Questions tagged [virus]
A computer virus is a program or piece of code that tends to be malicious and is loaded onto your computer without your knowledge and runs against your wishes.
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What does the bizarre text mean at VirusTotal?
I downloaded Bitcoin Core from here: https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.20.0/bitcoin-0.20.0-win64-setup.exe
I then uploaded it to VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/...
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Can I trust a used motherboard purchased from a seller in China? [duplicate]
The ASUS motherboard in an older PC I own failed. I purchased a replacement from a vendor on eBay, shipped from China (Shenzhen). Only after receiving the motherboard did it occur to me to wonder ...
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Invisible virus [duplicate]
Recently my brother brought a usb from his friends to copy stuff from and ended up infecting my pc in the process.
I tried to solve the problem by installing kaspersky and doing a full scan of my ...
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Is Chrome Browser/ Computer compromised by KMSPico?
I recently installed a new windows key for my friend.
He was using a hack program previously, known as Auto KMS. So after new keys installation, I used Windows defender to remove AutoKMS program. The ...
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Can a .exe file scanned and verified safe by many antivirus hack my personal information?
I recently downloaded a .exe file from a person's github. I scanned the file in virustotal.com and it showed none of the antiviruses detected a virus. When I checked its behaviour, it had access to ...
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Is a virtual machine efficient for isolating viruses from pop-up ads? [duplicate]
To be more clear, I would like to access movie streaming websites which have lots of (pop-up) ads and I’m fearful that I might deal with viruses.
Would VirtualBox help me isolate this type of viruses? ...
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"Life is not easy." Linux virus : what to do next? [duplicate]
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I found out my Linux server was infected.
Symptoms were : 100% CPU usage when idle, slow download speed, iptables rules keeps growing.
After finding the processes, killing it and all the ...
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Can a website keylog you outside a virtual machine
I came across a suspicious website called keylog.me (you can already tell from the name).
I was as curious as heck to find out what it does, so I got on a VM (Fedora Linux which I reinstalled later) ...
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What should I do if I'm receiving Tiktok verification code even I don't use and have deleted the application in my android device?
What should I do if I'm receiving SMS on phone giving in verification code of TikTok app despite I have deleted and no longer use the application in my Android device?
I got an international call ...
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Can I Hook Up A Infected Drive To Another Computer?
I have an old computer that has old games on it and has some kind of virus or such. If I hooked up its drive, would I be able to copy the files over to my laptop, or would even connecting the drive ...
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Can a headphone or earbud (bluetooth or wired) transmit malware between computers? [duplicate]
I have an old computer and I am sure it has trojan or malicious code but after that I bought new one.
The problem is I did not change my old headphone that I used in my old computer and I plugged it ...
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Antivirus constantly detecting temp files as threats [closed]
My antivirus has been constantly detecting threats and It's always temp files. Everyday I open a programme or use/inject a dll and it detects a Gen:Variant.Application.HackTool.180 or Tojan.GenericKD....
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How can I determine if my system was infected?
At the risk of being overly cautious (after a bout of recklessness, due to being groggy from lack of caffeine), I want to be certain that my system is not infected after running an infected file.
I'm ...
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Can I safely run a virus using sandboxie? [duplicate]
I want to test some untrusted software to check them, for this reason, I researched for a good sandbox software and I found Sandboxie I tested few safe application, but I am not sure if I can run ...
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Can BIOS virus/malware be used to steal data?
Since a BIOS isn't connected to the internet, even if your BIOS is infected with a malware (say you used a usb to flash it but with files that wasn't from the official motherboard manufacturer's site)...
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How can your BIOS be infected or hacked and Can a BIOS virus be used to "steal data"? [duplicate]
I know that BIOS can get virus but it's very rare, but it seems to me it's pretty impossible or improbable for a virus to creep into your BIOS via normal computer use.
Let's say I'm using windows 10, ...
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Can a Logitech wireless headphone usb receiver be infected?
Can USB dongles/wireless receivers get a virus from a computer that has been infected? I imagine it’s no more vulnerable than say a usb mouse is?
But since these Logitech usb devices like your mouse ...
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Can a usb drive infect a hard drive without an OS
Specifically, I was trying to install windows 10 on a fresh new ssd, i was trying to use a usb to do it but it turns out I did not create the usb drive correctly, so I’m stuck on the “reboot and ...
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Is it safer to run executable file (not safe, may contain virus) on VBox [duplicate]
I have a host system (Windows 10) with premium antivirus and running a Windows 7 in Virtualbox with no antivirus. I have installed sandboxie and try to run executable files that may contain virus. Is ...
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Screenshots and steganography, can malicious code in image be copied?
If you have an image that has malicious code written into it using steganography would a screenshot of that image have functional malicious code as well? Or does the recapture transform the image data ...
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Router infected; Factory reset not working [closed]
Recently, I was being redirected (occasionally, not every time) by "ilkmawgod.site" (no information on google) to malicious webpages. I scanned my every thing using quick heal, but it didn't find ...
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Can I get a windows virus on macbook via usb transfer?
Suppose I had a file (a pdf file) on an infected windows 10 PC, I use a usb drive to transfer this file from windows 10 to a Macbook.
Can this Macbook then be infected? Or become a carrier that ...
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Can using "Save Image As" on Google Images be dangerous? [duplicate]
The title says it all, I was wondering if some malicious code could be placed in the image file (the formats I am concerned with are JPEG, PNG and WEBP, basically the common formats available when you ...
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How to interpret virustotal, virusscan scan?
I was looking at a popular file sharing app called Zapya and really liked it's functionality.
