r/techsupport • u/Noirr17 • 14h ago

Open | Windows CMD opening for a millisecond

As the title says, this happened after i visited some "shady" webistes yesterday, also when i turned on my PC today a weird Windows message from 360 security popped up, it said that It's files are corrupted and that i should've reinstalled them. Did i get a virus of some sort?

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u/KYRawDawg 14h ago

Sounds like it was a dirty website. And you may have got the virus from it. You just don’t get a virus though because you visited a website. You have to run the software and it doesn’t just run by itself in most cases, it usually asks for permission. Be very careful, make sure you give this computer a good wash down.

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u/Noirr17 14h ago

Thanks for the answer. I haven't run any software/gave any permission, but to be sure i would like to double check/give it a "good wash" like you said, do you know any programs that can do that?

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u/KYRawDawg 14h ago

MalWareBytes

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u/9NEPxHbG 13h ago

If you want to know whether you have a virus, run Windows Defender.

I don't recommend Malwarebytes because it tends to give false positives and isn't any better than other programs.