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For about 2 years ive allowed my little brother (aged 13) to use my PC to play videogames. The trust ive placed in him was cut short...", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xpcqc5/trojan_virus/" }, { "title": "File downloaded from Google CAPTCHA", "score": 85, "comments": 24, "created_utc": 1794033314.415, "snippet": "Hi everyone, I just searched up something on google chrome on my laptop and the google CAPTCHA thing appeared (exactly like the image but on computer not mobile). I clicked the box because that's...", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xpznlv/file_downloaded_from_google_captcha/" }, { "title": "clicked on a website on google which downloaded something on mu computer", "score": 16, "comments": 11, "created_utc": 1793859623.493, "snippet": "I was searching for the website “saucenao” to find the artist for a drawing, the first website didn’t find anything matching image, so I clicked on the second website. After clicking on it, it...", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xobhym/clicked_on_a_website_on_google_which_downloaded/" }, { "title": "Is this supposed to be here ?", "score": 12, "comments": 7, "created_utc": 1793907427.32, "snippet": "There has been a hack recently on the PC launcher of a mobile game (Nikke) and so I wanted to see if I had caught something Well here's the thing this seems like a genuine Chrome app but Gemini is...", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xos23z/is_this_supposed_to_be_here/" }, { "title": "Is my PC have malware? some chinese words are showing as an app and i am not able to delete it", "score": 11, "comments": 14, "created_utc": 1793874865.759, "snippet": "", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xofec6/is_my_pc_have_malware_some_chinese_words_are/" }, { "title": "Silly me", "score": 9, "comments": 20, "created_utc": 1793964448.568, "snippet": "Hey guys. I used YT-mp3 to download a track onto my computer to play guitar to. I used the site ‘https://ytmp3-Fr(dot)com/fr/ Even after running the file stupidly and downloading it. I took a look...", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xpahxn/silly_me/" }, { "title": "I f'cked up", "score": 9, "comments": 11, "created_utc": 1793729004.23, "snippet": "Went to a website which opened a fake cloudfare verification and said to enter a code to cmd, and my mind was occupied so I did it. When I realised what I did I shut down the computer. From the...", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xn07es/i_fcked_up/" }, { "title": "Epic games launcher virus?", "score": 8, "comments": 1, "created_utc": 1794151559.095, "snippet": "I keep trying downloading the wizard for the epic games launcher but the download keeps failing because windows keeps saying its a trojan. I downloaded the wizard from this link...", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xr0y5u/epic_games_launcher_virus/" }, { "title": "Unknown accounts, 30 “Browser assistant” registry keys, and MobiGames", "score": 8, "comments": 1, "created_utc": 1794087369.72, "snippet": "I apologize it’s not screenshots, I’m too afraid to put on my internet. So, six years ago I accidentally downloaded malware. It could’ve been from a pirated game ( Steam unlocked ) or some music I...", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xqhlnn/unknown_accounts_30_browser_assistant_registry/" } ], "newest_posts": [ { "title": "Please Help (I am another idiot RenPy Victim)", "score": 2, "comments": 3, "created_utc": 1794197459.897, "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xrhzvu/please_help_i_am_another_idiot_renpy_victim/" }, { "title": "Infostealer running as Chatgpt Codex.exe", "score": 1, "comments": 1, "created_utc": 1794194131.934, "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xrgyjj/infostealer_running_as_chatgpt_codexexe/" }, { "title": "please help pdf2docs browser hijacker virus yahoo!", "score": 2, "comments": 1, "created_utc": 1794174075.009, "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xr9y1z/please_help_pdf2docs_browser_hijacker_virus_yahoo/" }, { "title": "Radmin VPN update caused sudden activity in svchost, potentially a false positive from Bitdefender due to auto-update.", "score": 1, "comments": 0, "created_utc": 1794173075.289, "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xr9kc4/radmin_vpn_update_caused_sudden_activity_in/" }, { "title": "New processes now always open?", "score": 0, "comments": 9, "created_utc": 1794171347.47, "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xr8w4z/new_processes_now_always_open/" }, { "title": "Just got hacked.", "score": 1, "comments": 3, "created_utc": 1794169026.531, "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xr7zsq/just_got_hacked/" }, { "title": "This popped up in my Windows Defender.", "score": 1, "comments": 1, "created_utc": 1794168735.76, "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xr7vli/this_popped_up_in_my_windows_defender/" }, { "title": "Ohio Virus", "score": 4, "comments": 3, "created_utc": 1794166834.72, "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xr73ah/ohio_virus/" }, { "title": "my gaming laptop has virus", "score": 2, "comments": 5, "created_utc": 1794165669.126, "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xr6m57/my_gaming_laptop_has_virus/" }, { "title": "Fake Cloudflare Verification Site - Copy & Paste Trick, this November!", "score": 2, "comments": 0, "created_utc": 1794164749.05, "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1xr68hx/fake_cloudflare_verification_site_copy_paste/" } ], "words_this_week": [ { "word": "hacked", "titles": 19 }, { "word": "trojan", "titles": 17 }, { "word": "infostealer", "titles": 14 }, { "word": "safe", "titles": 13 }, { "word": "malware", "titles": 12 }, { "word": "renpy", "titles": 12 }, { "word": "infected", "titles": 10 }, { "word": "keeps", "titles": 9 }, { "word": "please", "titles": 8 }, { "word": "windows", "titles": 8 }, { "word": "exe", "titles": 8 }, { "word": "getting", "titles": 7 } ], "preview": "This is a preview. 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