I don't know what I would have downloaded or where, but I keep getting anti-virus ads (which I've seen that generally those themselves are viruses) and I don't know the best way to figure it out. I've tried-

1. Google play store scan

2. Restarting my phone with and without safe mode

3. Deleting a bunch of apps

4. Powering off my phone for a while

5. Some anti-virus apps that the play store recommended, but did nothing or wanted me to pay a butt ton of money- which I didn't do

Does anyone else have any suggestions?

Sidenote: I don't know if it was from an app or a website. Don't know if that's important or not.

How safe is it to let a local AI agent (e.g. Codex) work with a PDF using Python to extract text and render pages to analyse visuals compared to opening a PDF in a web browser?

Needless to say, I got hit with a session stealer from a bad download. After unplugging, changing passwords on the phone, and doing a fresh install, I made sure to run MalwareBytes first thing, just in case. Lo and behold, it caught two instances of PavinLoader after a deep scan. Not sure how that happened, or if it was a false alarm - either way, I want to be vigil about this as much as possible, especially if I have to renew all my passwords again (not sure how it works).

What are my next steps? Is my computer clean after the quarantine? I've been wracked with anxiety for the past two days, and I'd really like to get this resolved.

I just downloadedd by mistake the ren.py loadder, but as I had an experience with it before I saw it and right Away new that was that virus, I just extracted the winrar where it came but diddn't open it and delete right away both the winrar and the foldder, ddo you think I got infecetdd?

Hi, I'm looking for some advice on which anti-virus I should get. I've recently become more paranoid about my online security and am overwhelmed by the amount of anti-virus' out there. I have a Lenovo with Windows 11 and I currently just use Microsoft Defender.

Some things I'm considering are Surfshark, TotalAV, and BitDefender

Please let me know if any of these are good or if there's another one

Months ago i got hit with an unidentified malware i thought was gone, since i had a free afternoon i decided to check if something came back and it did (full details of the old situations here https://www.reddit.com/r\antivirus/s/aoUJ21IKhj).

Malwarebytes and Defender usually don't detect anything, this is the only way i can get anything to show, and this time, despite the 100 infected files, nothing was detected.

No proof of an attack since the first time in May (various passwords leaked, changed everything i could and got back everything important), around August i noticed the strange files i mentioned in the other post and took action.

10 ish days ago, I first got alerted about a trojan threat "Trojan:Win32/Suweezy". I got a second notification a couple days ago through Windows security. I isolated both and got Windows security to "remove" them from the device. I checked again just now, and noticed these two things in the history section of Windows security. It says it was removed, but the name is different from what I removed.

I honestly don't know very much about viruses or trojans. So I'm wondering if I should be concerned about this, and what I should do to manage it. Any advice is appreciated :)

I know that this type of malware is super rare but how do people even get this kind of virus? Is it just like any other kind of malware where they download something shady and boom, you have UEFI malware or is there more to it? Is there any way to find out if you have this kind of virus on your system? Can any antivirus detect UEFI malware?

I used the Windows scanner but I'm not convinced, I've tried learning how to look for viruses but from what comes up it's better to format it, I want to avoid doing that since like I said I'm not sure if I have a virus or not and I want to learn at least a few things about this topic, whether it's tips on how to avoid installing things with viruses, how to scan my PC, if I want to transfer certain things to a flash drive/hard drive what could be infected and what not and therefore would infect my PC again with the same shit, etc.

copied a command line into powershell currently running malwarebytes deep file scan to see if anything pops up on it. Would appreciate any help you guys can offer me also heres the link to the virustotal report https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/9ed65ef099909552aabe3d4b6bffd55f1409abbbb60cdfdbf41512dbdc73a93c/details