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Recently had an incident with a virus on my system and have been running anti-malware in safe mode. The default/surface scans don't show anything typically; the deep scan with malwarebytes pulled and cleared something, and shortly after that, Windows Defender finally showed and cleared something just in its overview. Keep trying to run deep scans with Windows Defender through Cmd and keep getting a kickback when the scan is complete that makes me think it is, in fact, finding something, but can't delete it. Just trying to make sure the PC is clear of malware, however keep recieving the following lines--is the virus still present, and will i have to take it into a shop? C:\Program Files\Windows Defender>MpCmdRun.exe -Scan -ScanType 2 Scan starting... Scan finished. Cleaning started... CmdTool: Failed with hr = 0x80004005. Check [the temp .log] for more information And then the temp log doesnt show anything more insightful than that; if I r

I have Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect VPN 6.2.8-263 installed on two computers, both running Windows 11 24H2 Pro. On one computer, GlobalProtect VPN authenticates and connects with the default web browser: You are redirected to a default web browser to authenticate and connect. On the other computer, GlobalProtect VPN authenticates and connects with "an embedded browser": You are redirected to an embedded browser to authenticate and connect. The embedded browser is somehow failing to let GlobalProtect VPN authenticate and connect. How can I configure Palo

I use Microsoft Voice Access in Windows 11 24H2 Pro, which replaced Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) for Windows 11 24H2 and later versions in September 2024. When I open Microsoft Voice Access (CTRL+WIN+S), it opens in the top bar. That's too much screen space for me. How can I move Microsoft Voice Access into a floating bar or whatever takes less space than the entire top bar? Microsoft Voice Access' top bar: By contrast, Windows dictation takes much fewer screen space:

My Windows PC has bluish accent color of application window titles, my remote PC has red. When frequently switching between them, I can easily tell them apart by color of windows title bars. However, if I open Microsoft Office apps on both PCs, they do not seem to draw a single window detail by the accent color of given computer. I see Excel running in each PC and both have exactly the same color. (If I change their theme in Options, both computers change the theme, because theme setting is synced via Microsoft account.) Similar to distinguishable accent color shown on ordinary windows, can Office apps (connected to the same user account) be made appearing with different colors on each computer?

I recently bought a 1-meter USB-C to USB-C 3.2 data cable, but the router doesn’t work with it. The bottom LED keeps flashing light cyan, and there’s a soft clicking/knocking sound. When I use the original USB-C to dual USB-A cable, the router works normally — three LEDs light up, and I can connect without problems. I’m using an Asus ROG Strix G16 (2024) laptop with two USB-C ports, and the issue is the same on both ports. Has anyone found a USB-C to USB-C cable that actually works with the Puppis S1? Laptop's USB-C ports: 1 x Thunderbolt 1 x USB 3.1/3.2 Gen2 Type-C Update: Router USB-C version is 3.0 (so "USB 3.2 Gen 1" if using new naming - annoying marketing) based on

For a couple of months, netdata on my Linux server (OpenSuSE Leap 15.6) no longer starts. Half a minute after a manual systemctl restart netdata, a systemctl status netdata gives me this: ● netdata.service - Real time performance monitoring Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/netdata.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: signal) since Fri 2025-11-14 16:09:00 CET; 29s ago Process: 28454 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/cache/netdata (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 28455 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R netdata /var/cache/netdata (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 28456 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /run/netdata (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 28457 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R netdata /run/netdata (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 28458 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/netdata -P /run/netdata/netdata.pid -

Git Bash has the ability to press tab to autocomplete a few things, such as file names, folder names, and a handful of git commands. Sometimes, I accidentally press enter before pressing tab, which causes my incomplete command to be submitted, and then tab to be pressed as the first character of the next round. When this happens, Git Bash takes no action for several seconds, sometimes up to 20 seconds. It is certainly still receiving input and not frozen, just not responding to my actions until several seconds later. When this happens, I try the various different kill commands, to no avail. Here are the ones I tried. ESC Ctrl+c Ctrl+x Ctrl+y Ctrl+| Ctrl+\ Of the above, I sometimes get some luck with Ctrl+. It seems almost timing based, where how quick I press that one makes thing short circuit or something, idk. It's a black box to me. Here are my 2 questions. Wh

UPDATE 11/13 Thanks to the suggestion from dave_thompson_085, I was able to determine the source of the port in question by interrogating the cert: openssl s_client -connect 50.0.0.1:51001 -showcerts Which returned this (truncated) response: depth=0 C = US, ST = MA, O = "Arris Group, Inc.", OU = Telco CPE 1234567888, CN = 192.168.1.254 Arris is the manufacturer of my modem (https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/GZ5NVG578HLXV2/6140289.pdf) so this is indeed originating from my modem. However, 192.168.1.254 is not the URL for its management portal. After one google search I discovered that the modem I am using has an inherent and well known backdoor that the manufacturer apparently did not fix (please don’t hack me). I ordered a new modem which will be here tomorrow. I will update thi

Following a recent update (sometime in the last month or six weeks), MS Word will now make some sort of change to any Word document I open, about 30 seconds after opening it (the title bar changes, with the "Saved to this PC" being removed from its text). Version Info: Office 365; Word Version 2509 (Build 19231.20216). O/S = Windows 11 (Windows 10 when I posted the question but I updated to see if that would fix it – it didn't!) No visible change is made and typing Control-Z has no effect. However, when I come to close the document, I am faced with the prompt, "Do you want to save the changes you have made …?" Further, if I make a copy of a file, open it, wait for the 'change' to occur, then save it … and then use the "DiffChecker" program to compare the new file with the original, there is no difference between them! Some of the documents have potential 'fields' (hyperlinks to other documents in t

At work I have a Windows-10 computer and the IT department helpfully blocked all Microsoft sites: thanks Microsoft for so frequent updates that they ate up all our traffic limit, so the IT decided to cut it off completely. How can I install a language pack by downloading it at home or in an Internet cafe? Note: please don't be confused by the mention of the IT department: requesting them to unblock the sites is absolutely not an option. So, for whatever reason that Windows-10 computer has no connection, and will never have it; How can I install a language pack on it?.