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 | I don't usually write about acquisitions and all that financial stuff, but news that PayPal has acquired CyActive caught my eye as apparently this brings the promise of 'bio-inspired predictive security' into the online payments provider threat protection mix. Which made me think, just what the heck is bio-inspired predictive … |
| | G'day guys, My name is Cohen, I used to be an active member here under an old username. I have been out of the game for a while in regards to malware programs to run. I recently got hit with an annoying virus, the securityhelper.dll virus. I have googled it …  |
| | Chinese computer manufacturer [Lenovo has admitted](http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish) that it installed an adware component called Superfish on 16 million PCs shipped between September 2014 and February 2015 in order to "help customers potentially discover interesting products while shopping" according to an official statement made by the company. Although there is some argument …  |
 | gday dont know if this is the right area to post this im building a linux based system pref ubuntu and use it for virtual os use like windows 8 ten etc plus xp get a lot of customers that still use xp i do a lot virus and malware …  |
| | Hi all, I was at a customers site today, and had a real interesting one. He had a browser hijacker/Malware/Virus that had been detected by Avast (or one of the three of four other AV softwares that he had installed and uninstalled in the past weeks). It was presenting annoying …  |
| | An increasing number of my acquaintances seem to be in the habit of buying cheap Android smartphones when in China on business and, increasingly, from online auction sites. More often than not these will be clones of flagship models but without the flagship price tag; however, cheap is not always …  |
| | Google has been quick to blacklist domains implicated, most often unwittingly, in the distribution of what has become known as the SoakSoak malware campaign courtesy of soaksoak.ru being the first domain in the redirection path it used. With 11,000 domains blocked over the weekend, you might be forgiven for thinking … |
 | I must have some adware or malware. Whenever I try to download something my computer tries to download and at the end it says 'virus scan failed'. I tried running in safe mode with networking and still wasn't able to download anything to help me scan for adware. Turned off … |
| | I believe I got a trojan virus that has caused some damage to my computer which will no longer connect to the internet. I read several threads on here and these are the steps I have already taken: 1)I downloaded and ran Marlwarebytes and AVG. (I think it found the … |
| | Ever wondered why the bad guys continue throwing malware in your direction? The obvious answer is the correct one: because they make money from doing it. On Thanksgiving Day, as all others across the year it would seem, they can be thankful for the high profit to be raked in … |
| | Hi I use Firefox as my browser and whenever I enter a search on the "search the web" box I'm diverted momentarily to [url]www.goonsearch.com[/url] then to [url]www.plusnetwork.com[/url] I have tried to eradicate the virus using many tools without success. I have completed all 8 steps in the sticky and included … |
| | Hello - I am working on my son's Asus laptop running win-7. Booting into user mode, it's not running well at all - extremely slow to boot, Chrome runs very slowly - nothing runs well. In safe mode, it's not half bad. When I got this from him last week, … |
 | Hi, Malware Bytes has stopped scanning. I had bought the full professional, and it stopped scanning files on request (from the pop-up menu when you right-click on files). I then realised it wouldn't update, and reinstalls have failed. The other virus software I use is simply Windows Defender. I'm running … |
| | More often than not I'll be writing about the security problems facing Windows XP users, such as when I recently reported how a large number of enterprises are still running XP SP2 machines which will shortly [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story287954.html"]stop being supported by Microsoft[/URL] in terms of security updates, hotfixes and the like. …  |
| | Some interesting [research](http://www.proofpoint.com/threatinsight/posts/phishing-in-europe.php) from security outfit Proofpoint was published this morning which reveals that unsolicited email heading towards users in the UK is three times more likely to contain malicious URLs than that destined for users in the United States, or Germany, or France for that matter. It's not, as … |
