Virus Writers Should Be....

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Bullspit
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Nuke it all and reinstall.

It can be very difficult to remove all vestiges of a really massive or vicious infection. It is sometimes better, and often faster to format the drive and reinstall your operating system.

Even better is to have a restore system setup so you can format and recover your operating system and basic software set.

And I think your ideas on treatment of virus writers is too kind by far.
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Big +1 on MalwareBytes. I ran their free version for a long time, then wound up buying the pro version. Works well, and gives real time protection.
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Highspeed wrote:Long time since I had a virus on the PC - so I hope this is still relevant - I got rid of it with a free tool called Hijack This, and another related program I can't remember the name of - something like Combox or Combobox ?

They may no longer be free, or may be obsolete :|

Good luck.
ComboFix, perhaps?
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Cybrludite wrote: ComboFix, perhaps?
Yep, that's it. Virus came from me stupidly using IE to view a web page that wouldn't format properly in Firefox.

Page was hosted by some free webspace provider ( *ahem* Tripod *ahem* ) - drive by download, virus.

I reckon I used to be in one of the highest risk browsing groups. Not pRon surfers ( I've seen enough of that stuff to last me a lifetime thanks ) but folks who enjoy reading about crazy peoples attempts to make pulsejets, rocket go-carts and improvised semi-military technology in their garages. Real " Hey, hold my beer and watch this " projects.
They tended to be hosted on the free webspace providers, the free webspace providers didn't give a shit who they rented banner space to as long as they got paid...

I NEVER use IE anymore. It's just asking for trouble. Adblock and NoScript are essentials IMO
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Highspeed wrote:They tended to be hosted on the free webspace providers, the free webspace providers didn't give a shit who they rented banner space to as long as they got paid...
Third party ad resellers, like Google Ads and Project Wonderful, have made this kind of attack a major headache, even from supposedly "clean" sites - One of the worst times I got hit was from Fanfiction.net.
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The IT guy where my wife works had the same problem as we do, so he set up a thumb drive with anti-virus software and gave directions for a fix.

Now to look online for a horse whip, just in case I ever meet a virus-writer.
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MarkD wrote:The IT guy where my wife works had the same problem as we do, so he set up a thumb drive with anti-virus software and gave directions for a fix.

Now to look online for a horse whip, just in case I ever meet a virus-writer.
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did somebody just say "rocket go karts?" :ugeek:


Great. Just great. There goes my day. Completely lost my concentration. :shock: :o :lol:
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You lost YOUR concentration, I've now read everything on the web about Turbonique and I've decided to re-implement my redneck chemist method of making concentrated H2O2 :)
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Highspeed wrote:You lost YOUR concentration, I've now read everything on the web about Turbonique and I've decided to re-implement my redneck chemist method of making concentrated H2O2 :)
Buy your H2O2 supplies while you can. It will soon be restricted as an explosives precursor, along with acetone and a number of other useful chemicals which I probably have in the garage.
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