dark about …
If you were asked to paint a verbal picture of the Internet in just five words, would they be porn, drugs, spam, Twitter and zombies? After analyzing an amazing two billion emails a day for three months, that's the image arrived at by one research outfit. [attach]15822[/attach]The latest [URL="http://www.commtouch.com/download/1753"]Internet Threat …
Hi, I've been getting these weird-looking web pages for about a week now. They are on view at: http://foundfootageblog.wordpress.com/ . I'd never seen errors web pages with that kind of graphic on my notebook before 7/13/13. I suspect there are malware on my notebook since those web pages have been …
My Laptop has viruses though there's an ant virus, this is making transfers of files to other devices impossible and my machine performance has changed. What should i do?
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