Bad News If You Downloaded HWMonitor OR CPU-Z Late Last Week

A Very Bad Six Hour Window

If you downloaded anything from CPUID on April 9th or 10th, programs like HWMonitor and CPU-Z, and are seeing some odd behaviour on your system we have some bad news.  For a brief six hour period on late Thursday night and early Friday morning hackers gained access to the site and replaced the links to that software with random malicious links.  The attackers did not gain access to the actual installers, they remain safe, instead they were modifying the download links and directing visitors to their own malware ridden versions of tools like HWMonitor and CPU-Z,

CPUID have since kicked them out and the links now go to where they should.  This seems similar to the hack which ruined the day of Filezilla users a while back, and like that attack tries to remain mostly in memory to hide it’s activity.  If you think you might have been one of the unlucky few doing installing one of those tools you can try a few scans but you might be better off just reinstalling Windows to ensure your safety.