There's this user in Virustotal that's very suspicious/clearly a bad actor: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/user/zombiebunny

They upvote a lot of malicious files and/or leave comments on them saying they're absolutely harmless.

Read this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/it/comments/16o1jf4/comment/ka3zncr/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

And there's also the fact that this isn't just a new account or anything, it's an account that's 11 years old.

Based on this, it's safe to assume that anything they upvote is a virus.

Now, yesterday I was trying to install discord. While it was installing, I uploaded the installer to virustotal, and found out that this user upvoted the file: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/eda6c85b1b6e56507eb5a4cfb38310c20903b7893c435f6fbd869406bda663ab/detection

It also seems like the file is very new, the first submission was just 5 days ago. Should I be worried since I already ran the installer?? I already ran a scan with Malwarebytes and it didn't find anything (also tried to run a Windows Defender offline scan but it didn't want to run, even though the Windows RE is enabled...)

soo yeah, i dont think thats normal any idea on how to "fix" that
i mean 10 million files and its still going on

My friend account sent me this and wondered tf was that

I searched for this website on my mobile and went back immediately

How do i know i got virused or not and what to do???

I ran what was supposed to be a game patch, was a bunch of python files and BS folders looked to make it like a patch. Defender quarantined two things, shown in the screenshots. The folders were still there earlier and a bunch others made from the same date, which I deleted. I also removed the files in quarantine

Battle.net and discord were both hacked 16 hours later, and all info changed. Is there anyone who got their discord back using any method? It looks like they added or changed 2fa to it. I am also wondering if scanning with Malwarebytes and defender offline is enough and changing all passwords, or if I need to reinstall Win11. Running the latest updates after the big security patches. I do not see anything that looks abnormal in Wireshark but could be wrong. I could link the compromised files that include the trojan, if needed.

Any help appreciated

Is this a scam or should I seriously be concerned about this? typing this out makes me feel stupid and that it's likely a scam but it came out of nowhere in the middle of my game, before ads normally pop up. it's not asking me to pay for anything but I'm still worried, sorry if this sounds dumb😓

I ran full scans with Malwarebytes and Webroot (took 6+ hours for each), but neither found anything.

This happens for the first 10-15 minutes after startup. I haven't downloaded any suspicious files, BUT... I did give Codex free rein over my coding environment, so there's that.

What's the best way to fix this without reformatting?

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I didn't know he was hacked, I tried replying to him but he didn't react back, is his account compromised??

Will the virus affect my account now?

Someone plz explain

Some antivirus subscriptions include a VPN, while others offer it as a separate add-on. This is for a research project only; I'm looking at how those bundles compare with choosing separate tools.

What limitations or features would you check before choosing a bundle?

I am sorry for this rather long text. But I found something on Github and tried to install it. Its basically a AI pet sort of. The link to the github project is github[.]com/mochiiwuff/capri-desktop

I did install it and it worked and did the stuff which was in its description. I then uninstalled it, I thought that nothing is wrong and went on. Later that day, I tried to install it again (to show it to a friend of mine), I took the exe out of the trashbin and tried to install it again. It didnt let me install it again in which I realized why. Defenders basically removed it and and blocked it. I than ran an offline scan, it found nothing. But a full scan revealed it again. I removed it and did both an offline and full scan with Defenders and it didn't find anything more.

I didnt notice anything strange, I didnt lose access to my accounts or anything. My pc ran the whole day and I at least think that nothing happend.

So yeah I am not sure if my dumbass did something stupid or its an false alarm. I never installed anything from github prior to this. Would appreciate any help!

So in short, the first install didnt get flagged. After deleting it and later trying to reinstall it again, it got flagged.

So I did a Microsoft Windows Defender antivirus' default offline scan, and it initially told me that preliminary scans possibly detected malware. After my computer restarted, I found this in my protection history. Is it a genuine malware?

I installed Bitdefender (free version) a couple days ago and ran a full system scan, and it showed that everything was safe. Ive also done a few Full Scans using the default Microsoft defender and it didnt detect anything like this either...

I had an infostealer a month ago on my pc presumably from some shady game downloads, reinstalled windows 10 from a usb from a different PC, completely wiped all my disk and partitions and reinstalled everything and then changed passwords.

Fresh PC has been good so far but recently some of my application windows, mostly firefox but occasionally steam, will flicker for a brief moment, not be closed and reopened, or a new window or cmd line being created, but like only the borders of the window remain while all content inside the borders just turns off for a moment, like when you hover over an application that's behind your active window, it feels like it doesn't happen when i'm actively using windows but sometime after i tab into them but not immediately but idk if im imagining that.

I've run full scans from windows AV, Emsisoft, and ESET and they have all returned negative but i still feel a lil paranoid. I did download a game from a 3rd party source however the source i used seems trusted in that scene with no other mentions of viruses from other users but its still a risk IK. Any tips to further check if i'm compromised besides another full wipe and better internet safety or am i just being a lil schizo?

It killed Windows defender before it could contain it then deleted the history, Bit defender can't even open it just gets killed over and over again. I got Microsoft Safety Scanner up and running a scan and Malwarebytes but first Malwarebytes run failed to kill it as well. What do I do now in terms of trying more removal tools. I have about 4TB of data that I would hate to loose over this.

Sorry to be back again, but last year I was looking for a new antivirus for my family to use, when we went to cancel Nortons it gave us a fairly steep discount to stay for another year. So trying to save some money we took it at the time. I know a lot can change within a year so I am here to ask again which two of these antivirus' paid versions would be best for us?

We have 3 computers in use and if my father ever gets his laptop out there will be at least 4. So I need enough to at least cover 4 at once. We are getting very tired of all the add-ons, pop ups, etc from Nortons to buy this or that, so we want to move away from it ASAP. We are looking into 1Password for vaults and a family vault set up.

I know I can run Malwarebytes + Windows Defender, would this be enough or would Bitdefender* be the overall best option? I know Bitwarden changed something lately that had people upset, but I did not look fully into it at the time. I think that problem only affected free users? I may be entirely wrong on that!

Any advice would be great! I also am in the US so Kaspersky's is out sadly. I had looked into them a number of years ago as I heard a lot of great things about them just to have it blocked within a few months afterwards.

*Just noticed it was typoed, can't change title though.