| | Goodwill Industries International, a network of 165 community-based agencies in North America, has been breached. This follows a previous announcement of a potential attack back in July. After an extensive forensic investigation lasting a month, Goodwill has now [confirmed](http://www.goodwill.org/press-releases/goodwill-provides-update-on-data-security-issue/) that "a third-party vendor’s systems" were indeed "attacked by malware, enabling … |
 | Hi All, I have two issues that I cannot seem to resolve using Google. 1. My windows account, the only one I have, is the Admin account. However, I cannot save files on my desktop and get prompted that only the admin can save there and that I should contact … |
| | Hardly a week goes by without yet another press release hitting the desk of your technology journalist, or research flag being raised amongst the IT Security profession, that claims Android is insecure. What Android actually is, just like Windows on the desktop in fact, is a big and attractive target; … |
| | Hello: A couple days ago I found an error log on my desktop (hs_err_pid6028.log), something about a fatal java error and a game called minecraft. I am pretty sure I never installed minecraft. That got me worried, so I browsed my java control panel and saw that there is no … |
| | Whenever I open google chrome, it starts randomly opening tabs. I'm not sure if this is malware or not. Firefox does not do this, so I'm not sure if a virus has just infected google chrome. It appears to have done nothing to my system (Everything runs fine without problems …  |
| | When I try to execute/run any programs, Windows XP gives me the Access Denied or file not found message. I can't run any virus utility from it either. when I try to do so, it gives me the same message. This must be a well known malware or a virus …  |
| | Hi! Its been a while since i've been here but this place was always good to me before. Well my computer was really slow and 100% usage, i also noticed mysearchdial popup through firefox and i thought it was like an addon so i actually used that it silly me … |
 | I am having issues with bookmarks directing to other webites. I can save bookmarks but when I click them later it goes to another website like http://www.adcash.com/script/pop_packcpm.php?k=5223ae7e0c776178106.541145&h=59ebbf60230047531bf2e60d5ae2390545fce553&id=0&ban=178106&r=136690&ref=h&data=&subid= I have windows 8 and am using Firefox which says it is up to date. How do I get rid of the virus? … |
| | Hello What methods can I use to detect malicious PHP/Javascript within the pages of my websites in the case they are infected ? |
 | I am on travel and was advised my Win Vista machine had supposedly been infected with the 'interpol' virus approximately one month ago. A family member noticed some odd behavior and took the PC to an 'in-store' tech center for a diagnostic. This center stated the machine was infected and …  |
| | Android-driven devices, including smartphones and tablets manufactured by the likes of Asus, LG, Motorola and Samsung, are being sold with pre-installed malware according to claims made by the CTO and Founder of Marble Security. David Jevans made the claim following complaints from a potential client that a mobile security platform … |
| | It has been [officially confirmed](http://php.net/archive/2013.php#id2013-10-24-2) that the php.net website of the open-source PHP programming language has been hacked and infected with malware. The successful breach of the site came to light yesterday morning when the Google Safe Browsing service started flagging php.net as serving up malicious scripts. This was, at …  |
| | Hey guys.. I had some good help last time but now here is whats happenieng As soon as I turn the computer on, the Windows explorer keeps closing itself, tries to re-open it and then close again. Now I am working with the task manager to connect to internet and …  |
 | Spambot has taken hold of my computer and is sending out emails to my clients, friends and family. If someone could help me get this off of my computer, I would appreciate it. I do need the information in laymen's terms, I'm so not IT (but I learn quickly). |
| | Hi! I'm usually on Firefox, windows 7 64 bit, fujitsu lifebook, run adblocker on FF and I get these weird tabs that just open right in front of my eyes sometimes that say "hope", "patience" etc. and have a kind of colored border, nothing on the tab, just the tab … |
 | I scanned my system with Malwarebytes today and located the directories of several viruses. I used NotePad++ to open the executable files and deleted all the code written therein and saved the change to the virus. I proceeded to delete the viruses with Malwarebytes; but, I wondered, had I left … |
| | As a gamer myself, I thought that last year was a pretty good one. After all, not only did I get to play both GTA V and Call of Duty: Ghosts (indeed, I'm still playing it and working my may through the prestige levels) but if I had enough spare …  |
