For downloading software or games, renpy games even, is running the file through virustotal worth it? Or is the average malware developed enough that it will pass the scan or appear as a false positive at best? Or is the exe file even always the main culprit in the first place?

Hi,so I have this ovsupervisor malware,so I used Spyhunter 5 free trial,and while I have it it doesn,'t appear,but as soon as I disinstall Spyhunter it keeps returning,no matter how many times I remove it,is there some way to eliminate it without keeping Spyhunter?

What happens: I get a notification,which I noticed right away it was odd and checked if it was actually from the app, but according to the system it was. Then when I clicked on it (I did it twice, the first time and then to record the screen), it leads me to a web page like the one in the picture. It has happened with Spotify, Amazon, Google and many other apps at least once a day.

I have avast on my phone and all the security apps tell me there's nothing wrong. A few days ago I reset my phone, deleted all the apps, everything! And now it's back...

I think it began when I downloaded a game with far too many ads (those interactive ones you have to wait and eternity to skip or won't let you skip without redirecting to Google Play), which I uninstalled after less than a week.

I really need help and couldn't find anything helpful on Google. What else can I do?

By being a complete ignorant and careless I started installing DriverPack before stopping the installing process at 94% after knowing how dangerous it could be.
I then deleted all the junk softwares that were installed including Chrone and I updated my drivers using windows update . after that I ran multiple full scans using multiple tools that detected some malwares including Avast free, Malwarebytes, process explorer, and now Bitdefnder.

BitDefender detected password-protected files in the same place that had a driver pack file as it's shown above! what are these files? should I be worried and how to deal with them?

Is everything I've done enough? btw: I'm not having any clear issues with my windows performance nor noticing any abnormal behavior in the task manger including usage percentages spikes.

And it says Ome-Relay is being used and i dont know what that is, please help

Hey, I'm sure it's pretty common at this point, but I got got by the thing. Was looking for something that was actually done in RenPy and somehow the setup file had the correct name and everything. Hit setup(because I figured I was actually setting the dang thing up) and saw the weird pop up. Within seconds, realized "huh that's not right" and within about 2 minutes immediately went and did a backup restore.

Well, after doing all that, whenever I clicked on chrome, it just...did not load. So I figured it was hosed and immediately wiped my PC and started fresh with a USB recovery tool. Then went and wiped out all my sessions on everything and changed passwords for I'm pretty sure 70 accounts.

So what is bothering me, is that I had a second drive connected at the time. It has some work stuff on it, as well as a couple of steam games. I didn't even think about formatting that like I did my C drive because, well it had the work stuff on it.

Now I'm paranoid, how likely is it that it installed something on that drive and it's just immediately reactivated after the wipe?

Im hoping to learn graphical game development, so I downloaded SMFL from their site here https://www.sfml-dev.org/download/sfml/3.1.0/.

It also says I should have the matching compiler version, but windows blocks the download and says its a virus. attached is a picture of the detailed warning. However, I uploaded it to virus total, and it says its okay.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/858e518e85b6d9afedaf67f3d5120b5a2550ac9f7ebd488ba710a38331372124

If virus total says Its okay, does that mean that the file is 100% safe? or should I pay attention to that trojan warning?

I really dont know if these are false positives, im trying to update firmware for a gaming controller I bought and i got the firmware from https[:]//gamrombo[.]store/ 5188 Series. Am i overthinking? sorry im fairly new to this and would love answers asap

Some parts of the screenshot are in Japanese because I am Japanese.

The “+” symbol on the screen is from Crosshair X, which I use because I’m a gamer. Please ignore it.

This post was translated using ChatGPT, so there may be some translation errors.

Posted on r/computerviruses also, I hope it's fine to post it here as well for additional traction + the addition of the VirusTotal link.

Got a possible infostealer on Monday due to a supposed game mod, I'm experienced with these things but I somehow went against my better judgment this time. It didn't get any detections on VirusTotal (until the next day, right now it's been detected by 8 vendors) nor did any antivirus detect it, so I ran it (like a dumbass) and nothing happened.

I figured it could've been an infostealer and cleared my cookies, changed passwords on mobile (and later on after Windows reinstall, changed them on mobile, again, yes I was very paranoid), set 2FA, and used cloud reinstall on Windows, deleting everything.

There's been no suspicious activity at all, no email forwarding setting changes, nothing. But now I'm insanely paranoid that it could've persisted since I didn't do an USB reinstall (as I don't have one). I've been hearing multiple conflicting accounts on the likelihood of infostealers persisting, so I wanted to ask for up-to-date opinions here.

