Spyware

Forum discussion tagged with Spyware.
  1. G

    Solved! Phone keeps opening tab/displaying ads on its own

    Been dealing with this for a few weeks now, but my phone will randomly open Chrome (and, if I'm already in Chrome, a new tab) to some website about downloading a crypto browser app. Then two days ago, I also started getting some drop down ad on my screen itself of some not-Facebook ad (It's...
  2. M

    Solved! What's the most effective way to detect spyware on Galaxy S8?

    I have reason to believe that my son's phone, as well as, mine have been bugged. My ex has access to my son's phone during visitation. And in doing research, I'm seeing that this sorry of thing can be done remotely. In addition to battery loss, freezing up, hot temps and lagging, I often see...
  3. Ginko-san

    Question Safari downloads random ZIP file

    So, I've been experiencing something weird. Safari has downloaded a random ZIP file twice so far. The download was made while browsing Facebook and WhatsApp respectively. The ZIP file is called 2018-2019.zip and contains an alias. I did not open the alias file, however, the properties window...
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    Solved! Looking to get rid of adware/spyware

    I have the best antivirus but it seems icant find anything, this file called sdsis keeps popping up, and this website adsv123.com Can someone please help?
  5. J

    Solved! Undectable spyware on Computer

    I was the victim of some brazilian hacker group that wanted to spy on me. The spying went on for at least half a year before I became aware of it. I did frequent, usually daily virus checks with malwarebytes and other respectable anti virus programs and none of them found anything. The spyware...
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    ryptoMiner, Trojan.AU, Lost Admin Access, New Admins

    The event took place on October 13, 2018. My laptop got infected by a cheat for a game downloaded by my classmate without my consent. After the infection, I lost my ability to: Administrator Rights Open TaskManager Open ControlPanel Everything except the browser and some applications...
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    Is "totally-not . spyware . lol" malware?

    Hello everyone I recently updated my iPhone 6s to iOS 12 and it runs very smoothly. However, today someone told me about "totally-not . spyware . lol" as a website which jailbreaks your device in iOS 10. I knew it wouldn't work but anyway I tried it and it gave me an error about that it...
  8. G

    Nasty Spyware Infects 11 Million Users: What to Do Now

    Researchers have discovered a number "browser extensions and mobile apps" that are invisibly collecting the browsing history of over 11,000,000 users Nasty Spyware Infects 11 Million Users: What to Do Now : Read more
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    Question About Possible Malware/Spyware Infection

    Hello, I have long been wondering how is it possible to be completely certain that your computer has absolutely no malware/spyware/adware/trojan infecting it? I have (stupidly) used a secondary software installed along a torrent (whose main program worked without any issue), which, after I...
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    Solved! Porn popups wrecking my head

    I have always been IT savvy in terms of removing spyware etc. Recently though I cannot stop pages from popping up, mostly pornographic and also in the bottom right corner I was presented with a ;large erect penis. I bought bit defender on recommendation but its not fixing it. If I leave my PC...
  11. V

    New Spyware, Malware & Adware

    I don't need to get in to too much detail regarding what happened to me as I guess the title is self explanatory. (clicking yes to all those installation checkboxes because "whats the worst that can happen, I have Malwarebytes") Torrented software like the poor bloke I am and for the first time...
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    Strange folder appeared in storage drive [URGENT]

    To start, I run Win10 on a Samsung 950 Pro M.2 SSD, and aside from four random internal HDDs (used for Virtual Machines and such), I have one 4TB Seagate HDD that I put all of my large files and such onto, to preserve space on my boot drive as it is only 256GB. When clicked on, the folders...
  13. A

    AVIRA is one of the best?

    why u dont recommend Avira pro as a complete antivirus, malware, spyware, etc?
  14. V

    Spyware from hell.

    Hello guys i have aserious question to ask. Im having trouble removing one virus from my computer , smartphones and lenovo smartpad. I cant say when i got this virus and how.What i can say that it is real and the owner of it really want to piss me off , he moves around my mouse when i play some...
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    Laptop virus and cant delete HELP PLEASE

    Hi have a new laptop and downloaded something I now know I should't have and have a virus. I have a program in task manager called windows explorer or something and rc'd to trace it to some files on my C drive (I have windows 10 btw). I tried to delete it and it says I need permission from the...
  16. M

    Browsers I didn't open showing when I opened laptop

    Hi crew, This morning I opened my laptop to two Chrome tabs I didn't open. And not just a "new" tab. One was a webpage to PODS Storage, and the other was looking at the "Foreigner" movie on Redbox. Two very specific pages on two different websites. This happened at 6:30 this morning (I accessed...
  17. M

    Bf put spyware on my phone.

    How can I find what he put on my phone.This am I got up turned on my phone it said sd card removed well I don't have an Sd card he acted all weird so I know it was him and true. Please help me find what he put on my phone.Or could he have cloned it
  18. V

    Search Sixty Spyware/Malware?

    I use google search on chrome and this morning every search goes to google and then redirects to searchsixty.com. Ive run ccleaner, malwarebytes, reset chrome settings, checked extensions, restarted the PC and it still does it. Only in chrome though. How do I get rid of this?
  19. Lukey9999999

    I'm afraid I may have a RAT or Spyware.

    I have noticed some odd activity on my computer and I've read up on RAT's (Remote Access Tools I believe) and I was wondering what my best option would be on scanning for them? Anything helps.
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    Removing Covenant Eyes

    So my parents decided to put Covenant Eyes on my laptop recently, while I was away working at a camp. Basically if you don't know what CE is, well, it's a spyware. Made to stop Porn-watching habits, originally but now people are using it as parental controls to moniter childrens' and teenagers'...