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I saw something in my email about newegg being compromised by hackers. I visited the site possibly around the time it was infected with malware but luckily I didn't buy anything and have never purchased anything from newegg. AVG shows no infections and Im just wondering how I protect myself in...

So I'm concerned with the potential for ads to infect my pc with malware. Ive never used an ad blocker and I'm pretty careful about my internet browsing, that means no shady sites or the usual things that you would need to worry about. I have though read reports of ads on youtube actually...

So the only place my pc fits well is behind a bar in my small apartment. With my tv in the living room as well theres just no other ways to rearrange this setup. Bedroom wont work either. The problem is that the bar is connected to the sink, and the back wall of the bar seems to be some kind of...

IbuyPower. Ive since replaced the psu and installed an extra case fan.

I bought a prebuilt pc that had some screws missing from the fan and a cheap off brand psu so ive checked everything else in the pc but the heatsink. The cpu is an i7 7700k with a corsair h60 liquid cooler. Ive had the pc for about 5 months and daily have long gaming sessions. If they had forgot...

My concern isn't getting a virus when downloading it. My concern is can someone modify open source material that would then do whatever they modified it to do when I execute the file. Basically once its on my computer can just anyone change that file?

If I download a free open source game can anyone modify that file to do something malicious? My understanding is that anyone can modify the files. Can someone modify an open source game after Ive downloaded it in a way that would affect me? Or once I download it will the file remain the same...

I'm making this thread to see what the safest and most effective settings for my antivirus are. Of the available options there is fix automatically, move to quarantine, repair, and delete. And then under processing of infected archives there is try to remove only the infected file from the...

Do any of you do a fresh os install when your AV stops a threat?

I have the free version of AVG. When browsing the internet I encountered an avg popup saying that something like blank.survey was stopped by avg because it was infected with malware. I alt+f4 just to be safe to close the popup. I did two deep scans after that with no threats found. My question...

Yes I did. And I was under the impression windows safety scanner was the only safe scanner to use while having another antivirus program installed as long as you didn't have any active scans going that would cause conflict.

So I have avg free as my protection but Ive read some disturbing things about a once rogue software disguised as avg. Also my computer came with a free one year MacAfee subscription. I'm wondering first of all how to tell if the AVG software is legit. I scanned it with windows safety scanner and...