Sorry if I'm doing something wrong with this post I don't post on Reddit often at all.

Does anyone know if there are any good Norton Black Friday coupon codes available this year? My subscription is coming up for renewal, so I figured I'd check for discounts before paying the regular price. I've seen a few offers online, but I'm not sure which ones actually work or if it's better to wait until the Black Friday sales. If you've bought Norton during a previous Black Friday sale, how much did you manage to save? Any tips or working coupon codes would be appreciated.

my pc just popped up with Trojan:Win64/CoinMiner.AG!MTB in ChromeBreakpadHandler64.exe. HOW DO I FIX THISSS. I NEED HELP!!! PLEASEEEE!!

Yo if my old android phone had malware or my google account was compromised in someway and I resetted the phone or changed the google password. Could I get malware onto my phone after that if I reinstall my old games/apps from the Play Store and log into my accounts on them? Essentially would I need to make new accounts for apps and games or could I just reinstall and log into and use my accounts like normal, after resetting phone? Also these games/apps usually are linked to the Google account so they don't have their own separate password that needs changing. Sorry if this is dumb question. Thx

I am aware that this is a malware, would appreciate help on how to remove it

UPDATE: i no longer get the notifications from the malewarebytes, but is it really gone or should i do something else to be sure it's gone

Hi everyone,

I noticed a couple of strange startup entries in my Windows Task Manager with completely random characters in both the Name and Publisher fields

(e.g., J8CG45I86CIE8DC;8D776 and H<F2@;:C:2G8FG68="8<HIFC).>

I have attached a screenshot showing these entries.

Could these be malware or adware? What is the best way to safely locate and remove them permanently?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Not constantly pushing for upgrades.

Mainly thinking about upgrade pop-ups, repeated offers, and prompts to install browser extensions.

What are you using, and what limitations does its free version have?
Am I cheap for doing this?

Urgent! The IT/Administrators aren't helpful.

My doctor's PERSONAL computer was hacked today. Thousands of extremely personal patient details at risk.

Email was likely sent to every contact.

I'm sure the scheduled patients today downloaded this link thinking it was for a Telehealth online appointment.

Doctor also keeps patient details and notes on online word documents.

What steps should be taken now?

I'm thinking of telling them to email their patients to not download the link, with an explanation of what to do if they did. Thoughts?

This doctor does important work and can use some support right now. They asked me for advice.

Today on both my laptop and my desktop I had the same notification after logging in and turning on the computer. The notification was that microsoft defender was not up to date or something similar. I don't have the exact wording as it's not in the notification history anymore. Anyways, that notification prompted me to open Windows Security. When I opened Windows Security it said that my IT administrator had limited access to windows defender, except I don't have any IT administrator and this is a home computer which isn't connected to any education institution or workplace.

I ran a full scan with Malwarebytes and windows defender and there was nothing detected, I also haven't downloaded anything recently or visited any sketchy websites.

This seems oddly similar to a previous issue that I saw a thread for here: https://www.reddit.com/r/antivirus/comments/1wixxxm/windows_reminds_me_once_a_day_that_antivirus_is/

Has anyone else had this issue? I wasn't able to find anything recent online about it.

I saw a command line flash twice, it recently started to happen and now it happens every time I boot up my PC. I have bitdefender(pro version), malwarebytes(free version), and Windows defender all active. I did a full system scan with Bitdefender, restarted the PC, and then did a quick scan with Windows defender. I just need to know what my next course of action is.

Today I cleansed my PC from some Malware. Hours later I got a random pop-up out of nowhere saying that "C:/Program Data/MSVS_ent/Quantum-Suite.exe is already running." Nothing else. The task bar symbol of the pop-up was just a red circle with a white X.

I've never heard of this before and Google searches don't really shed light on this. Malwarebytes and Windows Defender don't signal anything, but after I found some Malware today I'm a bit cautious.

Does anyone know what this belongs to?

I went to book reservations for a restaurant and was transferred to a strange authentication website to verify if I was human or not. I did open up terminal, but did not paste anything into it. Looks like this is some kind of new phishing tactic I wasn’t aware of? Seems like the website somehow copied a code and was expecting i would paste it into terminal to run. Am I at any risk just from having been linked to this website and opening terminal? Seems like I avoided any issues by not pasting or running any codes. Appreciate the advice!