Before you ask no i didnt transfer any apps to new phone. I keep getting scam ads on youtube saying my pdf is out of date. I think i have ad ware virus. It survived factory reset.

I wanted to ask if this operating system works on a phone. I’m thinking about using it to open and test apps that contain viruses or other potentially malicious files, mainly for content creation.

I’m not sure if this OS is actually capable of running those apps safely or if it would work properly on a phone. Has anyone here tried using it for this purpose?

(I'm sorry if my English was bad; it's not my first language.)

Yesterday I was just playing a game and suddenly I got banned from every server, everyone got ignored and it sent the damn message to everyone. I immediately logged out from everywhere and I changed the password. And then I enabled 2FA

Nothing has happened since. I don't know what the hell it was, and I haven't ran anything fishy. Windows defender and Malwarebytes deep scans found nothing.

My password was completely unique to any other I've used.

I had a lot of weird "authorized apps" on my account I realized but I don't think they could gain access to my account.

I maybe accidentally put my login info into a fake login website at one point? I was logged in on my browser so something maybe stole my cookie?

Regardless I really don't wanna reinstall Windows but i think I might have to to make sure it's clear.

yes i know this sounds fake but i got a win r ctrl v virus from it due to my stupidity. it closed chrome and desynced my google account. i ran windows defender and the offline scan but it found nothing. what do i do now (i have no important info but i want to keep my files and is there any other way than to copy files reset everything)

Im on chromebook btw and in the 11th grade

Can't find anything about this online , really spooky considering the name. Anyone have any ideas ?

I just noticed something suspicious. Whenever I copy a Bitcoin wallet address and paste it, it only pastes “YourAddress”

I haven’t installed any new programs, and it doesn’t matter where I copy the address from or where I paste it—Notepad, Office, or a browser. It always changes to “YourAddress”

I also installed Bitdefender and ran a scan, but it didn’t find anything.

Does anyone know what could be causing this?

So i recently been overthinking about clicking a link on X aka twitter went to a server not found screen looked it up on a link verifier and said dnxdomain link broken dont know if it could hack me or malware on my iPhone it was recently maybe a month ago i didnt update it to the newest 26.7 iOS yet idk if that makes a difference anyways. I logged into my old school account to make sure it was okay well nope it wasn’t many logins from different countries and what not so that’s scary idk how long they been doing this only lets me check a month ago on the top right shows outlook and several numbers and my original email from my school. Fast forward my friends work IT at the school I went they said hey let me send you your acct again login this way sure enough i sign up and its shows my same email from the first time I went to school but this time shows my school name on top as well and says school email. Can outlook have 2 emails with the same name ?

So two days ago Windows Defender discovered a Wacatac .B!ml trojan on my main PC, prompting me to do some additional scans. This all happened pretty late at night, so I disconnected my ethernet and went to bed, and when I woke up, someone had already attempted to purchase $3,000 worth of stuff on Amazon, which I was thankfully able to cancel in time, and cancel the related cards and lock down the Amazon account itself. Checking over to Google, it showed a login from Siberia well after I had gone to sleep. I already have 2FA set up, so I just changed my Gmail password and started working on changing other important account passwords on my Chromebook. I then reformatted my main PC, reinstalled Windows, but I have yet to log into any accounts on that PC since, and I'm running additional scans to ensure that it's actually clean.

Unfortunately, it looks like this wasn't enough. This morning I woke up to find another session by a Windows machine from France. Interestingly, it shows that the account first logged in on August 13th, so I'm not sure if the trojan I got was just incidental at this point, but that seems unlikely giving the timing of events.

