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> So how why did it suddenly show up? If Avira has a pay-per-install program, I would say it's pretty likely that you're part of a botnet.
by sp0rk 6y ago
> So how why did it suddenly show up?
If Avira has a pay-per-install program, I would say it's pretty likely that you're part of a botnet.
- esperent 6y agoInteresting. I ran every kind of virus test I could find about a month ago since I was getting weird display/jank issues. Couldn't find anything, and in the end I tracked the issues down to a windows display scaling error. Any idea how I would go about testing for a botnet?
- arprocter 6y agoI've seen resetting Chrome fix all sorts of weirdness: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3296214?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3296214?hl=en
- eyegor 6y agoResetting chrome isn't much of a solution if the underlying problem is botnet affiliation (trojan, rootkit, etc). Should be reasonably easy to shut down all applications and services, and inspect the traffic going through the router for suspicious domains. If you only have a windows machine connected there should only be Microsoft traffic and maybe the router manufacturer. Anything else, and it's probably malicious.
- lordlimecat 6y agoInspecting your PC's traffic from a sniffer on your PC to find a rootkit seems like a fool's errand. If something has driver / kernel level privileges it can trivially hide such traffic from any sniffer you have running.
- eyegor 6y agoYes, that's why I said to inspect the router's traffic