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Whenever I open google chrome, it starts randomly opening tabs. I'm not sure if this is malware or not. Firefox does not do this, so I'm not sure if a virus has just infected google chrome. It appears to have done nothing to my system (Everything runs fine without problems …

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I foolishly opened an attachment which I believed was legit and it was an executable. What I saw happen was as if the computer rebooted and when it tried to come up there was only a message that says something like: Nt won't start due to not enough low memory...you …

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Hi! Its been a while since i've been here but this place was always good to me before. Well my computer was really slow and 100% usage, i also noticed mysearchdial popup through firefox and i thought it was like an addon so i actually used that it silly me …

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Hello all, I cannot tell you when this started, as I do not use this machine too often, it is my laptop at home, and it is not used by anyone but me. I am thinking it is a viru/spyware or similar, but I am not sure about that either. …

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hey, my windows vista laptop keeps shutting down i ran trend micro hijack and this is the log Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 10:52:14 AM, on 6/11/2010 Platform: Windows Vista ) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 () Boot mode: Normal R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = [url]http://ie.redirect.hp.com/svs/rdr?TYPE=3&tp=iehome&locale=EN_US&c=73&bd=Pavilion&pf=laptop[/url] R0 …

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It's an Acer Aspire 5610. Lovely machine. Until now, had it a few months no problems. Logged in today around 5pm, and it says "USB device malfunctioned".. the only usb device i had was my mouse, which i've been using since i bought it. So that struck me as odd. …

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So for the last week I've been fighting some virus or malware that has compromised my email. It's sending phishing links to every email address in my cache and I'm also seeing unauthorized FaceBook posts. I'm on Windows 7 using Outlook 2013 with an IMAP aol.com email. I start seeing …

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Cause Maybe 90% of Dani Web comminity probably hates those annoying bots that lead to you sites to get your credit card info, says add me on this social networking website, add me on Facebook, saying text me so I can send you photos. I was thinking if it was …

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Other half's laptop just trying to clean it up a bit as very slow. Do these logs look okay? Have deleted all the stuff flagged up in the malware scans but they just seemed to be some social search engine rubbish. Any pointers appreciated in advance, Mike

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I am having issues with bookmarks directing to other webites. I can save bookmarks but when I click them later it goes to another website like http://www.adcash.com/script/pop_packcpm.php?k=5223ae7e0c776178106.541145&h=59ebbf60230047531bf2e60d5ae2390545fce553&id=0&ban=178106&r=136690&ref=h&data=&subid= I have windows 8 and am using Firefox which says it is up to date. How do I get rid of the virus? …

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i play games that need java to run the games yesterday they all worked fine today none of them work my wife used the computer while i was asleep last night and she gets alot of viruses on the computer sometimes idk how but thats not my problem atm i …

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I'm just curios. Lets a say a person downloaded a trojan by mistake and the trojan gives a attacker commands and control to control the PC. If that happens a user can unplug the PC and pull out the hard drive to connect it to another desktop and format the …

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Today is another of those 'Hallmark' IT security days; in the case of Tuesday the 11th of February 2014 that means 'Safer Internet Day'. I'm not going to start yet another rant about the pointlessness of this, and why every day should be Safer Internet Day. If you want to …

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Hey guys.. I had some good help last time but now here is whats happenieng As soon as I turn the computer on, the Windows explorer keeps closing itself, tries to re-open it and then close again. Now I am working with the task manager to connect to internet and …

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Spambot has taken hold of my computer and is sending out emails to my clients, friends and family. If someone could help me get this off of my computer, I would appreciate it. I do need the information in laymen's terms, I'm so not IT (but I learn quickly).

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Hi! I'm usually on Firefox, windows 7 64 bit, fujitsu lifebook, run adblocker on FF and I get these weird tabs that just open right in front of my eyes sometimes that say "hope", "patience" etc. and have a kind of colored border, nothing on the tab, just the tab …

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I scanned my system with Malwarebytes today and located the directories of several viruses. I used NotePad++ to open the executable files and deleted all the code written therein and saved the change to the virus. I proceeded to delete the viruses with Malwarebytes; but, I wondered, had I left …

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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.

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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.

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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?

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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When a system is spread with viruses. . . what the virus first attack in system ?. . system files ? or data stored in hard disk etc ?

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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 …

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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!

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**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 …

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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 …

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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

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Hi All Is there any SIMPLE way to remove Virtumonde from my PC**

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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

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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"

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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!!!

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I'm getting Recycler virus in every drive How to delete it or remove from my computer?

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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 …

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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 …

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