Recent content by Arbiter051

Oh I agree with you 150% that it is a huge issue that needs to be resolved ASAP. I just hope company's like Crucial and Samsung take it very seriously. My concern was it could be affected remotely as well, so I wanted to ask and make sure I take the necessary steps to further protect...

First let me say I don't post here extremely often and I really apologies if this is the wrong section to post this. I've read 4 or 5 articles on the matter and I haven't read any answer to my question. Am I correct in thinking that a person needs Actual Physical access to the drive? Or can...

Thank you all very much for your answers. :D

Alright ty for the help. I’m still curious if anyone has experienced this. I read on a few sites that windows defender flags it as a Trojan with a weird name

Guru3d is where I got it from using the east coast mirror download. I’ve been using ddu for years and it just now popped up. Should I tell hitman pro to ignore it? I am quite paranoid about security so I freaked out a little bit.

This just happened today when I decided to do my weekly scans. I uploaded to virustotal and it seems kaspersky, zone alarm and some antivirus I have never heard of flag it as malware. Nothing else flags it. I originally downloaded it from guru3d. I deleted the folder and downloaded from guru3d...

Ah good thank you. I’ll try to put my mind to rest then ^_^

I don’t use them. Process explorer has the option to submit hashes to virustotal of everything running on the system. Those are the 2 av programs that virustotal is telling me don’t like vlc and winlogin.exe The only antivirus I use is avast free and that is doing real time protection. The...

Last night I opened google chrome and avast said it blocked a malicious link as soon as I opened it. I noticed one of my addons to block bit coin mining was greyed out and so I uninstalled it from chrome and found that it was the culprit (I wish I could remember the name for the life of me...

Man, I wonder if the new Ryzen chips will have solved the spectre problem, though I am not hopeful :/ I read in the other article that if a stupid java website does open by itself, that closing your browser and restarting pc should solve the problem? I mean this assuming somehow you know for...