I've got a user's box now that has "securitytools" fake a/v virus. It
deleted malwarebytes from his machine. booted into safe mode to
reinstall malwarebytes. After installation the mbam.exe file was
missing again. I also ran Avast's bart CD and it only found two items,
which did nothing to rmeove the virus. uggh. and this is a machine
used for animation and video work so days of work to rebuild it with
all the software apps.
Bill
I use a three-pronged approach that I keep stored on a
small USB thumb drive that is labeled VIRUS CLEANER...
First, I run Malwarebytes. After Malwarebytes, I run Combofix
(download from bleepingcomputers.com, NOT combofix.org).
After that, I install Avast and have it run a boot-time scan. After
it has booted up again, I run Malwarebytes again.
9 times out of 10, my work is done at this point....
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Matt Cross
mailto: [email protected]
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:31 PM, James Kerr <[email protected]>
wrote:
+1 but run it with the box in safe
mode.
James
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Original Message -----
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.
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