As the title says, i had left my laptop on hibernate during the night and when i opened it back up the next morning, my wallpaper suddenly changed into a picture of an anime character? There was even a shortcut to the characters Wikipedia and the picture that was used for the wallpaper on my home screen. Am i being hacked? I live with nobody that would pull this type of prank on me. Nobody touched my laptop since last night, what is happening???

  • Furdiburd10@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Download malwarebytes and run a full scan and search for any kind of remote acces software.

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      1 year ago

      Run a windows defender scan, no need to install such pointless software like malwarebytes

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        1 year ago

        MalwareBytes and Windows Defender should not be treated as a binary. Neither one completely supplants the other.

        Defender is fantastic for real-time monitoring and will stop the majority of threats that target your machine. It is, however, not infallible. It can and will miss things and let some threats through, which a MalwareBytes scan will pick up and remove.

        I can’t take anyone seriously who insists that you ONLY need Defender or that you ONLY need MalwareBytes. You don’t technically NEED either, but together they form a much more complete protection system than either one alone.