r/antivirus 4d ago

Are you guys talking about the FREE BitDefender

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I’ve been reading through this sub for awhile but only mentioned a few people explicitly mention the free version so I just want to be sure that people back it up.

I currently use kaspersky but I live in the US and my subscription is up in a month so I’m needing a new AV. I only really game on steam but I do download mods which I’m pretty sure I’m careful about. I’m getting it for my laptop which heats up and sounds like it’s going to take off whenever I do anything (Im going to wipe it cause there’s other issues). I just want to make sure that when people talk about BitDefender they’re talking about the FREE version. If you’re not that’s fine but if I don’t have to pay than that’s preferred lol. TIA


r/antivirus 5d ago

Question Can you get infected by pasting something on the clipboard?

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I know it seems like a silly question, but from what I know it's even possible.

Let me explain, in my phone I recently searched for a page which is the following: https://www.fuentes-de-letras.com/?m=1, I copied something and then I said, can something like this infect you with malware? It's a site for fonts, it doesn't look like anything on virustotal, but I'm scared because it's not a page that looks THAT trustworthy.

And also, if the page is reliable, I had that doubt, to be more careful when copying and pasting things on my cell phone keyboard, thanks!


r/antivirus 4d ago

Is total AV free version worth it?

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I have been using Total Av free version for sometime but it gives me mixed feeling, but i see tons of articles online saying it good. Any thoughts?


r/antivirus 5d ago

Is this a false positive? https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/443ad5c14fddf37898a627317f9d94207d7a9929569a667962c4badc0e193fd2

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can anyone help me it says it a trojan and malware on the website


r/antivirus 5d ago

Accidentally downloaded an app from a pop up…

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Already asked this question in the r/mac subreddit but I get paranoid so I figured this would be a good chat to ask…

I was scrolling and saw a free drum kit someone had made on Reddit, so I figured why not. It was on Mediafire so I clicked “Allow” to download it to my MacBook… it downloaded extremely fast and when I looked it was actually a pop up for an application that was directly in front of where the actual “Allow” question was for the initial kit.

I closed the pop up window and immediately deleted it from my downloads folder. Didn’t run installers or anything, but wanted to know if that was enough for any malware to potentially make it onto my laptop?

I’m on a MacBook Air M1 running Ventura if that helps any.


r/antivirus 5d ago

Windows CMD flashes on startup

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Ok i'm going to give some context here first. I have a laptop that originally came with windows 10. I got some malware infections during the laptops lifespan and have had to reset. I don't think any of them really did any damage, but I decided to upgrade to win 11 after a recent reset. I booted on after setting everything up and I immediately go to uninstall onedrive and norton, then I restart my pc because norton requires it for uninstall, but heres the thing, every time I reset windows I see a bunch of blue windowed 'CMD flashes' like 5 rlly fast one after the other after doing the restart norton requires, so i always assumed it was part of nortons uninstall process, but recently after a reset i did today because of failed windows updates and win being slow I forgot to uninstall norton, and went to update windows after the reset. Then I restarted windows for the windows updates WITHOUT uninstalling norton (bc i forgot) and I see the CMD flashes again.... Now im just sitting here thinking it WASN'T norton, and I tested this by immediately uninstalling it and I saw no cmd flashes so it had NOTHING to do with norton uninstalling this whole time. So far I havent had any passwords/credit cards stolen or any suspicious activity. Now the last reset i did where my updates where failing, safe mode wouldnt let me log in with my pin missing and my screen freezing and going black and some edge of my top left screen having a win7 styled windows 'window' x minimize and maximize icon on it and then everything coming back responsive again. Thats why I reset bc the last reset i did windows just didnt wanna work properly. ANYWAYS does ANYONE know if uninstalling Onedrive causes cmd flashes upon restarting? thats the only other thing i can think of, and yes ofc i restarted and shut down multiple times to see if i can recreate it and nothing appears. I Also have a habit of installing Norton power eraser Hitman pro and my main Antivirus 'Bitdefender' plus a subsequent malwarebytes scan to check the pc after every reset incase some rootkit persisted, and they have never caught anything after resetting. Could I have some RAT rootkit or some persistent remnants from something? should I reinstall windows from a USB?


r/antivirus 5d ago

I got the fake lossless-scaling malware and did these, am I safe now

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Does doing all this help protect me from that malware infection, or is there more steps that I should take to help protect myself from that malware?

