If I should consider my computer's security it compromised or not

[dogaman]

I would like to create a main online buy soon, but I am not certain if my computer is compromised or not. I am mainly careful because I do not have a credit card, so I would have to utilize my bank account in combination with PayPal. About two weeks before, I was forwarded to a YouTube survey allegedly giving away 40000 INR gift certificates while I chosen YouTube from my favorites in the browser bar. I guess the appraisal could have been lawful, but I do not observe anything indicating legitimacy.

[arjun rantu]

I right away ran a bug scan with Norton 360, but it turned up no outcome. The subsequent day I utilized my laptop it ran funnily the browser would often freeze up needing me to CTRL+ALT+DEL it and revive a novel one; I as well got many tabs which would just continually hang devoid of ever opening, but later than I started again my laptop, it act usually. A couple of days before, I downloaded the free version of Malware bytes and ran a scan. It did not spot any viruses, but I did observe it just scanned about 300,000 files while Norton 360 scans about 600,000. I am not well-known with MWB, so I am hesitant if that is correct. I have up till now to do any scans in safe mode. For that stuff, I do not even know if MWB or N360 function in safe mode. I have not observed any troubles since that occurrence, but I am still scared I could delicately be impure. The thing that actually troubles me is that I was forwarded from my favorites; I did not mistype the address or pursue an awful link from another website or anything like that. Am I in the obvious and being too suspicious? Any assist you can provide would be respected.

[Pabloa]

Did you complete the survey form? Chances are it was just a scam trying to get your cell phone number, email address or credit card information, quite than an effort to download malware. But you can not at all take anything for settled. You could as well scan with the free version of SUPERAntiSpyware, which is one more decent on-demand scanner same to Malware bytes'. If all of your scans are spotless you are possibly good enough. Still, it would not harm to keep an eye on your bank account for some days later than your transaction. Be certain to seem for small amount transactions which are sometimes utilized to confirm an account devoid of drawing interest to the illegal access. I don't suppose you require being suspicious, just careful. The file counts that are given by a variety of scanners differ violently, so no problem there.

[dogaman]

I filled out the survey because I was hesitant at the time if it was a lawful or not. The just things it asked for was my initial name and my email address. Not anything which would increase any instant red flags like my social security number? I did not think any of the information was that dangerous therefore I was not too scared about filling it out. I have not observed any additional spam in my account than the common amount. I have as well seemed at the items sent out from my account just to observe if my account was stolen and utilized to spam, but all the items in there are my own.

[addie]

Many people utilize the free versions of Malware bytes and SUPERAntiSpyware as on insist scanners to check up on what the Norton product may fail to spot. They all have their own engines with dissimilar specialties and the programs as well have their individual names for malware. While you have the program fresh it up, it does place the files into quarantine and if you discover you have a trouble after that, you can all the time take it out of quarantine. You can as well update the program and attempt a scan another time with it and observe what it finds.