Is this normal? Black window pop up.

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Tommynew

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Yesterday i was watching a video at dailymotion and suddenly a black window pop up, says something and close.
It was so fast i couldt see what it says.
Its something like a dos window like something is beeing instaling or adding to the reg?
Any suggest?
Thank you xd.
 
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nubbsauce
Well honestly, those scare me. Any time a CMD prompt pops up when you didn't run it yourself, usually means that another program opened it and ran a code through it. Sometimes its normal, sometimes its fatal. I can't tell you what it was by your description alone, if you had only saw a little bit of what it said I would have an idea where to look.

As always when something weird happens, take precautions. If you have a firewall or anti-virus, update it and disconnect from the internet, then run a scan. If you dont have either, I would recommend downloading Malwarebytes from: https://www.malwarebytes.org/

It comes with a free trial and pretty much catches everything.

Let me know what you find.
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Well honestly, those scare me. Any time a CMD prompt pops up when you didn't run it yourself, usually means that another program opened it and ran a code through it. Sometimes its normal, sometimes its fatal. I can't tell you what it was by your description alone, if you had only saw a little bit of what it said I would have an idea where to look.

As always when something weird happens, take precautions. If you have a firewall or anti-virus, update it and disconnect from the internet, then run a scan. If you dont have either, I would recommend downloading Malwarebytes from: https://www.malwarebytes.org/

It comes with a free trial and pretty much catches everything.

Let me know what you find.
 
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Tommynew

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Ok im on it.
Thank you very much.
Ok. i got
5 registry keys
PUP.Optional.GetNow.A,
PUP.Optional.GetNow.A,
PUP.Optional.GetNow.A,
PUP.Optional.GetNow.A,
PUP.Optional.Softonic.A,
And 2 files
PUP.Optional.GetNow.A,
PUP.Optional.Softonic.A,

I tried to resume the log, if you need the entire log tell me. But that is all the alerts.
The pc is just formatted so there is no too much things.
 
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nubbsauce

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Yeah, Malwarebytes is a beast!

PUP.Optional.GetNow.A it’s technically not a virus, but it does exhibit plenty of malicious traits, such as "rootkit" capabilities to hook deep into the operating system, browser hijacking, and in general just interfering with the user experience. The industry generally refers to it as a “PUP,” or potentially unwanted program.

The PUP.Optional.GetNow.A infection is used to boost advertising revenue, as in the use of blackhat SEO, to inflate a site’s page ranking in search results.

Just quarantine those and you should be golden. If the box still appears however, let me know. You may need to try a different approach. But if this fixed your problem, please select me as the solution. :)
 
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No problem! Glad I could help you! By the way, I would definitely buy a license for that once your trial runs out. It uses almost no resources, and it catches EVERYTHING. It was the best 20 bucks I have ever spent and I have used McAfee, Norton, BitDifender, AVG, AVAST!, WebRoot, you name it, I've tried it. All slowed my computer down and didn't find everything.
 
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