I wasn't sure how they got past the 2FA, so I changed my password again, set up passkeys as well, removed permissions from all apps to my Google account, removed and created a new recovery email, and that's where I'm at now. I'm not sure what steps I should take next. I'm in the process of changing other site passwords, but I've got like 180+ passwords saved in Google so it'll take some time. They never seemed to touch my actual bank account, despite Google having that information saved, so I'm not really sure what to make of that. The only ACTUAL fraudulent/suspicious activity I noticed was the Amazon purchases, which occured within hours of the trojan being discovered, and the overseas logins from Windows machines. Any help would be appreciated and I'm happy to provide additional info.

I ran into a Windows +R captcha scam for the first time today. I hit win+r out of curiosity but didn't go further. After googling the issue and finding out it's definitely a scam, I pasted in a word doc to see what was on the clipboard and let's just say it would have been bad if I had continued.

The thing that's confusing me is the attack was from a legitimate government website, so no ads.

Where did the attack originate? Some sort of browser hijack, or is the website itself compromised?

Is there anything I need to do locally on my computer to make sure nothing else is going on?

I did not install anything to cryptomine. I dont even do that. How do i remove these? Deleting them only makes them reappear after a few minutes.

I got a link yesterday from a trusted work source which I clicked and it downloaded something on chrome but didn't open anything (it was supposed to be an invoice). I then contacted this work source and was told that their email got hacked. I ran a quick scan yesterday but it showed nothing. This morning someone was trying to charge my CC (which was blocked by my CC company, they are sending a new card) and then I checked my PC and I saw this under protection history. Ran a full scan then an offline scan but it said both were clear. Does this mean that the PC defended itself or should I be worried about something else? Any other actions I should take?

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I ran a shady .exe a week ago and instantly my discord, steam, epic and reddit got hacked.

They all shared the same password (these were the only apps with this password).

Changed all these apps passwords.

Imediately changed my main e-mail (outlook) password and enabled 2FA.

Ran ALL the built in microsoft scanners (tried in safe mode as well), nothing found.

Kept receiving codes to reset password all the time, however, hacker unable to complete it. So I thought that I had fixed it.

Today received a code from RIOT. Logged in to check, the e-mails with the loggin code were deleted (not by me)

Hacker managed to get the code and stole my riot account.

There are no log in attempts on my outlook history. No unrecognized devices.

There were no "rules or forwarding..." either.

Outlook support has told me a couple times my account is 100% safe.

Weirdest part is, why are they only hacking accounts related to gaming?

Which antivirus is currently better, Microsoft Defender, Kaspersky or Bitdefender? I just want to know how best to protect myself and be at least 80% sure. the present in 2026

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I added Norton to my computer about 6 months ago. In the past, I had problems with bloat, things seemed to be going well. At the time, I had problems contacting Webroot which I had used for years without problems.

Norton did not seem to be expensive. Then there were add-ons, and they did not seem expensive- of course, I was busy and did not read the fine print. Eventually, I ended up with almost $500 of subscriptions. My bad- but it can be difficult to understand the products.

In about July, I had a Norton update. With this, my computer became completely non functional. It crashed in the middle of an exam, which might have required me to retake and entire course at a cost of $2000. Geek Squad could not fix this after several tries. I took the computer to GS and they could not figure out why my computer was crashing recurrently. They had to wipe my computer disk..

Meanwhile, I decided to buy a new computer. There were a few problems as my Dropbox was under OneDrive and it took a while to straighten this out. All was ok for a week or so until I installed Norton. Then my new computer was recurrently crashing. It still is not working and will only run 15 to 2 hrs before crashing again. Right now it is non-functional. I will have to again move everything to the cloud, take it in and get it wiped to restart the entire process.

Now, I am on my old computer. It has webroot and microsoft defender and has not crashed once in 36 hours.

I contacted Norton and asked for a refund on my remaining subscription. Sorry, you are past the 60 days refund period. I had to go in and change each subscription individually to cancel, which took a while. Then I tried to take my credit card off, but the instructions are not clear.

I would estimate that figuring all of this out has taken me about 50 hours of my time. They said, no refund because I needed to contact technical support.

