cmd.exe // malwarebytes

[fairmaiden]

I got an alert from malwarebytes that said that there was a trojan called ''cmd.exe'' in my laptop. So naturally I thought ''isn't that command prompt'' and I was confused. However, I quarantined it and deleted it. Somehow I feel as though it wasn't actually cmd; it was probably just named that by the person who created the virus so I wouldn't notice it.

My question is, what would the virus have done to my laptop? I haven't noticed any change; everything seems to be running smoothly. The only thing that's stopped is the fact that every few hours or so my wifi would cut out and say ''limited access'' (but I assumed that was a widespread problem as loads of others with windows 8.1 reported the same thing). Thankfully it doesn't do that anymore. But yeah, what would the virus have done to my laptop?

[CosmicNoodle]

Chances are it was syp ware, watching what you do, what sites you view, what you use your computer for, maybe accesing your webcam so people can watch you.

All you need to know is it's gone and everything is ok. But people somewhere probably know everything about you now.

[fairmaiden]

Chances are it was syp ware, watching what you do, what sites you view, what you use your computer for, maybe accesing your webcam so people can watch you.

All you need to know is it's gone and everything is ok. But people somewhere probably know everything about you now.
are you actually serious ): windows defender didn't pick anything up a few weeks ago but malwarebytes did. i thought windows 8 defender is supposed to find spyware?

[CosmicNoodle]

are you actually serious ):

Very, chances are if it's not there to break shit, it's there to spy on you.

Chances are it's been looking at what yoiur doinjg, or watching you throught a web cam.

[fairmaiden]

Very, chances are if it's not there to break shit, it's there to spy on you.

Chances are it's been looking at what yoiur doinjg, or watching you throught a web cam.
so how can i find out when the virus was installed?

[CosmicNoodle]

so how can i find out when the virus was installed?

Might have been able to if it was still on the computer, and your Anti Virus may still have it in a log file somewhere, but it'd be hard to find out and useless to know, it's best to just forget it.

[fairmaiden]

Might have been able to if it was still on the computer, and your Anti Virus may still have it in a log file somewhere, but it'd be hard to find out and useless to know, it's best to just forget it.
but how can I forget it if they've got everything about me stored on their computers lol

[CosmicNoodle]

but how can I forget it if they've got information about me stored on their computers lol

The same way you forget you have homework due it, you think about it, realise it doesn't matter, and do something else and stop caring.

[fairmaiden]

The same way you forget you have homework due it, you think about it, realise it doesn't matter, and do something else and stop caring.
uh ok then

[Abhorrence]

Okay the whole spyware sounds creepy as hell tbh, I watched a bunch of short films and read some stories of people spying through webcams.

[NickTheStar]

The worst it can do is learn what Google already knows.

[Plane And Simple]

From here on let's stay on topic, please

[fairmaiden]

The same way you forget you have homework due it, you think about it, realise it doesn't matter, and do something else and stop caring.
Okay the whole spyware sounds creepy as hell tbh, I watched a bunch of short films and read some stories of people spying through webcams.
The worst it can do is learn what Google already knows.

Somehow I don't think the virus was actually running on my system; Windows Defender didn't pick it up the first time (yet apparently one of it's main goals is finding spyware), and it wasn't doing anything to my system at the time. Hopefully it was just downloaded and dormant instead of executed and active.

[CosmicNoodle]

Somehow I don't think the virus was actually running on my system; Windows Defender didn't pick it up the first time (yet apparently one of it's main goals is finding spyware), and it wasn't doing anything to my system at the time. Hopefully it was just downloaded and dormant instead of executed and active.

If it was noticed, it was doing something. A closed and non running file wouldn't be picked up.

[fairmaiden]

If it was noticed, it was doing something. A closed and non running file wouldn't be picked up.
Apparently Malwarebytes picks up all malware, including dormant files so I should be safe.

[StoppingTime]

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