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chat i kinda goofed up and fell for the oldest trick in the book while downloading a minecraft client and downloaded the advert, i was getting spammed with windows security notifications and i think i uninstalled the virus. when i scan it says no virus yay! but in protection history it says1740085748535.png

does this mean it is still on my computer or am i gucci
 
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JuanBonita said:
View attachment 25419 it says it might not be fully gone, is there any way to check
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Had this one before, Snackarcin is a PUA (Potentially Unwanted Application) Which is a browser hijacker which shows you targeted malicious adverts and reroutes you to malicious websites when trying to use the browser. Check all your browsers as soon as you can for unwanted addons, Usually you can just remove the addon from whatever browser its hijacked. Whilst in itself its not the end of the world, It does open your PC up for more dangerous attacks.

Is apparently a good video on how to delete it. My antivirus took it out when it happened though (I used Iolo System mechanic at the time) Bunch of people in the comments also saying they...
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Windows protection is shit. It once told me something like you have rn when i just bought fresh new windows 11.
If you want to make sure you dont have viruses dont use windows security but a normal anitivirus
 
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JuanBonita said:
chat i kinda goofed up and fell for the oldest trick in the book while downloading a minecraft client and downloaded the advert, i was getting spammed with windows security notifications and i think i uninstalled the virus. when i scan it says no virus yay! but in protection history it saysView attachment 25418

does this mean it is still on my computer or am i gucci
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If you are still trusting windows then i think the windows is telling that everything is good and the blocked apps mean that there was an action taken by the windows protection and your gucci
 
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At no point are you ever going to be a 100% safe doing an anti-virus scan. You're fucked, most of the times.

What you have now is PUA, potentionally unwanted application. Windows defender thinks it's something that only installs itself, install's some other advertisng bullshit and bother you with ads and notifiactions.

it's not the worst but it's a general best practice to do a full windows re-install if you get any virus or unwanted shit on your computer, you don't know if it's a trojan or anything else.

If it's in your projection history it just means it had done something about the file. make sure that the .exe is gone from the location it says it's in.
 
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Smeris said:
At no point are you ever going to be a 100% safe doing an anti-virus scan. You're fucked, most of the times.

What you have now is PUA, potentionally unwanted application. Windows defender thinks it's something that only installs itself, install's some other advertisng bullshit and bother you with ads and notifiactions.

it's not the worst but it's a general best practice to do a full windows re-install if you get any virus or unwanted shit on your computer, you don't know if it's a trojan or anything else.

If it's in your projection history it just means it had done something about the file. make sure that the .exe is gone from the location it says it's in.
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imma be real in the past two years ive done like 3 full resets and i cba to do another, 45 mins later i havent experienced anything and ive done windows and malwarebytes full scan which have both said im good. do you think i should do a full reset?
 
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JuanBonita said:
imma be real in the past two years ive done like 3 full resets and i cba to do another, 45 mins later i havent experienced anything and ive done windows and malwarebytes full scan which have both said im good. do you think i should do a full reset?
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It's a best practice, i don't know what is on your computer, on your network or if you use 2FA for the important accounts you use. If it were my computer, i would've done it.
 
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JuanBonita said:
View attachment 25419 it says it might not be fully gone, is there any way to check
Click to expand...
Had this one before, Snackarcin is a PUA (Potentially Unwanted Application) Which is a browser hijacker which shows you targeted malicious adverts and reroutes you to malicious websites when trying to use the browser. Check all your browsers as soon as you can for unwanted addons, Usually you can just remove the addon from whatever browser its hijacked. Whilst in itself its not the end of the world, It does open your PC up for more dangerous attacks.

Is apparently a good video on how to delete it. My antivirus took it out when it happened though (I used Iolo System mechanic at the time) Bunch of people in the comments also saying they got it from the same source.
 
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Bnjemann said:
Had this one before, Snackarcin is a PUA (Potentially Unwanted Application) Which is a browser hijacker which shows you targeted malicious adverts and reroutes you to malicious websites when trying to use the browser. Check all your browsers as soon as you can for unwanted addons, Usually you can just remove the addon from whatever browser its hijacked. Whilst in itself its not the end of the world, It does open your PC up for more dangerous attacks.

Is apparently a good video on how to delete it. My antivirus took it out when it happened though (I used Iolo System mechanic at the time) Bunch of people in the comments also saying they got it from the same source.
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i did the video steps so thanks for that hopefully im good now, but this has popped up in the top right of my screen, do you know how to remove it?1740094147486.png
 
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JuanBonita said:
chat i kinda goofed up and fell for the oldest trick in the book while downloading a minecraft client and downloaded the advert, i was getting spammed with windows security notifications and i think i uninstalled the virus. when i scan it says no virus yay! but in protection history it saysView attachment 25418

does this mean it is still on my computer or am i gucci
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Bro got rid of the virus and his pants slipped down and his mom cane in the room. I have heard this story before...
 
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