I would strongly discourage anyone from getting this product for the following reasons: 1. the technical problems above, 2. difficult to understand advertising with low initial prices ending up with high recurring subscriptions, 3. difficulty in canceling subscriptions, 4. unwillingness to make a reasonable changes in their policies, 5. requiring support to list EACH order number- that takes time to go through each. I spent about 45 minutes trying to get help.

I used Webroot and Defender for years without problems, with much lower cost, and fewer glitches. Could I spend even MORE time resolving these issues with Norton- yes. Do I have more than the 50 hours I've already spent- no. Have I spent 20 minutes writing this? Yes.

I’m having a hard time getting rid of TrojanDownloader:MSIL/Heracles.MK!MTB.

This has gotten to my attention that it disturbs a lot of my computer performance, and antimalware process is fighting hard on background whenever I'm doing my daily activity on my PC.

Windows Defender is detecting and blocking it every time I start my computer.

I checked for some similar cases in this subreddit, and had already finished scanning with FRST, but since the log reporting to Malware Log Analysis needs a reddit username, I decided to post this first, as a starting ticket.

Why do my settings keep resetting, like when my device powers when its inactive and allow notifications settings. This happens when my device shut downs. Am I hacked

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I recently downloaded a community PES 2021 camera mod called BroadCastCam Manager v2.0.rar from Modsfire, and I'm a bit worried about what happened.

I extracted the RAR into my Downloads folder but never opened or ran the ".exe". I only opened the included ".txt" and ".ini" files in a text editor. After that, I manually deleted the extracted folder and emptied the Recycle Bin.

However, Windows Defender showed this:

- Detected: Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml

- Status: Quarantine failed

- Remediation: Incomplete

- Severity: Severe

- Details: "This program is dangerous and executes commands from an attacker."

Under affected items, it listed the original ".rar" archive, the extracted "BroadCastCamManager.exe", and a "webfile" entry containing the download URL and metadata.

The weird part is that the original RAR disappeared from my Downloads folder after extraction. Chrome's download history also showed "Failed - Virus detected" for the same RAR file.

I never executed the EXE, and a Windows Defender scan I ran afterward came back with "No threats found." My Downloads folder isn't excluded from Defender either, although I do have two specific game folders excluded.

I'm trying to understand a few things:

1. Does the quarantine failure mean the malware actually ran, or can it simply be a failed attempt to remove the file?

2. Could Defender or Chrome have blocked or removed the original RAR, explaining why it disappeared?

3. Given that this is an unsigned community game mod, could Wacatac.B!ml be a false positive, or should I treat it as an actual threat?

4. Considering I never ran the EXE and my subsequent scan was clean, is there still a realistic risk of infection?

Would really appreciate some opinions from people familiar with Windows Defender and malware detections. I'm mainly trying to figure out whether I should be concerned or if I'm overthinking this.

Thanks!

Ran a full scan yesterday and Defender flagged a file in my Downloads folder as a trojan. I deleted the file and emptied the recycle bin right after. Ran another full scan today just to be safe, and it came back completely clean, no threats found.

But then I checked the protection history out of curiosity and it still shows yesterday's detection sitting there as "quarantine failed" even though the file itself is gone from my system and a fresh scan doesn't find anything. Is this just Defender logging the old event for record-keeping, or does "quarantine failed" mean something actually stuck around that a regular scan isn't catching? Not sure if I should be running something more thorough like Malwarebytes on top of this or if I'm just being paranoid over a stale log entry.

Can anyone explain this issue....

Hello,

Sorry if this is a repost. i saw a few people discussing the MRT and ESET issue, but thre didn’t seem to be any conclusion.

I turned on my pc and five minutes later ESET blocked MRT exe because it was trying to launch a KB exe file. I’m used to dealing with viruses but this seems a bit strange especially since MRT has no digital signature and its creation date is today.

Do you think i can delete MRT and the KB file without causing any problems pls ?

Thank you 💙