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| Trojan Virus Dealt with! | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 1 2009, 11:33:45 AM (261 Views) | |
| pokeplayer984 | Jun 1 2009, 11:33:45 AM Post #1 |
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Yes, that's a new Pokemon!
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I'm not sure how it happened, but I had to deal with a rather nasty Trojan this morning. Here's the deal with it. I'm not sure how I got it because the ONLY thing I've downloaded are some pictures off photobucket. I guess it was a hijacking Trojan of some kind. (Plus the only other places I've been are this site, YouTube, ScrewAttack and my e-mail. (Making sure to get rid of the untrustworthy stuff without looking at it, thank you very much.)) Anyways, what it did was that it infected the "system 32" file and a few registry files. This stopped me from having internet access, thus making me unable to update. I then decided to take action and go into Safe Mode with Networking. After that, I was able to update, and Malwarebytes took care of the rest. It wasn't able to find it before the update, but after that, it was able to detect it and clean it. Also, since I update my stuff weekly, what we're looking at here is a brand new Trojan outbreak. Update your arsenal guys, or you won't have internet access. Well, that's what I wanted to report. See ya later! |
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| DarkHououmon | Jun 1 2009, 11:40:30 AM Post #2 |
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"Be prepared, Snappy boy. Your luck has run out..."
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Losing internet access isn't really new when it comes to malware. I have already been aware that some malware, such as some of the latest rogues, will lock down the computer so badly (not just losing internet access, but other functionality) that there are few options left on how to deal with the threat. |
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| pokeplayer984 | Jun 1 2009, 11:53:39 AM Post #3 |
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Yes, that's a new Pokemon!
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Oh yeah, I almost forgot, here's what the report said of exactly what it infected so you guys can know what to look out for:
The memsweep2 files apparently. Keep an eye out, guys.
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| DarkHououmon | Jun 1 2009, 12:05:28 PM Post #4 |
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"Be prepared, Snappy boy. Your luck has run out..."
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Memsweep2 is associated with Sophos AntiRootkit apparently. http://www.threatexpert.com/report.aspx?md...7078d8c5ccb79d8 |
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| Kor | Jun 1 2009, 01:27:16 PM Post #5 |
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Sounds nasty. Glad you managed to get it cleared up and nice of you to inform folks here and what they could do. |
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| Petrie. | Jun 1 2009, 03:13:57 PM Post #6 |
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GOF Founder
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Thanks for the logfile. I was going to ask for it if you hadn't posted it later. |
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| pokeplayer984 | Jun 11 2009, 09:23:03 AM Post #7 |
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Yes, that's a new Pokemon!
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Ugh! I don't know what's going on but system32 got infected with a Trojan again. I haven't downloaded anything since the last time I cleaned it. Then again, my brother has reinstalled and used Limewire as of late. -_- |
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| DarkHououmon | Jun 11 2009, 10:37:17 AM Post #8 |
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"Be prepared, Snappy boy. Your luck has run out..."
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Yeah, it could be something your brother downloaded. |
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| pokeplayer984 | Jun 12 2009, 12:12:01 PM Post #9 |
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Yes, that's a new Pokemon!
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Well, good luck telling him to stop with Limewire. He's addicted to downloading stuff with it.
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