PC Antivirus 2009 Malware

[Rusti]

He doesn’t really use any chat clients like Yahoo, AIM or MSN very often, *never uses P2P file sharing stuff. The only thing I can think is he must be getting it from an ad or something from his surfing. He doesn’t really visit any sites of questionable virtue (he sits in a chair right next to my mother with the computer in his lap of an evening when he’s doing his web stuff). So I have no other theory as to where he’s picked it up.

I don’t *think* he’s prone to indescriminate downloading, but, you know, I don’t ask too much about his surfing habits. I could lecture until I was hoarse and he still wouldn’t hear me.

[Skylover]

I don’t go to any questionable sites or download anything illeagally. I also don’t use any chat clients and still I have been attacked by this four times. The last time I got it, I was looking at some PYO’s on photobucket. I have also picked it up on LiveJournal. I went for a year and half on my computer with no problems whatsoever, and then this came along. Honestly, if anyone knows how to avoid it, I’d love to know. It is not fun to remove.

[siberakh1]

Rusti,

What is the exact name of the program that you are seeing (with extension), and the type of computer he is running (with OS)? PM me and I can try to dig around and find a way to get rid of that for you.

My dad and I use a range of stuff. AVG is decent. I’ve gotten away from using Symantec, just because it’s become such a resource hog and more stuff than ever used to just flies through past it like it wasn’t even installed. I’ve found their more recent versions of their backup software (for servers and the like) to be a bit lacking as well, which is disappointing. The free versions of some things like Ad-Aware don’t offer the same amount of protection as the full blown versions (which do have a cost), just keep that in mind any of you reading this. Right now, we block a lot of programs from ever writing to the registry unless we allow it too, then again, playing around with the registry can be dangerous to your system if you don’t know what you are doing. The one thing we have been seeing lately is an increase in Root-kits. Those are nasty and can be a real bugger to get rid of. My dad has had to re-do his computer at least 3 times because of it. Luckily, he has his computer mirrored, so he can just re-image from one of his backups. Clean computer with almost all of his files (maybe minus a few emails or a recent file) in a couple of hours.

Ugh… I’d never let Geeksquad touch anything of mine. EVER.

Hehe… a coworker of mine doesn’t even run virus protection on his computer. He does everything by port (but then again, he’s a certified ethical hacker and majored in Computer Security, so he knows what he’s doing… I’m tempted to take the classes when they become available next year). Oh, btw, on your message systems, like AIM, Yahoo, etc., that have that ‘invisible’ option, if you know what port number is being used for that feature, it is quite easy to write a script to see who is online on your buddy list, even if they are in ‘invisible’ mode.

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