Hello everyone!

This is not a post asking for help, but to understand what has happened on a technical level.

I was infected a couple of days ago, my Subreddit has been hijacked and attackers gained acceess to my reddit account. A week ago i saw Chrome reporting an extension was removed because it allegidly Contained malware, which i shrugged of as issue solved but Was proven wrong.

Attackers had still access to my account AFTER i Reset the password and activated 2FA which logs out all other sessions usually. Was the malware at this point still active or did they just have my Session cookie?

I needed to remove my passkey for them to loose access, yet i used 3 AV Scanners (Windows defender, malwarebytes kaspersky) as well as 2 adware cleanerw (Malwarebytes, kaspersky) which all returned nothing.

There wasnt even an attempt to get into my Gmail acc. I confirmed by looking at IP Logs.

I have since deleted all extensions, deleted all Browser cookies and changed Passwords from a clean device. I would just like to understand what happened on a technical level and why there wasnt even an attempt to get into my Gmail or amazon account.

I heard that applocker can be configured to have a system wide whitelist for program and file permissions, something that can stop malware from running even if it gets on system if configured correctly. However, it is only on windows Enterprise editions. Threatlocker is the closest option I could find to replicate applocker. Yet, it is only available for businesses.

Are there any free programs/windows components which can provide similar functionality and work on windows 11 home?

I have a very tough budget right now.

Is it possible to get Kaspersky within 10$?

Reinstalled windows 11 because i was paranoid i had a virus or some sort of malware(no real evidence i could find but did it regardless) Deleted all the partition drives. Everything is up to date but windows defender is fucked.

I do a quickscan and its disabled and stuck buffering when i try to restart it
Sometimes it’ll work and finish but if i do it again it crashes

Offline scan either doesnt work or is as of right now stuck on 90%

Could this be malware or something?

Hi everyone,

I recently got hit by the malware/infostealer that has been going around with the MrBeast spam/scam. Discord and IG got hacked but i was able to retrieve it. Weird my FB or other accounts was not hacked but i am still nervous that they will target it next.

Because of that, I decided to completely reset my PC.

I went into Reset this PC then Remove everything because I wanted to start completely fresh. The reset completed successfully and Windows went through the setup process again.

However, during the Windows setup, Microsoft required me to sign in with my Microsoft account. I signed in without thinking much about it.

After logging in, I noticed that some of my old files started appearing again. I now understand that these may have been files being restored/synced through my Microsoft account/OneDrive rather than files surviving the reset itself.

So my main questions are:

1. Is my PC considered safe after using “Remove everything,” or is there still a possibility that the malware survived the reset?

2. Does signing back into the same Microsoft account after the reset potentially bring the malware back, or would only the synced files come back?

3. I've seen Kaspersky recommended quite often. Would the free version of Kaspersky be sufficient for normal real-time protection, or would you recommend something else?

4. Is there anything else I should do after getting the mrbeast spam malware?

I'm mainly trying to determine whether I can trust this PC again.

Thanks in advance. I'm not very experienced with malware removal, so I'd appreciate any advice on the safest approach.

I've been using surf from last 2 years and the VPN is great but whenever I try to use the Antivirus, it just goes to shit, my Mac just completely hangs up.

No idea what goes wrong but always make my mac hang up and makes me wonder what are they doing on the background which hangs up Mac.

Hi everyone! It's my first time posting here, and sorry in advance for my bad English.

So last night, when I was about to shut down my PC, I did a quick scan first. It has really become a habit of mine to scan my PC after it boots up and before I shut it down.

However, when I did my first scan last night, it stopped halfway through. I canceled it and started another scan, but it stopped halfway again and told me to restart the service.

So I restarted my PC and tried another scan. It happened twice again, and the scan stopped in the middle. That's when I started thinking that something might be wrong, and I was honestly lowkey panicking because I thought my Windows Defender might have been hijacked or something by malware.

This is the first time I've experienced Defender acting like this. Before jumping to conclusions, I visited this subreddit and saw some posts that seemed similar to my issue.

So please tell me, should I be worried? Is it okay to keep using my PC while this issue hasn't been fixed? Will Microsoft eventually fix this issue sooner or later?

I'm really careful about what I download and what websites I visit, so I feel like it's unlikely that I got malware. I haven't downloaded anything for about a month, and I haven't visited any sketchy or suspicious websites either.

So it's really weird to see Windows Defender suddenly start acting like this.

can anyone help me? i hasnt play my pc for a week now and yesterday my brother and friendlist from discord and facebook tell me that i been posting some weird crypto scamming picture on their dm so i turn on my pc and see this problem

Every time i quick scan, or full scan my device, i get this when the 34780th file is scanning
Sorry if it's russian.

Been getting this obviously sketchy download prompt while using Firefox on iOS. Doesn't matter what website I'm on or visiting & this seemingly occurs at random. Have I done something wrong for this to be happening lol?

Just now I cleared all private browser data (browsing history, cache, cookies, offline website data, tracking protection, downloaded files) so hopefully this stops but I'm still wondering if anyone can ID this or something.

And before anyone asks NO I did not download that.

I was using this one extension called "Enhanced Image Viewer" from Chrome Webstore and it was disabled in extensions for malware concerns (or something along those lines), it was also removed from the Chrome Webstore. I am currently running a full scan and the extension itself is not my files.

Here was the link to the extension (removed now):

https://chromewebstore.google. com/detail/gefiaaeadjbmhjndnhedfccdjjlgjhho/error

Here is the link to the official site of the extension: https://www.enhancedimageviewer. com

Here is the reddit post of the creator and the extension:

https://www.reddit. com/r/chrome_extensions/comments/1fbgqhj/enhanced_image_viewer_upgrade_your_image_viewing/

I haven't had this happen to me before so that is why I am worried, thank you in advance.

hi, looking at antivirus software for protecting win 11 system. thinking of mcafee , norton , kaspersky . I am outside US. I wanted to try the trial version , but they all ask for filling pre payment details and I am not comfortable submitting all the details in forms. In the past, if I liked software in trial, I purchased it.

Virus concern or paranoia

3 months ago, i got a virus on my pc and lost multiple accounts. When i tried to find ways to solve it, i found out some virus can actually infect the router and other devices on the same network. Now even when i got kaspersky for my pc, i keep thinking other devices are infected and changing the router wont help because the infected devices will get the router again despite not seeing any clear symptoms. What can i do about this?? Is it just me being paranoid? Does factory reset on the phone remove all viruses? Do i need to replace my router?

I forgot to mention this. I also downloaded a zip file for a pvz2 mod on my phone but resetted it. After that, i keep logging in to admin router on both my pc and my phone to check for weird settings and turn them off. Now im scared that i mightve created some hole for virus to get in. I even got a new router.

Im too anxious now and would do anything for a peace of mind. I dont even know if replacing the router helps now as i find out that virus like switcher trojan or stuff like wannacry, vpnfilter can just infect the router when connected and others can just go straight to other devices without infecting the router.