Windows 10: Spectrum cable botnet warning

My internet provider, Spectrum cable, keeps sending me notifications through the post office that I have botnet malware on my computer.

We have three computers. I ran microsoft safety scanner and microsoft defender on all three and found malware on two of them but not my computer.

Then today I get a popup message from Spectrum on my computer warning of botnet malware just a day after running both the above programs.

So I ran them again and found nothing, again.


Any ideas about this?

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How to connect to Spectrum Hotspots

how do I connect a wireless tablet/PC to Spectrum hotspots. Please include step by step

instructions. I am using win 1o os.

 

How to connect to Spectrum Hotspots

Hi Moses, thanks for your question. I’m Graeme, a Microsoft Community expert and fellow user.

You can connect to a Spectrum hotspot by following the steps outlined in the below Spectrum support article:

https://www.spectrum.net/support/internet/spect...

Thise step-by-step instructions should help you to connect to the hotspot.

If you’re still having trouble, please let me know! Thanks!

Note: Non-Microsoft websites are linked. The pages appear to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised
on the site before you decide to download and install it.

 

security for botnet attack

What a great question.

Once your computer has been compromised, it's over. There's nothing you can do besides formatting your hard drive and starting from scratch. So the key here is to prevent the malware from getting into your computer in the first place.

Step #1 by far is your own awareness. If you're someone who's easily taken in or who has a shaky understanding of technology, it's time to get wise and quickly. Social engineering attacks - where someone is tricked into allowing malware into their
system - are the most prevalent method of attack and also the most successful. Don't become a victim!

Step #2 is to protect your devices (computers, phones, tablets, watches, doorbells, etc.) so that only properly authorized people can use them. How you do this depends on what kind of device(s) you have and how they are connected to the internet. The way
to start is to make a list of everything you have that can connect to the internet, and next to each device indicate how it connects to the internet, e.g., wired or wireless, through a router, cell tower or directly through a modem. Then you'll have to learn
the fundamentals of protecting your devices.

If you were hoping for a simple, three-step process, sorry. And it's about to get worse.

Step #3 is to adopt good security practices for everything you do on the internet. That means, among other things, using strong passwords that are routinely changed, installing security software to protect yourself against attacks from malicious web pages,
and being sure that all your software is up to date with security patches.

As you see, it ain't easy. The people who create these botnets, and other malicious software, use highly sophisticated techniques to attack, so you and I are forced to employ highly sophisticated measures to protect ourselves.

You don't have to be a computer geek to be safe on the internet, but you do need to be aware of the threats that are out there and what you can to to protect yourself. You'll need to do plenty of reading on the internet to get yourself up to speed. Microsoft
has its
Safety and Security Center, which has lots of good information mixed in with (sigh) advertising for Microsoft's products and services. The internet is filled with piles of information about protecting yourself from botnets and other threats coming in from
the internet, and it's all there for you to discover.