Hello, I am Lrtzeh, im a noob on computers and im very scared about my computer as it is really good and if it is broken I wont get another one.
So i booted onto my pc to watch some youtube like i normally do… then this popup in the bottom right of my screen saying that Avast blocked skype.exe from contacting a website…
Literally a little before this was happening, the same thing was happening but with svchost.exe every 10 - 15 seconds. It had a 3 minute delay then now im seeing skype.exe contacting what looked to be the same website. im not 100% sure but i will get pictures and scan logs asap.
On skype my friend told me he had a copy of nexus (music thing) that he was willing to give to me. i accepted it of course and the next day my pc hasnt been noticbaly slower. I usually shut down my pc before i go to school, so if that nexus thing was a virus, it could of settled. It has only started to happen the next day when I rebooted it. I tried scanning the files svchost and skype.exe but it says “no threat found”. i havent been able to get a picture of the warning and im running full scans now… just posting this right now as i want help immediatly. sorry for bad grammer i wanted to rush this out.
I’ve also downloaded this animating desktop program i found on youtube. I never trust anything on youtube as it is so easy to put viruses in downloaders like mediafire. When i scanned the file, it said “no threat found” but i really didnt trust it and i deleted it through recycling bin. I know that recycling bin doesnt delete the file completely but I didnt run it with or without admin priv. What im thinking is that I got an MIM (man in the middle), idk but my friend told me that people could intercept downloads and transfers through internet and insert coding that you wouldnt know about. Also if someone could tell me since im here, can mp3 files get infected by malware? I download a lot of songs and if they can get infected then mabye that is the case.
I have been looking at other forum posts about the same problem but i got so lost trying to figure out what everyone was saying.
as i have been typing out this post… i havent seen the warning once, which really scares me. as i said i will def send pics and scan logs right away.
Thanks for reading through this hope that someone can help me with my problem.
Update Full scan has completed, no threat found from avast.