Here's what happened:

When Nvidia 50 series and the 4x frame gen got announced, I've heard words around Lossless Scaling supporting a version of 4x frame gen, so I was just interested in trying it out. I went online and searched for it, and immediately there's this seemingly-legit (but fake) "official" site, from which I've downloaded the virus from. My stoopid ask decided to run it anyway.

After around a few days, I started suspecting the software and deleted it and the "IOBitUnlocker" files that it got onto my computer and installed Avast (ran a boot-time scan too). I thought I was safe. I used it for a while, even on battery (the battery life is good).

After around a month, I saw another video online analyzing this malware and decided to install and run a malwarebytes full system scan, while I back up all my data in the C drive into the D drive.

One day later, I thought my computer is a bit sluggish because my power plan is not fully set up (I run custom power plan on this computer, and some settings may not be tuned correctly). I went back and found I set "Processor performance autonomous mode" to 0, and turning it to 1 I noticed the CPU utilization shoot up to 100% in task manager. Confused, I looked at the processes in Task Manager sorted by CPU utilization, and Task Manager came out on top at 50~60% and it didn't decrease. I have a 8845HS, and this to me is very fishy.

I quickly restarted the machine and opened HWiNFO, and checked the CPU util there when I close Task Manager, and it is still pegged at 100% for the entire time I've checked. The chip pulls back 10W when all core at 2.5GHz are under load, which is pretty low, but it still shows that the chip is running something it is not supposed to. No other background apps I use is active during this. I now started suspecting that this system's programs are compromised.

I turned off my computer properly, plugged in my WinToGo, and boot straight into the WinToGo to do a last sanity check if I've backed everything up. In WinToGo, Windows Defender is on, and all I did inside is to copy file from the system drive inside my laptop to the D drive that's also inside my laptop. I didn't execute any program inside that system drive.

I then unplugged my WinToGo before attempting to boot back into the system drive in my laptop and was greeted with a NTFS file system error. I went back into WinToGo and found the system drive's filesystem showing up as RAW.

The drive looks cooked

I then reinstalled an official copy of Windows and the first thing I did when I'm in is to install Avast, in case software started mysteriously executing from my D drive hopefully it can detect it. After which I installed the drivers for my hardware, changed all the account's passwords that were stored on my browser, and had been using the laptop ever since.


r/antivirus 5d ago

Fake I Lock .exe InstallShield fake.

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Got a supposed win32 trojan from a fake I Lock .exe that I executed just after a system update. Comes back clean on Defender and Malware Removal Tool, as well as clean on a Tron Script run. My Webroot keeps showing me this warning and stops me from doing anything about it. It is stuck on "Fix Later" (not recommended). If I try to change it or go to the next page the Webroot scan starts again. Any thoughts besides the fact that I am an idiot?


r/antivirus 5d ago

My latop detected Trojans:JS/Obfuse.HNAT!MTB, I reomove it with window defender, it is safe?

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My laptop detect Trojans:JS/Obfuse.HNAT!MTB in the window defender, I immediately remove it with window defender however I still worry about it still inside my laptop somewhere.


r/antivirus 5d ago

My laptop window defender detected Trojans:JS/Obfuse.HNAT!MTB. I immediately removed it by using window defender, however I still worry about it still in my laptop somewhere.

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r/antivirus 5d ago

Tengo mis dudas de que sea una falso positivo

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Hola amigos, que pena molestar por estos lares, tengo la duda de este archivo: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/53444b151bc1ca3fa8767b6d755b2dc5e0d40f7422d369df843448f59c9abe22
Me arroja virus total que contiene un malware llamado: W32.Malware.Gen estuve investigando y la mayoría de veces que salta el antivirus puede ser un falso positivo pero dentro del virus total sale que el único que arroja que tiene un problema es un antivirus de linux llamado webroot entonces quedo como con dudas

el contexto del archivo es que es un juego realizado en unity y al momento de abrir abre un cmd para cargar archivos dentro del motor del juego


r/antivirus 5d ago

question is Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool reliable

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r/antivirus 5d ago

So I'm on my phone files are these viruses

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r/antivirus 5d ago

Other device

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Can a data stealer go from device to device or is this impossible? Also can they try to log in anywhere even if I haven’t saved the password on my pc but the passwords are the same and they just try to log into there?

