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What is the worst experience you have ever had involving Viruses/Malware? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The old search engine hijackers were honestly the worst malware I had to deal with somewhat regurarly

Anything more serious either cleaned up with malwarebytes or warranted reformatting the hard drive, but the hijackers were relatively easy but annoying and tedious to get rid off

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The old search engine hijackers

I literally just cleaned up a computer at my wife's workplace that had a hijacker on it like 2 weeks ago. kitty-cri

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's honestly impressive how many ways there are to hide those just in the browser's configs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To be fair her teaching assistant put it on there and she has a tendency of clicking on everything and just isn't computer literate at all so it was more of an inevitability than anything. It installed a reskinned Chromium that redirected searched so it wasn't super bad. is ran MalwareBytes and got a few more possible threats too. Glad it wasn't anything super severe. I'm out of practice lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, thankfully the modern ones are usually pretty easy to clean, I remember searching through configs for variations of the fake search engine