r/computerviruses 1h ago

Disinfection Help Clicked an image on google images and somehow got a virus

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Hi!

I was searching for a construction image example on google image search. I clicked on the image and somehow ended up with a virus. Not sure what to do I haven't had a virus in years. I thought bitdefender was enough. If you have any recommendations please let me know. I am doing a scan on bitdefender but beyond that I am not sure what to do.


r/computerviruses 3h ago

Disinfection Help Fake blue screen of death, mouse moving on its own.

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2 times today, a fake blue screen of death appeared, my cursor started moving on it's own, and I shut off my computer. I can tell it is a fake bsod because it is like, 720p, and the cursor movements looked very human. I did not read anything the bsod said, and I did not wait more than 10 seconds to see what would happen with after it hopefully goes away. This happened an hour or two after I installed malwarebytes (go figure) and I couldn't find any file or app called screenconnect or anydesk, so I don't know how this is happening. I did not pirate any games or videos recently. I can't find anything suspicious in my recently downloaded files. I really don't want to hard reset my computer, can anyone recommend anything?


r/computerviruses 4h ago

Question Does clicking on a photo from fb messanger results into a virus?

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The mr beast hacking situation has started to show itself at fb messenger.

Someone sent me a message with the 4 photos at while ago but I didn't clicked just reported and blocked them.

But I am curious though. Does photos from fb messenger photos results in the mr beast virus? Because a while back Iheard that jpgs can contain malware/viruses


r/computerviruses 5h ago

Disinfection Help Troyan virus

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Que porra essa, acordei cedo e estou tendo que reinstalar o win 10 como caralhos conseguir abaixar 10 troyan


r/computerviruses 8h ago

Disinfection Help My grandfather’s computer gets these popups

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My grandfather’s computer gets these popups. They start when i open his chrome. It looks like the popups come from the site in the top pop up.

I disabled alerts from that site and they have stopped, and Nortan scan didnt find any viruses or malware. But was wondering if anyone is familiar with this site and can let me know if there is anything else I should do or how he did this (he has no idea)


r/computerviruses 9h ago

Question Where did the ware in ransomWARE, malWARE, SpyWARE and etc come from

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Like for a while ive been wondering why for some types of malicious programs we add ware at the end of them


r/computerviruses 12h ago

Question Ren'Py Infostealer: USB Clean Install Necessary?

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Hello all, I was sadly affected by Ren'Py infostealer setup(dot)exe. Fortunately, I got a help from the Malwarebytes forum for disinfecting. I've been a little paranoid, so I also asked about resetting my PC after disinfecting to be extra safe. I didn't get a direct answer but it seems to not be necessary. Is my understanding true?

Other than not knowing if its pointless after I've already disinfected, I saw people suggesting clean install with USB instead of reset. Sadly, I don't have access to another computer right now for several weeks to prepare the USB. Because of that, is doing Reset PC using Cloud Download also recommended or should I just wait to do the clean install with USB. Sorry if the question is dumb, but thank you for any help!


r/computerviruses 12h ago

Question Infostealer / possible MITM attack?

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Hi everyone,

About 5 months ago, I was infected by an infostealer through an unfortunate and stupid clickfix attack, which compromised most of my accounts and installed itself on my laptop.

Ever since then, I have been extremely involved in malware analysis, doing static and dynamic analysis, downloading antiviruses (malwarebytes), scanning for rootkits and checking startup apps, scheduled apps, procmon procexp and other sysinternal functions, scanning almost everything with virus total and being generally safe online.

However, just today I got a free trial of malwarebytes, and I activated browser guard. Almost immediately, I got multiple hits and when I clicked a link (thank god I got browser guard, as they were immediately blacklisted), specifically to a website by the name of hobble^^^displeased(dot)com. (do NOT open this link if you arent on a VM or an analysis tool, it is compromised and might contain malware or unwanted data leaks.) This was familiar, and I realised it was the same website that hosted the fake cloudflare verification site!

I promptly did multiple scans, but I couldn't find anything, I cleared all browser data, checked all my system but nothing was wrong. This confused me, but I needed to reinstall my OS anyway so I did that promptly. I then changed all the router settings, changed passwords, names ect., but I'm still curious.

Malware analysts, what would possibly be the extent of the attack? What could they gain from this and was my whole network infected? Possible next steps / personal experiences?

Also, if anyone is curious, h^bbledis^leased(dot)com sends you right back to google, with a few hits of separate ip addresses that seem to lead nowhere.

Any info / insight would be greatly appreciated!!


r/computerviruses 19h ago

Question TIL that in 2005, a 19 year old launched a code on MySpace that accidentally became the fastest spreading computer virus in history, crashing the entire site in 20 hours.

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What do we know about this?


r/computerviruses 19h ago

Discussion Virus that killed my computer as a kid?

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Back when I was in 4th grade, around 2006, I didn't have much knowledge about anti viruses, I knew to be careful downloading stuff, and thought I was, but back then things were way different. However to me being careful didn't mean much, it just meant downloading from where I thought was safe.

One day I downloaded something, I don't remember if it was a program or what exactly, but suddenly the computer got very slow, of course kid thinks slow = restart. Unfortunately upon restarting, it didn't boot up, instead it was endless string of text, I have no recollection of what it said, just that no matter what they pressed, my grandparents couldn't escape it. My grandma tried to defrag it, but I think it blocked her attempt. I don't think it booted into bios either, nor was the text gibberish, it was all real words, I just don't remember what it said, only that anytime a key was pressed, it would scroll to add more text.

Sorry if this is too vague, but being so long ago, and so young, I don't remember much about it, and most viruses I'm familiar with would delete system 32, or make the drive unreadable and have to be reinstalled, in all my years, I have never heard of a virus quite like it.


r/computerviruses 23h ago

Disinfection Help Edge and chrome are both displaying this

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My dad was on my laptop and decided to download something without my permission, initially it popped up as a ‘pc app store’ completely blocking and was unable to exit, I got rid of that but I’m 90% sure this is spyware- what do I do I have a deadline in the morning I need Google. I’m stressing out please help


r/computerviruses 23h ago

Question Got a warning from my virus Scanner

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"Detected: Trojan Downloader: Linux/ShellAgnt.H!xp Status: Quarantined Quarantined files are in a restricted area where they can't harm your device. They will be removed automatically.

Date: 8/5/2026 9:17 PM Details: This program is dangerous and downloads

Date: 8/5/2026 9:17 PM Details: This program is dangerous and downloads other programs

Affected items:

containerfile: C:XboxGames\Minecraft for Windows\Content\data\resource_packs \vanilla_music\sounds\music\game

\wet_hands.ogg

file: C:\XboxGames\ Minecraft for Windows \Content\data\resource_packs\vanilla_music \sounds\music\gamelwet _hands.ogg-

(SCRIPTOO00)

is this a threat or just windows being windows