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I have inadvertently aquired the above. Whenever is starts up I have managed to stop iyt using taskmanager and seemingly deleted it but it comes back again some hours later. Will restoring to an earlier version of W8 get rid of it or is it more complicated than that? Many …

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I'm just a regular computer users and often use my computer office for personal purposes such as checking my funds in online bank. I want to know how to if my computer is being tapped or not.

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My email address, business logo and picture have been hijacked. I have been getting emails from my own email address with my business logo attached offering me a job. Most recently I recieved an email from a meetup group with my email address from a group that I am not …

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SuperValu has confirmed that is has, indeed, suffered a data breach. The supermarket company [stated](http://www.supervalu.com/security.html) that what it calls a "criminal intrusion into the portion of its computer network that processes payment card transactions for some of its retail food stores, including some of its associated stand-alone liquor stores" may …

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Keep getting this interrupting intermittently but when doing so is very persistent. Have tried ALL suggested methods (Google articles, Adwcleaner, Junk Rem, oval Tool, AVGMalware*bytes*, delete adnxs cookie etc.) and it seems to disappear although the tools don't say they have found anything untoward. I think it is something to …

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Hi guys, I've got a laptop that seems to be heavily infected with an adware/malware Every time I click, an ad pops up and when I open some websites, an ad is at the top of the webpage that is seperated to the website I am on. It has slowed …

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Hello, I downloaded and installed MiPony from Download.com (CNET) and obviously didn't uncheck this program WSE Rocket that was included. It has taken over Chrome and Firefox. I tried to uninstall it from Control Panel and received a message saying: You don't have sufficient access to uninstall WSE Rocket. Please …

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It seems like forever, but actually it was only the end of last year that we were [writing about CryptoLocker](http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/viruses-spyware-and-other-nasties/news/470427/cryptolocker-250k-infections-in-100-days-nets-300000-or-does-it) which had pretty much redefined the ransomware landscape. Now this particular threat market is morphing again with the discovery of onion crypto ransomware. Also known as Critroni, and CTB-Locker for …

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Hi there, I have a big problem and I need help. Yesterday as I sat on my pc a strange program called Win 7 Antivirus Plus 2013 appeared. It says it's an antivirus and shows up the following message: "System hijack! System security threat was detected. Viruses and/or spyware may …

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Actually there are lots of programs installed, and My pc is used by my family. I dont know which software are necessary. I think while installing some program, this ads banner were added... When I open google chrome, internet explorer, firefox, safari (any browser) The ads get pop up above …

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there are many viruses in the web world and my doubt is does viruses affect [web crawling services](http://www.isolvetechnologies.net/web-crawling-services/)

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I honestly don't know what happened, I was online surfing the web. I was excited the new iOS 8 was announced and downloaded the ISPW from the typical site I use. I opened itunes and got weird errors so I tried reinstalling it and got more errors. So I said …

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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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Following on from the news that an eBay password database has been compromised, and universal advice from security experts that users should now change their passwords, one thing has been loud clear: the total lack of that password change requirement from eBay. Sign into eBay and there is nothing to …

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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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