We fought that issue with Sunbelt's support for two weeks a few weeks
ago, and are now dealing with the aftermath and finger pointing of it.
Good luck.

 

From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 9:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: New virus trick

 

I was at a seminar yesterday put on by Sunbelt and during a break I had
a chance to talk to one of the presenters and told him of a recent
malware incident I'd cleaned up. He'd never heard of such a trick before
so I thought I'd bring it to y'all's attention so you can be on the
lookout for it. Basically it was the same old malware that's been going
around with the Antivirus Pro sort of stuff, but the twist was that even
using Malware Bytes we were not able to get rid of it. After I was
poking around a bit, (I don't recall why I was looking at the root of
C:, but I was) I noticed a batch file in the root of the C: drive that,
when I opened it and looked at it, it created a bunch of scheduled tasks
to re-download the malware/adware. I wised up and deleted that file,
then went into the Scheduled Tasks and deleted all the malware-created
scheduled tasks. Then I was able to successfully clean the stuff out!

What really got us was that Malware Bytes would clean it, then say it
needed to reboot to finish, and then as soon as we came back, the fake
antivirus was right back there. What I believe it was doing was
re-downloading itself from the internet each time we cleaned it. So,
anyway, if you guys ever have a problem like this, it wouldn't hurt to
check the scheduled tasks!

 

  

 

 

 

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