Recent content by howtobeironic

One program that can whip you out of not allowing to go to security sites if Rkill, provides mirrors and fake names. Run it before you run any AV solution.

I have seen some types of it planting on router itself. If you temporarily fix but get it again try resetting your router.

If you are too concerned, legal torrents have mostly safe peers, and you can check each peer. However if you don't want people to know your IP you'll need a VPN that supports P2P. ProtonVPN's Premium gives you a few. Not quite expensive, however it will be slower than your daily P2P

Sounds like the old "My Removable Drive" virus, had to deal with that a few times. Stubborn, but doesn't do much. It creates an hidden file with no name, plants a shortcut ("My Removable Drive(X:)"), an autorun pointing at it, and inside the folder, a few more randomly named files (supposedly...

https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri has detailed information on lots of games, and they also have a basic program which will get information from you computer and compare it to gmae requirements. Minimum means you should be able to play it on minimum settings with no interruption...

Sounds like an adware, in that case the combo of AdwCleaner and Malwarebytes should do the job, I've seen stubborn iterations which survive that though. https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/

I agree with webworkings. You need to wipe all the partitions and you're fine to go. If you want to reinstall the dual boot structure do install Windows first, then install Linux.

Basically, anything with a program sophisticated enough (and has some way to receive virus, display and sound wouldn't work) can be virused. Storage and BIOS (GPU's have BIOSes called VBIOS as well) can be hacked, therefore the most common is the OS in the storage, since when you get a foothold...