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You may have malware or an unwanted extension/app on your devices. Here's an article from MalwareTips: https://malwaretips.com/blogs/brvscr-shoppinghelp-net/

That’s an internet‑messaging protocol, not how service providers typically send 2FA codes to phones.

Yes — recommended order is FIDO2 (hardware/webauthn) > TOTP/push authenticator apps > email > SMS. SMS 2FA is weaker because of: 1) SIM‑swap or phone theft, 2) third‑party data leaks, and 3) SMS interception.

Try quick or advanced diagnostics to check for obvious hardware problems: https[:]//www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000181163/how-to-enter-the-built-in-diagnostics-32-bit-diagnostics-supportassist-epsa-epsa-and-psa

From: You should see those word-pronunciation videos. The same words keep getting longer and longer videos.

If you mean the ID "jbkfoedolllekgbhcbcoahefnbanhhlh" (the first two letters swapped), that's the ID for Bitwarden, which is most likely okay; you DON'T want to block it!

Once you uninstall McAfee, you may want to clear Edge's notification permissions (search "Allowed to send notifications"); if unsure, clear everything and start over. Also clear the browser's data, i.e.:

I regularly use the ESET Online Scanner. It doesn't install adware, but the program itself frequently promotes the full ESET antivirus package. It seems to be one of the more thorough options, along with the Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool.

For those interested, here are a few examples: https://sublime.security/blog/ics-phishing-stopping-a-surge-of-malicious-calendar-invites/

Here's an example (of a spam email, not the calendar invite): From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> (email partly masked) Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>

It would be more helpful and instructional if you post the email image (appropriately redacted) along with the From/Reply-To headers. Based on your description, it sounds like you received a Google Calendar invite, but received it in your Outlook client, so the event wasn't added to either...

Thanks for the tip. I have a custom view with the Event Source set to "Windows Defender," so I probably have all the WD events; this particular error 2001 never appeared in my log. Here's a 2010 entry: The cloud intelligence updates may or may not have something to do with these settings:

BTW, it also looks like Reliability Monitor also shows a more complete list of definition updates:

For Firefox, it's better to use a primary password because the passwords are stored on disk encrypted with that primary password, which your computer presumably doesn't have until you enter it. Unfortunately, once you enter the primary password, the key to decrypt stays in memory until the...

I don't know what's wrong, but this kind of consistency problem would point to some corruption or glitch. The first fix I'd try is SFC and DISM. If that doesn't work, I'd check the options LLMs suggest to see if they've been used before in forum posts — for example, ask Brave: "Threat detection...