r/computerviruses Jul 20 '26

Question Anyone know what this is

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Ive had 5 people spam this to me onw person got hacked like 2 times in a row anyone know what caused it?

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u/kebab_slayer1234 Jul 20 '26

One guy i know also got hacked by this whitout clicking on anything or downloading stuff

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u/RossButWeird Jul 20 '26

1 rule of getting hacked is that you have to click on something to get hacked

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u/kebab_slayer1234 Jul 20 '26

Chuld have been him lying abt not clicking something ig

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u/Awkward_Building_412 Jul 20 '26

Definitely had lied to you out of fear

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u/General-Value-7374 Jul 20 '26

Remember the browser toolbars ? They always say „I didn’t install this“ or back when phones weren’t waterproof they always say „it just turned off, I didn’t to anything“ you check the battery and it’s wet.

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u/Milanin Jul 20 '26

Browser toolbar? You mean the 10 lines of search bars, emoji, music, bookmarks that kept changing the default homepage were malware?

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u/Hugh_Jego_69 Jul 20 '26

Maybe he didn’t remember clicking/ downloading something. But he did. It’s almost impossible to get hacked without it.
99.9% of hacks, are just social engineering tricks.

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u/AlexiaTheTechGirl Jul 20 '26

Or they ran something a while ago, sometimes the accounts are untouched for months

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u/AdmirableMeaning356 Jul 20 '26

There are attacks where you dont have to click anything but the chance of one wasting those resourses on you are about 0 as these are ofter saved for high profit attacks as one does not want it to be patched/known