Scary malware/virus!

How come we have to rely on combofix and malwarebytes to clean the system or prevent the infection? Av software haven't responded too quickly.
 
I had this at work on my machine, which is strange as I'm careful about what I'm browsing on work hardware.

I gave the machine to IT, they said they'd cleaned it then a week later it came back so I cleaned it myself and it's been fine since. I did the old safe mode and Malwarebytes combo.
 
Scream said:
How come we have to rely on combofix and malwarebytes to clean the system or prevent the infection? Av software haven't responded too quickly.
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Well our repair departments booked in a good 60-70 past 2 weeks, ive only done about 20 myself and most of the pcs/laptops had norton 360 or mcafee. So it just prooves that both while there at the top are clearly at the bottom in terms of protection.

Ive reached a point where im just telling our insured (pay monthly) customers have it and just give them a disc with combo fix to run because its made our workload thru the roof!

Sadly combofix and malwarebytes still have not updated there offline rules via there websites yet, they both require online updates.... ive run it without the online updates and it still works but my gut tells me its better to have the latest up to date versions when running it otherwise it may just come back !
 
PiKe said:
Hmm, ok thanks.

Maybe I was thinking of Windows 7.
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Works fine on xp/vista/win7, I run it daily several times a day for a living lol

The techys at work always comend me for bringing in combofix tool saying it really does work and ask me where I got it from.... I tell them I googled it :p
 
Col_M said:
I gave the machine to IT, they said they'd cleaned it then a week later it came back so I cleaned it myself and it's been fine since. I did the old safe mode and Malwarebytes combo.
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you mean a week later you re-infected your machine with the same virus.....
 
Also had this on a colleagues personal PC.

Googled for a key to "Purchase it" it then went away and stopped running.
Ran Malwarebytes & a few others

= Job Done :)
 
This is why I use firefox, adblock and noscript... its not the first time 0day ad hijack has got past pretty much everything - I remember it happened to guru3d's ad provider awhile back
 
HighlandeR said:
Sadly combofix and malwarebytes still have not updated there offline rules via there websites yet, they both require online updates.... ive run it without the online updates and it still works but my gut tells me its better to have the latest up to date versions when running it otherwise it may just come back !
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Download the definitions on a clean machine and copy them across.
 
fluff said:
Download the definitions on a clean machine and copy them across.
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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?.
 
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