Scary malware/virus!

HighlandeR · 10 Mar 2011 at 07:38

Meatball said:
Adblock is a god send, not only does it block&hide adverts it also prevents all the **** that comes with them!

yeah its odd been looking for ages for a decent pop up blocker and didnt wanna pay ££ for it lol so just gave up. Now can surf a lot safer

HighlandeR · 10 Mar 2011 at 07:42

Draeger said:
How do you do that, out of interest?. D/L the online updates and then copy them that is?. Are they downloaded to an accessible folder somewhere?.

very good question just checked my malwarebyes folder and cant see any database type files no moddified files either cos I updated today even...

How would one find the latest combofix updated files also....

Its a real shame combofix and malwarebytes dont release offline definition updates every day if not every week at least, just a headache to run updates daily lol

PapaLazaru · 10 Mar 2011 at 15:59

My sisters laptop has got infected and she reckons she can't do anything on it. Now she is technically poor so I am posting her a USB stick with rkill and mbam on it. She should be able to run both from the stick so I assume this will work for her?

LeJosh · 10 Mar 2011 at 16:15

I'm using Adblock Plus and Flashblock on Mozilla right now and have been using Hotmail. No sign of this Malware here. Using MSE too.

KIA · 10 Mar 2011 at 17:30

Draeger said:
How do you do that, out of interest?. D/L the online updates and then copy them that is?. Are they downloaded to an accessible folder somewhere?.

rules.ref

* XP,Windows 2000, 2003: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
* Vista, Windows 7, 2008: C:\ProgramData\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

I'm not sure the same thing can be done with combofix. I can't remember if it patches itself, it may just be a case of making sure you have the latest executable from the official site.

Duke · 25 Mar 2011 at 16:51

Quick heads up that I came across another version of this. In addition to the usual things, it hid the contents of the User folder, so all the desktop icons, start menu, documents etc disappear. It also stopped the wall paper being changed. Nothing that can't be corrected but does take a little longer than before.

PapaLazaru · 25 Mar 2011 at 17:26

Rather oddly, my sisters laptop is ok now. It disappeared. :confused:

linktoinsanity · 25 Mar 2011 at 20:29

Stoned_SpaZZZ said:
XP is soooo bad!

My dad got it on Windows 7 which I had to fix. So no, it's not XP only. :rolleyes:

My sisters laptop has got infected and she reckons she can't do anything on it. Now she is technically poor so I am posting her a USB stick with rkill and mbam on it. She should be able to run both from the stick so I assume this will work for her?

Yeh should do the trick. RKill is very useful, but obviously wont remove the virus permanently by itself.

Duke · 30 Mar 2011 at 17:52

Yet another variation of this one. This times its named "E-Set Antivirus 2011".