Topic: Free, good malware proggie
SparklingCrystal 💖💎's photo
Mon 05/29/17 02:29 AM
I got this weird thing on my PC since about a week. I keep seeing a flash of a popup that disappears as soon as I see it. So fast I only see an outline of it, so I cannot see what it's from.

Also, of late the lights of my webcam are on, and often keep flashing. If memory serves, these lights were never on when not in use (not 100% sure). I don't use them, they're too bright for me. Nor did they ever flash. When I use the cam, the lights are off though.

I ran Malware Anti-Malware Bites, found 4 thingies, removed them. But it still happens. Ran Trend Micro Housecall virus-scan, nothing.
Now I know sometimes different anti-malware proggies come up with different things, so I want to run another one. But I can't for the love of God remember the names of the ones I used to use that were good and safe.
Anyone?
I came across Spybot, but I vaguely remember that being malware itself?

notbeold's photo
Mon 05/29/17 02:57 AM
Hi, Kaspersy is another antivirus similar to - but different to Trend. It's cheap and can be easily got rid of if you want to eliminate it.

There is a free one off the internet, with a V in the name, AVS? or something like that, which may do something.

Look up Major Geeks and search there.

If you use Nortons, you may have trouble getting rid of it when you want to.

Never open an email unless absolutely sure it is from someone you know.
Avoid unknown photo and video files, viruses etc. hide in them.

Good luck.

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Mon 05/29/17 02:58 AM
Spybot is an old program that is now outdated. It sounds to me like an adware problem. Adware is the big problem now. Maybe this will work for you. It's a really good program.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/

SparklingCrystal 💖💎's photo
Mon 05/29/17 05:09 PM
Thank you both! flowerforyou