@Flexx @Scott @Alexandru_BD
I downloaded Urban VPN (featured on Chrome), but it secretly tried to open some malicious pages. Although they weren’t displayed, I don’t know if Bitdefender blocked those pages or if Urban VPN managed to open them entirely in the background. My notification menu was flooded with Bitdefender alerts.
I immediately ran a quick scan, followed by a full system scan. I then uninstalled Chrome using Revo Uninstaller Pro, ensuring all leftovers were removed, restarted the PC, and reinstalled Chrome. Later, when I opened Brave, the browser displayed a strange message asking about enabling or removing Internet Download Manager (IDM). This was odd because IDM was installed and already disabled in Brave, and I’d never received such a prompt before.
Suspecting malware, I ran another system scan. However, I stopped the scan after 3 minutes and restarted it. The strange part was that the system scan completed in just 3 minutes when it typically takes 17 minutes. Could this be malware?
This was the hidden malicious attack ( insane notifications )
If a system scan is stopped and restarted within a couple of minutes, does it rescan the files that were already scanned in the recently stopped scan?
