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Antispyware Soft [Malware discussion/ war stories]

FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
edited May 2010 in Social Entropy++
Okay, I got nailed with Malware called Antispyware soft.

Anyone out there deal with this? Having a hell of a time getting rid of it. Got past AVG.


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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    http://www.combofix.org/

    works for me

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    FORTY TWO NO CHANGE THIS THREAD RIGHT NOW YOU FOOL

    DON'T BE WIGGIN YOU SILLY GOOSE

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  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I know H/A but you guys I trust.

    You guys are the best!

    BIG INTERNET HUGZ!!!!

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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    i'd get rid of the part of your post where you talk about illegal things

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  • alternatingAberrationalternatingAberration I am the milk man My milk is deliciousRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    What the hell is with all the people asking for H/A in SE++?

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Yeah

    Does it look like we are a kind and helpful group?

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    have you tried spybot

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2010
    malwarebytes and spybot in safemode

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    a real man defends his computer with his fists

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  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    malwarebytes and spybot in safemode

    Malwarebytes got it.

    Man that was a nasty one. i feel so ashamed, I haven't gotten anything like that in years. This is the first time AVG failed me.

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    thank god for Apple.

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    scarlet st. wrote: »
    thank god for Apple.

    hi5 mac buddy

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  • DodgeBlanDodgeBlan PSN: dodgeblanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I want to devise a virus

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Oh god don't use Combofix. It can fuck a computer up. Does all sorts of invasive shit. Or at least it did, a year ago. They may have redesigned.

    You're probably good if you react immediately with Malwarebyes, spybot and ad-aware.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    DodgeBlan wrote: »
    I want to devise a virus

    to bring dire straits to your environment

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    crush your corporation with a mild touch

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus

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  • bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Faricazy wrote: »
    DodgeBlan wrote: »
    I want to devise a virus

    to bring dire straits to your environment

    that's not called a virus, it's called a record player

    we are the sultans of swing... doo do dooo.. do DOO doo doo

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    you're so unhip

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    bsjezz wrote: »
    Faricazy wrote: »
    DodgeBlan wrote: »
    I want to devise a virus

    to bring dire straits to your environment

    that's not called a virus, it's called a record player

    we are the sultans of swing... doo do dooo.. do DOO doo doo

    Mark Knopfler ^5 !

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  • bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    no way man, it's hip to be square

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Cilla Black wrote: »
    Oh god don't use Combofix. It can fuck a computer up. Does all sorts of invasive shit. Or at least it did, a year ago. They may have redesigned.

    either they redesigned, or you used a "fake" ComboFix. an actual working site and authentic download links are here: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix

    i've been using ComboFix all last month to remove FakeAlert malware infections off school machines. it does the trick.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Microsoft Security Essentials has been doing really well for me lately

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  • Red ZoneRed Zone Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I know a guy who knows a guy who made millions by making malware viruses and then creating programs that destroy the viruses he created

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    you should kick him

    in the balls

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I got hired by a local non-profit to get rid of some spyware one of their employees had picked up.

    It was the nastiest little bug I've ever seen. It was one of those fake antivirus scanners, but it was deep into everything. If you tried to open Internet Explorer, it would instantly close it and open something that looked like IE, but was another part of the virus. If you tried to open task manager, windows explorer, msconfig, a run box, or a command line, it would instantly close them. It completely borked every antivirus and antispyware program I tried to install. For some reason I can't recall, safe mode was useless.

    Eventually, I killed it by opening task manager while windows was still booting up and manually killing the processes as soon as they showed up in the list. After that, I could reinstall the wrecked antivirus programs and go after it normally.

    At the end of it I felt like frigging St. George.

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Yeah my sister got one of those on the laptop somehow and I had to go to localhost and fix a bunch of redirects and shit, so goddamn annoying.

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  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I remember Spy Sheriff or whatever the hell it's called somehow got on my machine, and that damn near killed the whole PC- thank god for partitions and back-ups

    Oh then some idiot friend of mine managed to get a dialler-type-thing that basically tried to shut down the computer if you didn't click on its fourteen-trillion suspicious links

    There was something so reassuring about being able to go "shutdown -a" and then just patiently eradicating every last trace of it

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Oh, and it had some sort of transparent interface that covered the entire screen so no matter where you clicked, you were interacting with the virus instead of the desktop. By mashing windows+D over and over I managed to right click on a desktop icon and redirect it to open msconfig...which the virus instantly closed.

    At that point, I was sort of afraid to turn around in case the virus was standing behind me in the real world.

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  • SpudgeSpudge Witty comments go next to this blue dot thingyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    One of the laptops at work got hit with Antivirus Plus and ave.exe at the same time. They'd pop up, I'd kill all processes/calls/apps etc and two hours later they would pop up again

    Turned out the cdrom.sys driver was infected and kept downloading the rogues. If you got problems like this, check your drivers. If one's been recently modified, remove and replace with one from a different computer. Oh and make the new one read only

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  • Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Avast has kept me safe so far. Dunno much about spy ware and viruses though. Haven't any in years.

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  • DodgeBlanDodgeBlan PSN: dodgeblanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    yeah i don't think i've ever got virused. Probably because I am the best at internet.

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    my mother's computer got hit with a google redirect virus, it was pretty nasty

    dunno how she went a week without noticing that any google search brought her to entirely different pages

    like I'd search for wikipedia, click the link, and it would take me to some fake anti-virus site

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Squall wrote: »
    my mother's computer got hit with a google redirect virus, it was pretty nasty

    dunno how she went a week without noticing that any google search brought her to entirely different pages

    like I'd search for wikipedia, click the link, and it would take me to some fake anti-virus site

    I had that a while back

    I think it was also just the surface indicator of some much deeper problems; I ended up having to to wipe everything and reinstall XP

    None of my antivirus programs caught it; they'd say I was clean when I clearly wasn't; but from time to time I've heard there are some that take over the antivirus programs and direct them to say everything's fine

    Which is pretty fucking insidious

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  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    MBAM seemed to take care of everything. I have been free of all that shit for what seems like near a decade. I have not seen a BSOD in forever, because I like to think I know what the fuck i am doing.

    But apparently something got through.

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  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Oh, and it had some sort of transparent interface that covered the entire screen so no matter where you clicked, you were interacting with the virus instead of the desktop. By mashing windows+D over and over I managed to right click on a desktop icon and redirect it to open msconfig...which the virus instantly closed.

    At that point, I was sort of afraid to turn around in case the virus was standing behind me in the real world.

    Damn son


    A virus so good you think it's actually got a ghost.

    EDIT: Is the idea that I just had because of this post

    Somewhere out there someone's got it, and it was a goddamn labor of love to craft.

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I "fixed" my father's home office computer this christmas by uninstalling Norton and installing Spybot and AVG

    He had it set to run a full scan of the computer upon every startup and startup therefore took about twenty minutes

    the only problem was he was on the paid version and hadn't paid for his updated virus definitions for about two years

    it was starting up and wasting twenty minutes doing a sweep with that caught nothing at all

    so I installed AVG and got rid of Norton and cleaned up maybe thirty trojans and god knows how many small-time infections

    they acted like I had multiplied the fishes or something when I told them I got the computer started up in three minutes

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