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techno2sl |
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General Member Since: Aug 5, 2004 Posts: 2977 Last: Oct 14, 2010 [view latest posts] |
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Category: Software Help Posted: Saturday, May. 8, 2010 04:49 am |
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OK just a heads up for future reference, including a fail safe guide of common sense that worked for me while under attack by Malware/spyware, Trojans and the like:
Well I was talking to sparky on skype and was googling for a MOH loading screen when I thought I found what I was looking for.... boom, all programs suddenly died (apart from skype funnily enough) and lots of errors began appearing. (Obviously fake errors)
I quickly tried to get back onto Chrome to grab AVG but it wouldn't run so sparky gave me a link and I thought I'd try it through the windows browser but copy and paste had been disabled as well. (after typing it in manually it didn't connect).
So I grabbed my MP3 player, connected it to this computer and downloaded a number of programs for a google search (I know, risky) including AVG onto it, connected it back to the now mortally wounded computer (that just happens to have all my maps on it) and managed to drag these new programs to desktop.
rkill.exe - This program immediately finds and kills unwanted programs that are running, it did a very good job and managed to kill about 20 straight away leaving 1.
mbam-setup.exe - After running rkill (very important to do this step by step) I ran this. I did a full system scan which detected a hundred files that it also quarantined and then removed. (Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
Checking Task Manager again I noticed some odd names, DKX.exe was highly suspicious to me so I did a file search and registry search.
The registry came up with 1 find which was inside a new folder that also contained two temporary .dll files. These were in Local Settings/Temp and were Un-deletable.
I installed AVG, ran it, it found the dll straight away, identified it as a back door Trojan and destroyed it. AVG also had to restart my PC which I was obviously worried about but so far it's OK apart from I can't connect Chrome, Steam and IE to the internet.
The worrying thing about this virus was I found a text file after a couple hours of searching buried within a number of directories which had a list of viruses it installed including Trojans, IP tracers, DNS corruption, Phone trace and calls (to new Zealand with the prices), Password Catchers, Credit Card Scanners and so on.
Just wondering now if I really want to risk running the PC or maybe just format the Windows Drive and reinstall while hoping the other more important HDDs are not affected, since it also listed credit card and password catchers should I be more worries, has anyone been affected by these in the past?
Also what's everyones virus checker at the moment, I've tried Kaspersky in the past and now AVG but I'm uncertain of how they weigh in amongst the rest.
- Also as a note, the only thing that appears to work Online is Skype and Steams Friends list- nothing else (no steam news/store etc) |
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Samuel033 |
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foyleman |
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Category: Software Help Posted: Saturday, May. 8, 2010 07:21 pm |
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I use ESET NOD32, the same as foyle. It came pre-installed on my net book. I was really impressed by how light it is (unlike MacAfee, Norton etc that cause your system to run horribly slow). However like foyle said it's not free.
A great free one is Malwarebytes. Unfortunately it doesn't support real-time scanning so you have to do a manual scan every now and then but I am yet to come across a virus that it can't handle. |
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techno2sl |
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General Member Since: Aug 5, 2004 Posts: 2977 Last: Oct 14, 2010 [view latest posts] |
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Category: Software Help Posted: Monday, May. 10, 2010 09:37 am |
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Cheers all I will definitely be taking up some of the virus checker suggestion here.
I've upgrades my system now from a 130gb (windows) IDE with a 500gb SATA and a 250 GB SATA to 2x 500gb SATA (1 with windows) and a 250 gb SATA as a backup.
Currently installing windows and everything is going OK, I feel it's the safest way to be sure of no lasting problems. From now on I shall never use Google to search for anything Medal of Honor |
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