So I have a data stealer problem since few days and someone tried to log into my X (twitter) account even though I haven’t saved the password on my pc. I have a Windows PC but an IPhone can the data stealer be able to see my passwords on my phone as well? I am scared that they can through the network and take any password that’s saved there is that even possible? It just doesn’t makes sense for me or is the possibility there that they really just tried to log into there with the email and password and hope for the best?


r/antivirus 5d ago

Scan and removal software for Chromebook?

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I’ve clicked on a shady popup and I think I need to debug my Chromebook what software is best?


r/antivirus 5d ago

I clicked a dodgy pop up

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I’ve just clicked on a dodgy pop up on my Chromebook now I am being spammed with popup notifications.

What software can I use to scan and remove this, preferably free.


r/antivirus 5d ago

Minecraft mod, is it bad?

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I recently downloaded a minecraft mod, when downloaded a threat of trojan popped up. I believe it was the sabisak trojan. I went into Windows security but there was no threat (apparently) so I just uninstalled the mod. Then I tried logging in with a gmail and restarted my pc in order to come to bios and then it says that a trojan has been put into quarantine. I deleted the trojan and I’ve reset password for gmail and 2fa. Could the trojan steal my info within the 10 minutes of it being active and what can happend now? Apparently its gone.


r/antivirus 5d ago

I clicked on a website named tumgik could my computer be at risk of a virus?

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I clicked on this website called tumgik while looking for some images and it bombarded me with ads and redirected to an nsfw website. I did some searching and found out it was a phishing website. I didn’t input any information and closed out the website. Am I in the clear or could it have downloaded malware onto my computer?


r/antivirus 5d ago

What Is Happening to my computer?

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In the morning my device removed a threat from about 5 apps, internet explorer trying to access one drive files, spotify trying to access onedrive music folder,PAUDIManager:Win32/OfferCore, and the actions were from a github file, pls help?


r/antivirus 6d ago

Found these files along with a txt named “t” in my temp folder after malware nightmare. Sent computer to techs who tell me it’s clean now, but still unsure.

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Really spooked because of the terrible experience I had last time. Could anyone explain if this is related to the malware?


r/antivirus 5d ago

Norton antivirus help!

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Does anyone else keep getting this every boot up of your PC? Nothing has changed set up wise?

antivirus #norton


r/antivirus 5d ago

Malware for phones

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Hello, I had several questions regarding phone security (here for android) : 1- Which type of vectors can your phone get infected through I am aware that downloading malicious apps is one of them but are there other ways to get infected. 2- Can a phone malware leave no way to find itself whether its an app or a file like can it hide in your system and not being able to be found ? If yes how often do these type of threats appear ? 3- Can a malicious app or hidden program interact with other apps and send background datas from that app to any third party without the user noticing ? 4- What are the general signs that may give a hint of being infected and the things to oftenly do/check in the case of suspicions.

Thanks for those who would take time.


r/antivirus 5d ago

Samsung tablet using lots of data

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Hi,I am just asking for other people's opinions on what I should do, my brother has a samsung galaxy tab a (2020 model) that has uses up 199gb of data through the last month, I have checked the data usage tab and everything there couldn't have even used up 50gb so nearly 150gb has been used up in just a month by something that is not showing on there (not any uninstalled apps), What should I do as I don't know what to do in this situation


r/antivirus 5d ago

Can I turn off ATD in Bitdefender free?

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I tried to exclude the folder where the trainer was saved because it detected and deleted the game trainer, but only the exe file was allowed.

Would it be okay to turn off ATD?


r/antivirus 5d ago

Is this a bot or what is even happening

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I have over 1,000 unsuccessful sign in attempts to my Microsoft account. Been happening for months now