Unauthrozed changes to cmd.exe

[Guest Chris Bouquet]

Throughout the day, my virus scanner (Trend Micro) notifies me that it resolved a threat. When I check trend micro, it says it stopped an unauthorized change to c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe. At one point, I created a system restore point and then allowed the change. Some programs repeatedly tried to install ten browsers and extensions on both firefox and chrome which redirected me to other websites that were very shady. No matter what I did, I couldn't uninstall the extensions and eventually had to use the restore point to remove the virus. However, I still get hourly notices from trend mi

 

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