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So for the past few months – since I installed a brand new SSD last December – I have had serious suspicions that I have been infected and my PC is part of some sort of botnet. Tried signing up for Twitter numerous times, and every account I create gets locked for "automated behaviour" and I end up having to verify via SMS. Google also gives me the same backwards-ass "automated requests" bullshit whenever I search multiple pages at a time. My only guess is that there are automatic requests being sent out from my PC and every website I try joining always catches me as some sort of fuckin' false-positive. I'm really at a loss here. Is removing a botnet just as easy as reinstalling Windows or is there some other counter-intuitive method to going about this?
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Bump, also I erroneously referred to my computer as a "botnet" when I merely should have said it simply housed a bot. my goodness gracious
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Formatting is a guaranteed way of getting rid of it.
Not a guaranteed way of not getting it again though.
I suggest checking your installed programs, whether or not you're running any keygens, or pirated software ESPECIALLY a windows installation iso.
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windows? i can recommend TCPview, a free program that shows your current active net connections and the programs that spawned them; process explorer, which gives you a list of currently active programs and can google them to find out what they do.
i use avast but i'm not a huge fan of it.
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>>161562
Glasswire is another program you can use. Bandwidth monitoring, beautiful interface and firewall functionality
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>>161561
No pirated Windows here. Dell actually gave me a Windows install disc with the drivers on it (Thanks for your rocking customer service, Dell! Even if you do remind me that I should've bit the bullet and built my own PC for the better part of a year now). Doing a system scan with avast! right now, though I'm not sure how reliable it'll be with every other scan I've done with this thing.
In the meantime, I thought that my router could have turned into a zombie, but I'm not sure if it's the one at fault here and trying to contact my ISP is a pain and a half just to get my login credentials for the sole purpose of resetting my IP – that is if I'm not on a static address.
halp i know nothing about networking
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