+1 but run it with the box in safe mode.

James
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Aldrich 
  To: NT System Admin Issues 
  Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:24 PM
  Subject: RE: infected box


  Malwarebytes.com is your friend. If that doesn't do it, I don't know what 
else to suggest. You could always try booting off a VipreRescue disk and see if 
that cleans it.

   



   

  From: Len Hammond [mailto:[email protected]] 
  Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:13 PM
  To: NT System Admin Issues
  Subject: infected box

   

  Hi people,

   

  I have a client with an infected box. It seems to have the "SafeFighter" 
trojan. Vipre says that it blocked the installation of it but it has pop-ups 
wanting you to register the SafeFighter product to clean it out. It also puts 
up a false "Microsoft Security Center" window telling you that your firewall is 
ON and your virus protection is OFF or non-existent. When viewing the 'real' 
Security Center you find that Vipre is listed and running and the firewall is 
off as the settings dictate as the unit is behind a network firewall. And when 
you visit Vipre it is scanning with no items listed,n and it has two items in 
the blocked area but nothing in the Quarantine or any where else. These pop-ups 
come every few minutes. I would like to stop the pop-ups long enough to back up 
data and flatten the box and install Win7 in a couple of weeks when Win7 is 
released. 

   

  Does anyone have a manual method of removing this rascal? Everything I've 
found on the web is wanting you to buy their product to do it. I may have to 
call Sunbelt to get their method? But Vipre says that it blocked it but 
something is still running. Maybe I'll just reboot and see if it is only in 
memory and the pop-ups go away.

   

  Anyone with thoughts for temp help. I know that a rebuild is the only sure 
way to cleanliness - just not today.


  Len Hammond
  CSI:Hartland
  [email protected]

   

 


 

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