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  1. Boost Your Windows 11 Performance: 4 Easy Tweaks You Must Try

    Windows 11 has now been around for a few years, and while many have grown fond of its sleek UI and powerful features, things can get rocky over time. From unnecessary apps hogging resources to pesky updates with bugs, your once-speedy machine may now crawl slower than a browser with 30 tabs...
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    Windows 7 windows 7 wireless network access very slow

    I have a Win 10 machine with no problems. My Win7 machine recently has become extremely slow in accessing the network, clocking in at about 1KB/s. I stopped all services I thought were unnecessary, ran virus and malware detection software then switched these off. Network Sharing Center says...
  3. Windows 10 Fixing Taskhostw.exe High CPU Usage Issues on a Gaming PC

    Specs: i7 8700k GTX 1080 32GB DDR4 RAM Details: A couple of weeks back I noticed my PC slowing down, lots of lag whilst editing in Premiere Pro and games became unplayable, giving me less than 50 frames, I don't have a fps monitor but I'd say near to 10-20 fps. I did a bit of digging and...
  4. TA18-145A: Cyber Actors Target Home and Office Routers and Networked Devices Worldwide

    Original release date: May 25, 2018 Systems Affected Small office/home office (SOHO) routers Networked devices Network-attached storage (NAS) devices Overview Cybersecurity researchers have identified that foreign cyber actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office...
  5. Windows 10 Update Failing / Trojan:Win32/Detplock (PLEASE HELP)

    I woke up this morning, and booted up my PC, then I got an alert from Virus & Threat Protection, saying that I have Trojan:Win32/Detplock on my Pc. I deleted it, but it kept reappearing, regardless of how many times I got rid of it. After some research, I decided to see if there was a system...
  6. Malwarebytes Free and Superantispyware Free

    I have both programs on my computer and wonder that since they appear to do the same thing, is it redundant to have both? Thanks in advance.
  7. Windows 8 Windows Defender Remove something On Every Startup

    Hi im using windows 8.1 Pro With media center i dont know what is it but every time i boot up the windows i see a notification right up the screen that say : Windows Defender Removing Malware i checked the quarantined item but its empty and in all detected items i see this : { Category: Tool...
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    Windows 8 Windows 8 - defender / www-searching.com malware- PLEASE HEEEELP

    Hello everybody, have a problem. Somehow got www-searching.com and cannot get rid of it. Tried to apply some instructions from internet but cannot log on as Administrator, although I am the only person ever using this computer. Beside that my Defender is off but cannot switch it on, again needs...
  9. Windows 7 Windows 7 screen flickering

    On windows that i have up, especially games, i get a very fast flickering or blinking, it briefly flashes to the desktop, some games when it flickers i was able to spot on the top menu bar 'not responding' for a split second. This only happens on google chrome when it gets really bad. This is...
  10. Windows 8 Doing a System Restore on a Windows 8.1 machine after Phone Scam

    Hi there guys, A friend of mine was taken in this afternoon on a scam phone call. The person who rung up told him that he had trojans on his computer and they were killing the websites he was going too. If he paid the scamers $250 they would remove them for him. You get the picture.... Have...
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    How can I get rid of ads from BrowseStudio?

    I keep on getting ads from BrowseStudio and other ad sites. They appear in the lower right, left and lower center of my browser (any browser Firefox or IE). The BrowseStudio also adds a "Related Searches" bar to the left of my screen. I think I this came in when I installed Adobe Flash Player...
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    Windows 8 I can't connect to the proxy server, yet I haven't installed one.

    I don't know where else to ask this so I am posting this here: A few days ago I installed a third party program which installed a hijacking search engine called snap.do, I then proceeded to uninstall it but now I can't connect to the internet altogether, so I run a virus scan and a few things...
  13. Windows 8 Malewarebytes Premium (paid version)

    Win 8.1 Pro 32-bit Right now I have MBAM free edition. Windows defender. Thinking of upgrading to paid MBAM version in order to have real time protection. I have just 5 days ago uninstalled Avast free edition. Qestions : 1. Malwarebytes Premium 2.0 $29.95 Canadian 1 year subscription. 1...
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    Windows 8 Very slow and "couldn't connect to system notification center" after malware removal

    My father accidentally fell for the "your media player needs to be updated" and downloaded a ton of malware. I used this guide: http://malwaretips.com/blogs/malware-removal-guide-for-windows/ And now it is running EXTREMELY slow and it can't load any Windows services on the computer. Any time...
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    Windows 7 Black Screen and Cursor for one minute after login

    I've had a black screen and working cursor for around a minute after entering my password at login. The desktop eventually comes up and everything appears normal. Is there anything that could be running such as the Malicious Software Removal Tool or other program? Would the Event Viewer be...
  16. TA14-150A: GameOver Zeus P2P Malware

    Original release date: June 02, 2014 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, and 8 Microsoft Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, and Server 2012 Overview GameOver Zeus (GOZ), a peer-to-peer (P2P) variant of the Zeus family of bank credential-stealing malware...
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    Windows 8 pop up ads:Windows 8

    How can I stop the pop up ads on windows 8?
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    Windows 8 Internet Explorer Hijacked

    I have Dell inspirion 15R and my problem is that whenever I open internet explorer form start screen and type my search directly into address bar it redirects to en.ezanel.com/search.../... and I want that Google should search my input not ezanel.I have tried the following steps for removing...
  19. Windows 8 Still fighting the firewall.

    Hi I'm still trying to get the firewall service to start. I did all of the things listed below, including the automatic, and manual fix..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This firewall issue is commonly found on vista and...
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    Windows 7 Multiple Drivers causing BSOD after virus

    To start, my friend downloaded a program called FirstRowSports last weekend which was accompanied with a trojan (Yontoo) which I removed with AVG 9. Shortly after the fact I started experiencing various BSOD errors when booting windows regularly. I booted in safe mode, ran driver fusion and...