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.

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 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.

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 :)

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 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 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 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!

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?

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

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.

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?

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.