(Nevermind, ALL HAIL SYSTEM RESTORE!)

Sorenson

Early this morning I got hit by a pretty nasty hijacker, that AV Security whatsit. and had to kill the power since it was actively going after Task Manager. Three hours and a sweep by Spybot and MSE later, and I'm supposedly clean...except that now I can't connect to anything. Rather, I can't - my computer thinks otherwise, and says it's got a connection when I check the appropriate sections. Steam will launch without giving me the initial "Steam cannot connect to the internet" business it gives in a total disconnection, but any serious attempt to go anywhere leads nowhere.

The bugs in question were Win32\FakeSpyPro, CVE-2009-3867, Tracur.C and Bamital.E. They didn't actually go after any system files directly, at least according to MSE, just a bunch of temp stuff, and the only thing more permenant that was affected was overlay.xul in Chrome (which I don't even use).

Googling around didn't give me much of a lead, so hopefully one of you folks might be able to report something.

EDIT: Oh yeah, Windows 7 64,

Paladin

Hooray for periodically backing up your system state


Now if only more people would do this

Synthesis

System Restore has come a long way. Not everyone knows this, unfortunately.

ronya

Change all your passwords and assume anything stored has already been uploaded to a server in Moscow. If you stored any CC info accessible using said passwords, call your bank.