Hy, When trying to open any word or excel file ( even create new and open ) I got a warning from avast of a virus. It said something of IP 131.253.61.84 . Tracked the IP it said it was from USA . trying to copy/paste into web browser toked me to login page of Microsoft. ??? off course I did not entered my login details but ... strange. Now I am doing a full scan with avast and then will let malwarebytes have a scan . P.s. I think there was also an antivirus that you can put on a cd and did a scan from it;s own operating system . Can't remember name. What do you think !? Am I infected ? ( also .... just to say ... i did download something shady yesterday )
and what does scan return? IP may be where microsoft sends telemetry data, in which case that would not be malicious.
Scan return are negative. What is the best program to search for a key logger? I had my Origin account stolen like 5 years ago . So I need to check for key logger also .
MalwareBytes is my goto scanner of malware and keyloggers and such. ClamAV is a nice and portable application. If you're really wanting to be thorough, you might also try a rootkit analyzer. ARIN does identify this IP as belonging to Microsoft's offices in Redmond, which Bing Maps confirms is an actual place, so I would be inclined to believe this is a legitimate IP. Spoofing is always possible; you are wise to be cautious, but I think this is okay.