Comments on: Malware Ruined My Day http://tampa-bay-sailing-blog.com/archives/277 Sailing The Tampa Bay Area and Beyond Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:31:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: RumHead http://tampa-bay-sailing-blog.com/archives/277/comment-page-1#comment-235 RumHead Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:03:55 +0000 http://tampa-bay-sailing-blog.com/?p=277#comment-235 Sounds exactly what happened to me. Restore points had vanished, destroyed Panda, etc. I don't see how this malware is even tolerated by whatever agency regulates the net. It should be trace and blockable I would think. Sounds exactly what happened to me. Restore points had vanished, destroyed Panda, etc. I don’t see how this malware is even tolerated by whatever agency regulates the net. It should be trace and blockable I would think.

]]> By: Capt Bill Battersby http://tampa-bay-sailing-blog.com/archives/277/comment-page-1#comment-234 Capt Bill Battersby Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:38:49 +0000 http://tampa-bay-sailing-blog.com/?p=277#comment-234 I feel your pain. I was attacked by the same malware. It zipped right through McAfee. Here are a couple of additional items: - It DELETED "MRT.EXE" which is Microsoft's "Malicious Software Removal Tool" which gets automatically updated each month via windows update. - It destroyed system restore points prior to the day before it showed up (I have used system restore to counteract promiscuous malware before.) - It corrupted AdAware so that it would not run at all. My solutions: - I clicked off the Wifi button on my laptop to stop the info-flow from my system. - I ran system restore. - I copied MRT.EXE from my desktop system to a USB Flash drive. - I ran MRT on my laptop from the Flash Drive and it found & deleted the malware. - I logged back onto the net and also downloaded Windows Defender. One additional thing: the settings on MacAfee were totally altered by this stuff. If they ever get hold of the 'holes that continue to write & introduce this stuff, they need to take them "on tour" of large arenas around the country. The first 1000 people through the turnstyles all get a free box-cutter, and 30-seconds face time with the jerk. - Nuf 'Sed. I feel your pain. I was attacked by the same malware. It zipped right through McAfee.

Here are a couple of additional items:

- It DELETED “MRT.EXE” which is Microsoft’s “Malicious Software Removal Tool” which gets automatically updated each month via windows update.

- It destroyed system restore points prior to the day before it showed up (I have used system restore to counteract promiscuous malware before.)

- It corrupted AdAware so that it would not run at all.

My solutions:

- I clicked off the Wifi button on my laptop to stop the info-flow from my system.

- I ran system restore.

- I copied MRT.EXE from my desktop system to a USB Flash drive.

- I ran MRT on my laptop from the Flash Drive and it found & deleted the malware.

- I logged back onto the net and also downloaded Windows Defender.

One additional thing: the settings on MacAfee were totally altered by this stuff.

If they ever get hold of the ‘holes that continue to write & introduce this stuff, they need to take them “on tour” of large arenas around the country. The first 1000 people through the turnstyles all get a free box-cutter, and 30-seconds face time with the jerk.

- Nuf ‘Sed.

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