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When I start the Offline scan from the Windows Defender App in Windows 10, as expected, it restarts my system and then only briefly attempts to run Windows Defender Offline but quickly restarts my system again in only 2 – 3 s… Continue reading Windows Defender does not run an Offline scan. Event Viewer reports Event Id 5007 [migrated]
Two days ago, someone gave me their pen drive to copy some songs from. As soon as I inserted the drive into my laptop’s USB interface, Windows Defender immediately warned me that the drive was infected, so I immediately remov… Continue reading Would my USB interface be infected if I attached and immediately detached an infected USB device?
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Help! My home PC has been infected by a virus! What do I do now?
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I h… Continue reading How to remove a very stealthy virus? [duplicate]
Is is safe to backup programming projects (for example websites that where made using HTML/CSS/JS with the help of some frameworks and libraries (Bootstrap, jQuery, etc.), C# projects made with the .NET framework or websites … Continue reading Is it safe to backup programming projects from a possibly infected computer?
on a computer I received an email with a web link inside that shows the following address:
hxxps://myprimeedu.com/certificato/f0uq1-17relk-aW5mb2NlcmJvbmVhbGx1bWluaW9AcGVjLml0-y8ym71-wowuq-2rpvmx/MDY0OTE3NzQ2MDIzMDM=
(EDIT… Continue reading Undetected Trojan: what type of Scheduled task is this?
If a computer has been running with considerably outdated operating systems, web browsers, Java, and Adobe Flash, what is the overall risk from malvertising and other potentially unwanted programs (PUPs)?
Assuming that the m… Continue reading What’s the risk of malvertising and other PUPs on unpatched machines? [on hold]
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What damage can a malicious .iso file cause without explicitly executing it?
An ISO file got downloaded to my desktop. I immediatly tried to delete it, but when I did, I got the error m… Continue reading Can an ISO file harm my computer without being executed by me?
I recently installed a fake anti malware called plumbytes, I hired someone to do a clean install and I am still nervous that the virus persist. Some of the files that the virus imported like shell32.dll said that they were la… Continue reading How to remove plumbytes
How to remove goodcast or goodcaster virus or any info. or procedures to help me to remove it. I think if I left my PC turned on, it will eliminate it
I just went to have a look through some router settings today and found an unknown new entry in the NAT table, forwarding UDP port 1052 to the same port on a host which runs both Windows 7 and Linux. I disabled the rule and h… Continue reading What is this NAT rule forwarding UDP port 1052?