Hey Folks,
I know this is way OT, but there isn't a bunch of smarter people than
those I've met on the MV groups. I hope you'll indulge me and someone
can give me some guidance. A couple of months ago I got invaded by
bitcoin mining malware on my Windows 7 Pro machine. I am always super
careful about what websites I visit, never open email attachments unless
I'm expecting them and verify they are real, and never click on links in
emails, even from people I know. I can usually spot spam and delete it
without even opening it. Despite all my caution it got in somehow.
It got so bad that one morning I got a message that a service had
terminated unexpectedly and Windows had to restart. After restarting, it
gave me a different service error and restarted again. After about a
half-dozen of these I restarted in safe mode and was able to at least
get it running. At this point I had no idea it was malware, but
suspected it was something beyond my diagnostic skills. I sent my
computer in to my service tech, and he called me back and asked why I
was mining bitcoin! I told him I didn't know what he was talking about
and barely knew what a bitcoin was. Anyway, he ran scans and cleanups,
installed Malwarebytes and sent it back. Apparently the visible culprit
is a file called mserver.exe. The trouble is it keeps coming back. It
hasn't shut me down since because I keep stopping and deleting it every
day, but it's obvious that something else is out there somewhere that
recreates the file.
Has anyone been through this and figured out a way to get rid of this
crap permanently? I've Googled it and the only procedure I've seen is
very complicated, and recommended only for the specific poster. There
are websites out there that claim to get rid of it, but Malwarebytes
says they are dangerous and won't let them load.
Please help, anybody!
Charlie Noah
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