rootkit

So, this is a MSI GL65 laptop from about 3 years ago. It came with Windows 10 which has been upgraded to 11. Hmm, where do I start? Explorer.exe hangs frequently. I seemed to have first noticed it after fooling with Window's built in "transparent" file compression system (i.e. go to properties...

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PC World just posted a article where Bitdefender found S5Mark VPN to actually be a rootkit and not a VPN. Article link : S5Mark is a 'VPN' that is actually a rootkit in disguise, BitDefender says

Windows defender detected an attack and after it has been removed I am unable to access "my computer, my documents, folders I have created etc". I still have access to things such as icons on my desktop that are for games and programs but anything for file access and viewing that I get that I do...

Showing "Rootkit driver not installed" error and PC not starting!

Two days ago WUS on it's own updated windows update agent 7.6.7600.256, as of then Windows 7 will no longer update, 80244004 is the error message. There is not much data on the net pertaining how to fix, My question has anyone here experienced the same problem? How did you fix? What I have done...

Basically My computer crashes whenever running some sort of application such as minecraft, or even Youtube, and it also crashes at random as well. I have a 64bit Windows 7 OS, Radeon HD6870 GPU, AMD Phenom II CPU x4 855, WD 1tb HDD, Corsair Vengeance 8gb RAM, an OCZ 850w PSU, and finally a disk...

Been messing with this problem for 3 solid days with other guys on other help sites. Rran every diagnostic known to man! Nothing! Had been infected with the "zero access" rootkit. Anyways, i took a look at my "Services' program and found that damned thing had shut off most all of my...

[SOLVED] explorer.exe high CPU usage - tried everything I can think of Hi, My explorer.exe is constantly using 30-45% of my 4-core CPU. I have determined after MUCH testing that the cause is likely not a virus / malware / rootkit. I have also: tested booting into safe mode (explorer.exe is...

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I've spent the last two days reading threads on anything remotely connected to my problem but i can't fix it, i'm really hoping someone here can help me...I run Windows 7 64bit. The other day the computer shut down on it's own. I turned it back on, Windows wouldn't load, it entered a loop of...

The threat's rootkit gets an upgrade to compromise Microsoft's 64-bit operating systems by defeating driver-signing security. More...

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7 is almost immune to a piece of malware that has proven a real nightmare to users running older versions of the Windows client. Windows XP SP3 customers particularly have been hit extremely hard by Alureon, a rootkit that failed to play nice with a Windows kernel update and ended up rendering...

I believe I've got it down to a science. 1. Unhackme - http://www.greatis.com/unhackme/ removes ALL of those Antivirus 20xx both the fake alerts and the programs that can't be uninstalled. Deals with the registry so the usuall legalese to registry modification aplies so be careful. But by...

let me start by saying I didn't know this was an illegal app or something, I simply had a problem with updates. Whenever i would run update, it would detect two updates and then often would fail downloading and installing one or two and rarely would install them and then restart and the update...

This came from part of a HiJackThis log.... Hosts- 74.XXX.40.xxx paybillsnow.com (this is not the address, I will not give real link because it hyperlinks directly to infection) (There are multiple addresses linking to these browser HiJacks, I'm only showing one) This seem to be some...

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It didn't kill it but it makes the computer useleess for internet access. I have win7 ultimate 617100 7100 HP pavilion x64 1 week old intel2 quad CPU Norton is embeded with automatic ugrades If this security upgrade is not a rootkit virus it acts like one. Active X disabled and will not...

This is an issue that a Lot of people have been running into- well... eveyrone who tries to use it that is. For some reason NProtect Gameguard does not work with windows 7- this means that any games that use it to prevent exploitation also do not work, because they will only run if they detect...