I scanned the Windows executable ZapyaPC28Lite.exe, on two online virus scanners:
https://virusscan.jotti....
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Google Chrome Unknown Connections In Proxifire [duplicate]
I always using Proxifire in my windows 7 os machine.
This app can show all network traffic through the proxy.
Here is image of my proxifire :
Google chrome is close.
So what are those ...
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Security implications of using VM versus dual boot
I have my main computer and Windows installation that I use to work with (to me) important data. I keep this environment reasonably secure, however, I need a place with loosened restrictions. I ...
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When someone clicks on a link that downloads the virus what makes the virus run?
Say for example a person gets an email with a link. That link turns out to be a download link for a virus and once the user clicks on it the virus is installed on his computer. Sure the virus is on ...
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System Process PID 4 Attempt to connect to many risky IPs using local port 137 [closed]
I noticed in our APT solution that many endpoints in my company initiate connection attempts:
Process initiate: system process PID 4
Remote risky IP 185.94.111.1
remote port: random remote ports
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Why do people warn of putting unknown USBs in your device [duplicate]
People keep saying never put a random USB in your device because it could ruin it with a virus. Hackers are able to program USBs to automatically run a virus when it is put in a device. So I decided ...
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Can opening a blackmail/phishing email on outlook cause issues?
I recently ran some programs on my computer that caused some kind of security breach, I reinstalled windows (after formatting) to fix it.
3 days later I got an email with my old windows password ...
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Can being hacked/cyberattacked once make you more vulnerable to being hacked again?
I recently had a security breach on my PC, I ran a software called thaiphoon burner and DRAM calculator despite my windows warning. Long story short while I do not know if they are directly ...
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Can a virus infected usb stick infect a MacBook by connecting to it?
My PC running on windows 10 was recently infected with a virus/trojan. I inserted a usb to it at some point , and connected it to my MacBook for clean formatting (I was using my MacBook to wipe it in ...
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How to determine if a scanner finding a virus in my email is a false positive?
I have an important email to send. Unfortunately, the recipient's email server rejects it because it found a virus. Note the email has a zipped .exe file attached, the .exe is supposed to download ...
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Can you get virus just by visiting a website in Safari using cache?
A few days ago I was searching for information to do an essay and I opened a page using the "in cache" option on Google. But then I realised that the page was not what I was expecting. My question is ...
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Android 10 downloaded suspicious files without my permission
This is my first question on this forum so please let me know if I need to clarify anything.
My Android 10 Pixel 2 just downloaded 2 files without my permission today, both named something to the ...
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What does "hijack" mean in networking security?
How should I understand the word "hijack" in network security?
In Cloudflare's page about the Mirai botnet, there is a sentence:
The Mirai botnet employed a hundred thousand hijacked IoT devices ...
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What are some of malware-based MITM attacks that can compromise the organization when working remotely?
With the Coronavirus happening, employees use remote access to work remotely from not organizational laptop access to their VDI or remote access machine via company's web portal (e.g. SSL Portal VPN). ...
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Can operating system installation from USB cause reinfection
I'm aware of bootkits and booting a device causes it, so if i'm reinstalling the OS and the stick i'm reinstalling from is compromised will it cause infection during installation itself?
The hard ...
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Can viruses of one ssd transfer to another ssd?
I have 2 ssds both with Windows 10. If I boot the 2nd ssd and start downloading infected files can my primary ssd be infected too?
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How can I determine if a malware sample is morphic? (polymorphic, metamorphic, etc)
I want to do a malware test that specifically uses recent morphic malware samples (polymorphic, metamorphic, etc). There are a couple of good sources I can pull samples from, but I need to know if ...
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Can second internal hard disk cause infection after reinstall?
Lets say I have two internal hard disks, one for the operating system the other for backups. If i make sure to delete the MBR and partition table with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=2048 of ...
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Remove Malware from files? (Except Anti-Virus)
How to remove malware from files?
Files may be images, documents or videos.
Except Anti-Virus are there any other ways available?
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Is it dangerous to pass documents from an old infected laptop to a new one?
My old laptop is possibly infected. But I just want to transfer documents that I have created like Excel or Word files. Is it possible that malware entered into these files making it dangerous to ...
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Can connecting to a remote Windows Server infect via RDP infect my home pc?
I am connecting from my home pc to Windows Server via RDP.
Theoretically speaking, if the remote server is compromised, can it somehow automatically infect my home pc?
No file transfers, only ...
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How to get crypto-mining malware samples? [duplicate]
I am trying to get my hands on some crypto-mining malware samples for my academic research and have tried to access VT and Virusign but both required registration I have emailed them asking for access ...
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Help! Ransomware encrypted my files. What do I do now?
I just discovered that my files have been encrypted by ransomware.
Can I get my files back? How?
Should I pay the ransom?
What should I do so that this never happens again?
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What is the likihood of get hacked or infected using an end-of-life Windows 7? [closed]
How likely is one to get hacked or infected using an end-of-life Windows 7 if you dont upgrade to either Windows 8 or Windows 10 ?
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How to backup files from a infected computer to a USB drive in a safe way?
Send the files by email or upload then in a drive are not a option since my friend's connection is very poor and is a lot of files.
She gave me a USB drive to save her files but I know her computer ...
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How to remove quarantined virus securely?
There is a file found by antivirus program and it was put into the virus' quarantine section (its not a false positive). Now I don't know how to handle this "quarantined" files.
What is the best ...
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Why do viruses that wipe boot sectors exist?
In a moment of desperation and without thinking, I executed an .exe file purporting to be a pirated version of a hard-to-find program, forgetting that I had no real-time antivirus active. A few ...
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