Please note that a malware program is not your regular application, and (at least most of the time) you cannot remove it via Control Panel.
However, if you have really been infected with malware, you might have to work a little bit harder to restore everything back to normal.įirst, you should invest in a licensed security application to scan your system and detect all the malicious files present. After all, you can fix that with a simple password reset. In the unlikely event of malware infection, the account lock is actually the least of your worries. The account lock imposed by Linksys might be annoying, but please understand that it also protects you and many other users from malware proliferation. How to mitigate the damageĪs we have already established, if you know how to reset the password, that’s the first thing to do when you know your account has been hacked. Since the Oski malware is also available for sale, it is hard to say who is exactly using it for the Linksys Smart Wi-Fi hack, as there might be several owners of this malware.
This malware is created to collect and steal personal information like passwords, crypto-wallet cookies, registry credentials, and so on. Needless to say, clicking the Download button downloaded not the app but a malicious EXE file that eventually downloaded the final payload – Oski stealer.