cool.
best bet is to reformat / reinstall.
on boxes like this I am disabling all web access.
if they need something, they can remote desktop or map a drive.


At 01:13 PM 10/8/2009, David W. McSpadden wrote:
>I really like the slave the drive and scan from a clean machine.
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>From: <mailto:[email protected]>wjh
>Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 1:05 PM
>To: <mailto:[email protected]>NT System Admin Issues
>Subject: Re: infected box
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>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...
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>>First, I run Malwarebytes.  After Malwarebytes, I run Combofix 
>>(download from <http://bleepingcomputers.com>bleepingcomputers.com, 
>>NOT <http://combofix.org>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.
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>>9 times out of 10, my work is done at this point....
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>>--
>>Matt Cross
>>mailto:[email protected]
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>>On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:31 PM, James Kerr 
>><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
>>+1 but run it with the box in safe mode.
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>>James
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: <mailto:[email protected]>John Aldrich
>>To: <mailto:[email protected]>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.
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>>John-Aldrich
>>Tile-Tools
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>>From: Len Hammond [mailto:[email protected]]
>>Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:13 PM
>>To: NT System Admin Issues
>>Subject: infected box
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>>Hi people,
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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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>>Len Hammond
>>CSI:Hartland
>><mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
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