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Re: Beware of Clipboard Virus!
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DYING_S0UL
on 10/12/2023, 16:21:39 UTC
If a virus has been detected, reinstalling your device is the most appropriate choice to clean everything. As OP experienced, it's possible that the antivirus really didn't detect the virus until we realized when it was connected to a crypto wallet. and the situation is just waiting for us to be careless.
Nope, reformat is the best thing to do if there's a potential that you've downloaded a virus together with an app, that's the only way to remove the virus and be sure that reuse of the computer is clean slate. Virus don't go away just because you've deleted the file that it came with because some of them install themselves somewhere that's different from the destination of the file that they've been with.
By reinstalling he may have only meant installing windows freshly. But yes your are correct. Reformatting the hard disk the only best thing that can ensure you that the virus isn't there anymore. Because you can't detect it when using windows normally. BTW I wouldn't tell this virus is a virus. A virus replaces malicious codes into the original codes, basically making the system unstable or unusable. But in this case, it doesn't do anything or damage anything, it just replaces the address. What a genius piece of virus/malware man, really genius!!! Shocked. The person who made this could have made something good but instead he have chosen evil.