| | Hello; I got some kind of infection or something last week, which caused my virus software not to update, and finally my computer to totally crash and would not reboot. I successfully recovered my system from an image (it was one level up of messy from actual system restore - … |
| | I have been turning my USB thumb drives into fully encrypted data containers for years now, but readily admit that the prospect of rolling up your sleeves and getting down and dirty with encryption software is not as exciting to everyone as it is to me. However, with removable USB … |
| | Hello all, can someone please help me, a year and a couple hundred Euro later still have my problem. Internet explorer keeps opening by itself - up to a hundred pages, all to the home page. I have had people look at re-formatted the harddrive several times and nothing. Have …  |
| | My task bar in XP changed color to a pale green and the font size changed (I am paritally color blind, so color is a guess to a degree) from the normal blue. When that happens, the wireless internet won't work either. I have run all the programs that you … |
| | According to a [report](http://www.fireeye.com/resources/pdfs/fireeye-operation-ke3chang.pdf) from researchers at US security outfit FireEye, a number of computers belonging to diplomats attending the G20 summit in Russia three months ago, including at least five European foreign ministries, were successfully targeted by Chinese hackers. FireEye researchers had monitored a server, one of 23, used … |
| | Hello, I am currently running Windows 8 and am having an issue with Internet Explorer. Even with no programs running, IE constantly opens and tries accessing Outlook.com and hits an error screen from Outlook.com saying the requested page cannot be found. While downloading the virus scanners for the logs, I … |
| | **Hi, I have some unknown malware on my computer. When browsing online, constant annoying popups and ads come up, my homepage is constantly changed to aol for some reason, and I absolutely can't remove it. I've tried MBAM (latest one included, totally clean), AVAST, AVG, Lavasoft adaware, spybot, etc etc …  |
 | Hallo, My name is Jeannot Thewissen. I am from the Netherlands so it could be that my english isn't so good. What's my Problem: Windows 8.1 is acting strange. With acting strange I mean: - automatic zoom in. (won't zoom out) or can zoom out and immidiately windows zooms in. … |
| | hello, can someone help me get rid of a toolbar/ or a virus, i don't know what it is/ it's called Gqs.donedrive I have absoluteley no idea how it got there, it just showed up and now I can't remove this annoying little green leprechaun x.x |
| | Every time I open IE, it always shows an extra window running and using alot of resources. I try to end it, and it restarts? I have anti-virus and have ran Malware Bytes. I downloaded Chrome (was going to uninstall and reinstall IE), and it now appears to do the … |
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 | I want to work on an antivirus software program. But, what should I know first to dig?  |
| | We have a HP PowerEdge 400SC running Window server 2008 and a MailNow! 5 as the compay mail server. Recently we have a repetitive of mail in 2 and some time in 3. I have check the server, scan for virus, spam and malware but couldn't find any. So could … |
| | Hello I've been getting these weird code on my site. Here is a sample "#74ed9f# if(empty($doo)) {$doo = "";echo $doo;} #/74ed9f# ". My antivirus also gets alerted when I received visit my site. Here is my site's link http://callumco.com/agranex_cms/ What is this and how to fix? Thanks!  |
| | Users of online banking services are at risk from a new 'in the wild' Trojan, Hesperbot, which has been discovered by the ESET malware research lab. Researchers have found that infections of users in Turkey are currently most rife, with users in the Czech Republic, Portugal, Thailand and the United …  |
| | I have been unable to find help in all usual sources. Admin profile created when PC was purchased gets error msg. "insufficient permissions" for many mundane activities.Admin profiles named CREATOR OWNER, TRUSTED INSTALLER, SYSTEM, ADMINISTRATOR have full control with inherited permissions. Norton, MSFT, pcesupport all acessed remotely & claim these …  |
| | I've had this problem come and go and have tried everything to resolve it. Program icons don't load and instead are blank. "My Computer" doesn't load anything, it appears to be loading, but nothing ever appears. Context menus (on files and folders) do not load and usually crash the current … |
| | Gateway Laptop runs slower than slower. Never seen a machine run this slow. Tried to run MS MRT and it didn't get a quarter of the way through the scan before it auto shut down. Running security software will not complete because of auto shut down after 5 minutes. Tried … |
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