im normally quite careful with regards to my laptops and pcs and look after them quite well but somehow i had a lapse in judgment and downloaded a file i was linked to from this forum a while ago, cant mind what it was but its still haunting me. ive ran virus and malware scans,system fix scans...

My home PC was playing up this morning and I tried to restore a backup but it failed. Restarted and couldn't access my home network and I then noticed that some of my dropbox files were renamed with a .??elec extension. I opened another file and it was a ransomware message. I immediately pulled...

If you have downloaded or updated CCleaner application on your computer between August 15 and September 12 of this year from its official website, then pay attention—your computer has been compromised. CCleaner is a popular application with over 2 billion downloads, created by Piriform and...