RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread John Aldrich
, 2011 4:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center TeamViewer has free version as well. Works great. Tammy -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 4:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus

Re: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread Roger Wright
the company to spring for a logmein account.. *sigh* -Original Message- From: Tammy Stewart [mailto:copper...@personainternet.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 3:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center No Problem John, Figured autoruns might be easier

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread John Aldrich
...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 7:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center Because none of the AV/antimalware companies can keep up. I have had quite of few of these fake AV infections show up on my desk lately on peoples home laptops. A couple of them involved

Re: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread James Rankin
by the hour, not much) that a user could get (re)infected. -Original Message- From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 7:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center Because none of the AV/antimalware companies can keep

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread John Aldrich
Unfortunately this is a machine not joined to the domain. I'll see about setting up ClearCloud on the user's laptop. -Original Message- From: Tim Evans [mailto:tev...@sparling.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 11:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center We used

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread Chad Leeper
...@personainternet.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 5:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center Hehe. Completely understandable. On the teamviewer page downloads additional downloads/for the instant customer there's jut the client app rather than the full install. (you would need

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread David Lum
Thanks for this Roger! It never ceases to amaze me the little tidbits I find from this list... Dave -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 6:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Center www.join.me is a free

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Any service that has a FAQ page that states: Top 10 FAQs Our top 10 goes to 11. Gets at least a second look from me. -sc -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 9:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center

Re: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread Roger Wright
! It never ceases to amaze me the little tidbits I find from this list... Dave -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 6:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Center www.join.me is a free alternative to logmein. Roger

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread John Aldrich
Kewl...thanks! I'm *definitely* going to have to make a list of these! -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 9:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Center www.join.me is a free alternative to logmein. Roger

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread John Aldrich
Great! Thanks, James! The user has overnighted me his computer. Hopefully Ill have it cleaned and back to him ASAP! From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 9:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Center Try this http://winhelp2002

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread Ray
+1 for teamviewer. -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 7:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Center I learned it from here as well. It's from the LogMeIn company. Of all the remote access tools out there, I

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread John Aldrich
Subject: RE: Antivirus Center +1 for teamviewer. -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 7:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Center I learned it from here as well. It's from the LogMeIn company. Of all the remote

Re: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread Jonathan Link
-Original Message- From: Ray [mailto:rz...@qwest.net] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 10:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center +1 for teamviewer. -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 7:02 AM To: NT System

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread John Aldrich
Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 4:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Center Any idea how it was acquired?   On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:16 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: FYI, I just uploaded the infection to Sunbelt. Tammy

Re: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread Jonathan Link
: Thursday, May 05, 2011 4:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Center Any idea how it was acquired? On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:16 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: FYI, I just uploaded the infection to Sunbelt. Tammy advises that this appears to be a new

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread John Aldrich
Subject: Re: Antivirus Center Understood.  I knew there was a lag in the infection and you being able to work on it.  Makes the ability to identify the infection source more challenging.   On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:26 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Only clue I have

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-05 Thread Erik Goldoff
, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 4:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Center Understood. I knew there was a lag in the infection and you being

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Was it run in safe mode? From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Antivirus Center I just had a remote user infected with Antivirus Center fake antivirus. I had him try to run Vipre Rescue, but it

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
Yes. Safe Mode, command-prompt. John-AldrichThread-Count From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 2:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center Was it run in safe mode? From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr

Re: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread RichardMcClary
If VIPRE is installed, then call! Tammy knows the entire boot process, and she can probably figure out what is loading what. Some bugs disable the task manager, the CLI, and the ability to boot into SafeMode. Note that some of these bugs will scamble the registry, so no applications can run

Re: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread Gary Slinger
: Antivirus Center Yes. Safe Mode, command-prompt. John-AldrichThread-Count From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 2:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center Was it run in safe mode? From: John Aldrich

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread Free, Bob
Is there a no-frigging-signature mode? Yes but it is apparently not persistent despite frequent admonishment :-( From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Center Is there a no-frigging

Re: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread RichardMcClary
Can you run the task manager w/o the bug blocking it? How about cmd? Windows Explorer (NOT IE!)? Although a bug whacked the registry, we had one where we could see what process was starting when something triggered the fake AV window. We noted the name of the process, then killed that

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
Subject: Re: Antivirus Center If VIPRE is installed, then call!  Tammy knows the entire boot process, and she can probably figure out what is loading what. Some bugs disable the task manager, the CLI, and the ability to boot into SafeMode. Note that some of these bugs will scamble the registry, so

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
Sorry... forgot to turn it off. I have to go in and manually select plain text every time I post to the list. From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Center Is there a no-frigging-signature

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
as to why Vipre Rescue didn't find it and whack it... From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Center Can you run the task manager w/o the bug blocking it?  How about cmd?  Windows

Re: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread Mike Sullivan
, May 04, 2011 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Center Can you run the task manager w/o the bug blocking it? How about cmd? Windows Explorer (NOT IE!)? Although a bug whacked the registry, we had one where we could see what process was starting when something

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread Erik Goldoff
, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center No, Vipre is NOT installed. User has McAfee

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread N Parr
to point in time where Virus wasn't installed and scan with other products to get rid of infected files. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 1:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center Richard

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Center Did you try Malwarebytes as well? http://vipre.malwarebytes.org/ On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:58 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Richard, this is an end-user we're talking about. :D I found instructions on bleeping computer on how to get rid

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center I've never had luck with Viper detecting, let alone stopping, any of these fake AV's over the years. It's really my only big issue with the product. Probably had a dozen or so home and work users get a variation and Viper's failed every time

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread Tammy Stewart
Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center No, Vipre is NOT installed. User has McAfee AND AVG on there... I know that McAfee gets installed by default with Acrobat Reader

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
Thanks! Will do! 'Preciate it, Tammy! :D -Original Message- From: Tammy Stewart [mailto:copper...@personainternet.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 3:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center Hi John, Log onto a different account -- that one is normally profile

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread Tammy Stewart
: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 3:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center Thanks! Will do! 'Preciate it, Tammy! :D -Original Message- From: Tammy Stewart [mailto:copper...@personainternet.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 3:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center No Problem John, Figured autoruns might be easier to walk users through -- You might also be able to remote access the box in safe mode with networking too. (I know shipping costs are deadly) Tammy -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread Sam Cayze
Subject: RE: Antivirus Center Well, he's already shipping it out, and he's frustrated, I'm frustrated... wish I could get the company to spring for a logmein account.. *sigh* -Original Message- From: Tammy Stewart [mailto:copper...@personainternet.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 3:32

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread Martin Blackstone
If it was used or refurbished they would buy it. -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 1:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center LogMeIn is free. Or has a free option. In the very limited cases where I

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
Probably. :D -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 4:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center If it was used or refurbished they would buy it. -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread Erik Goldoff
PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center LogMeIn is free. Or has a free option. In the very limited cases where I will actually provide tech support, this is the main requirement I have. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread Tammy Stewart
TeamViewer has free version as well. Works great. Tammy -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 4:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center Probably. :D -Original Message- From: Martin

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center TeamViewer has free version as well. Works great. Tammy -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 4:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread Tammy Stewart
:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center TeamViewer has free version as well. Works great. Tammy -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 4:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread Mike Gill
-Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center I've never had luck with Viper detecting, let alone stopping, any of these fake AV's over the years. It's really my only big issue

RE: Antivirus Center

2011-05-04 Thread Tim Evans
Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center Because none of the AV/antimalware companies can keep up. I have had quite of few of these fake AV infections show up on my desk lately on peoples home laptops. A couple of them involved rootkits running from the MBR. Unless the AV software checks