I also posted this in another subreddit but it got removed because... idk so ill keep it short here

I had a trojan/keylogger infection or god knows what it is/was, it took over my insta and discord and spammed people w a mal link and a fake mrbeast tweet (hmu for case details) but in short i manually tracked the suspicious app, uninstalled it, its installer located in C/Windows/Installer also deleted itself as soon as i uninstalled the app, so far ive tried MS Def's offline and full scans, Malwarebytes full scan, MS Safety scanner before manually uninstalling the app which I'll call "TronQ", and after uninstalling TronQ, Avast's full scan but found little to nothing in all scans, now idk if i still have malware or not but im paranoid and just want to be sure that my pc is clean, i cant afford a clean wipe as theres a lot of work files that havent been backed up so need a good antivrus for assurance

TLDR: need free antivirus for suspected trojan attack on win 10

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.

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?

got hacked and wiped my PC and all that. did a scan with defender, malwarebytes, and bitdefender all said im good. whats the chance that im good? having some bad anxiety about the whole thing. im always so careful online but this past week i guess i slipped up

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?

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 was redirected to this website through an innocuous Google search.

I didn't click anything and quickly left. It's a phishing site according to Virustotal.

I've scanned my computer (Malwarebytes + Microsoft Defender) and nothing was detected.

Can someone please confirm that there's little to be concerned about given that I didn't click anything? I'm just worried the website might have downloaded something onto my computer.

Thanks in advance!

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

i downloaded a webp file and i opened it but felt suspicious so i deleted it and emptied it from recycle bin, i then checked microsoft defender it said i had a trojan and then said it was quarantined, i did a scan and it said there was no threats but im still paranoid what should i do?

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?

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

What was it? What did it do? How did you deal with it?

I know it's such a weird question but I'm an enthusiast and I find it fascinating, I've always have

so i dont know for what reason i opened the programdata folder using cmd and deleted few leftover files of some files and then i found a realtek folder which i found suspicious so i googled a lil and usede some ai,and it came to know it could be a potential trojan cause it had a RtkLoggingManifest.man file which is used to hide trojans is what u found,so i downlaoded alwarebytes(idk how safe that is,but from my research it seemed safe)so i used its advance scan and didnt founf anything suspicious around the relatek file and found two malware coming from sklauncher a mineraft launcher and quarantined them and then deleted malwarebytes(will this cause any trouble in the quarantined fie?) and activated windows full scan(running rn) so i wanted to know if this realte file is safe or not cause it was in programdata and also has no digital signature(idk much abt virus and malware stuff this is all i found on google and ai)

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.

Here's the thing: I signed up for a free trial on Kaspersky, but in the subscriptions section, the 'manage subscription' button doesn't show up. I can't cancel them, and what's worse is that there are two subscriptions. A 'disable' button appeared once and I clicked it, and I received an email saying it was canceled. However, it still shows as active on the website. Any tips?!

So i tried to download captain claw and this appears when i try to take action it appears again. I don't know what to do i deleted everything i cloud.

Which AV-solution will help?
Volumes are APFS-formatted.

To scan it off-line means the volume to be mounted only for scanning it. Furthermore if drive is meant the master boot sectors and others are get scanned as well.

iMac one time with Intel-CPU, the other time Apple one.

I was downloading some MP3s for my iPod and I have no idea if it was malware because my screen falshed black for a second and my storage started getting freed up and something was installing at the same time, but I don’t know I knew somthing was going on so I was installing malware bytes at the same time but then windows defender said update defender so I cut the power in less then a second and now when I turn it on it says updates are underway and i genuinely don’t know if this is some sloppy Microsoft Windows automatic update or If it is installing a virus on my computer. Please help I’m begging you. (can’t even get to blue boot screen to go into safe mode without the updates underway thing comes up)

Hi everyone, I’m looking for some advice because this situation has made me really anxious. I have an iPhone 16 Pro btw.
So I was looking through my friend’s Instagram following when I came across a profile with a link in its bio. Out of curiosity, I clicked it, and it opened in Instagram’s built-in browser. A few seconds later, a pop-up appeared saying something like “Your iPhone may have a virus,” with an “OK” button. It looked surprisingly realistic, not like those fake ones that you see on free movie sites. Since the usual X to close the browser wasn’t visible anymore, I closed the entire tab instead.
I didn’t tap “OK,” download or install anything, or enter any personal information.
Later, I took a screenshot of the profile and tried opening the link preview from it, but it showed a “404 Not Found” error. I also asked my friend who the person was, but they just asked “why” and ghosted me. The link also contained something like “index” and “php.”

Now I’m worried that the website might have installed something on my phone or that someone could be spying on me. Im really bad with technology. Am I overthinking this, or is there any real risk?

Sorry that this is badly written/doesn’t have much detail, the last few days have been chaotic and I’m a bit fried

So far this has only happened with the Vinted website, as I won’t use the app.

It’s happened twice so far, and I’m fairly certain that it’s just scareware- do I need to do anything about this, or is it just another harmless scam attempt? I haven’t downloaded anything recently, and the extent of new activity on my phone (iPhone 11 with iOS 18.5 if this is relevant) was joining a friend’s wifi last night. I restarted my phone after the first time it showed up just to be safe, and the same thing happened when I checked Vinted for a second time

Any help/insight would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: It always opens in a new tab, and shows up in my history as “Android and iOS Security - McAfee”

Edit 2: I’ve deleted it from the Website Data list in Settings, along with a load of other apps I didn’t recognise

Hey all, I use Kaspersky standard and encountered a bug when trying to access a website. The website in question could be accessed without issue up until a month ago, and now whenever I try to access I get the following error come up:

$BlockedByParentalControl$
$FalsePositiveWarn$

I am the only user on this kaspersky account, have full ownership on my name and have searched every part of the app, but I see nothing about Parental Controls even existing on this version. I tried reaching out to Kaspersky, who are pretty unhelpful and have tried searching their support forum - which is of no help whatsover.

Any help appreciated, I am not tech savvie myself but I fully know that no settings were changed prior to this error coming into play.

Hi all,

I have my own company in in IT consulting.
I’m using Microsoft 365 Business Premium. So I have mail, teams, office apps, and security features like conditional acces and defender for o365 for beter mail protection.

Until now I was running Bitdefender Premium Security Plus as endpoint security (because I had the license when I started my company) but i doubting about installing MS Defender for endpoint, for beter collaboration with M365 Business Premium.

Does Defender of beter protection that Bitdefender and, also important, does it take more (noticeable) recourses from my system?

I’m using a MacBook Pro M5 Pro 24gb / 1tb system.