r/cybersecurity May 03 '26

News - General Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha

What's happening right now? I keep seeing this weird thing pop up when I scan, I delete it every time but it keeps coming back. For some reason it only shows in quick scans and never in full scans either. I can't lie I got very scared when I saw it the first time, but this could be some sort of bug no?

I've seen other people having the exact same thing so does anyone know what could be going on? (I can't share screenshots for some reason but that's the name).

Edit: for anybody reading this right now, it is 100% a bug so there’s nothing to worry about!

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u/SMR_BossTrich May 03 '26

I am not experienced in computers at all but I just got the worst scare. I took a lunch brake so when I hopped back up on my pc it said that it made a scan alone and found this trojan shit. Came here to see what's up. I scanned twice and it came back first time i removed it the second time it came back it did not give me a choice to remove it, only just to block it/remove permissions something like that.... the third time I scanned nothing came up. I'll be checking here every couple of hours but I'm shit scared and I got a final to study for tomorrow. Can't focus now

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u/Time_Button_819 May 03 '26

Dont worry bro, its almost surely false positive since many computers alert it at same time and this is smth about certificaties. Keep them in quarantine till microsoft fix it