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From: Paul on 20 Apr 2008 11:14 John the WebTV Man wrote: > Well, at 2am this morning events dictated a new approach as things had > gotten to the point that the PC would no longer boot windows before > freezing. I threw in the towel....wiped and reformatted the hard drive > and did a clean install of Win2K Pro. All seems OK now...I need to > install Win2K SP4 [a 130Mb download] and then all my protective > stuff...AVG 7.5, Ad-Aware, Comodo and SpyBot S&D. When that is stable > and working OK, then I will install all the applications software. > > The problem was definitely Malware of the "Downloader" or "Backdoor" > Tojan type that spoofs the Windows "SMSS.EXE" and takes over the PC. > From the GOOGLE search, it is detectable but apparently not "fixed" by > many [if any??] anti-virus programs. It displays a variety of symptoms > including the stall/freeze of the Mouse and Keyboard as I first saw. > None of the protective applications I had installed [AVG 7.5, Ad-Aware > and SpyBot] detected it on full scans...only AVG came up with periodic > "Threat Alerts" regarding trouble with the "SMSS.EXE" file. Here's > hoping my problems are all behind me now. > > Thanks for all your thoughts, emails and postings....it was a great > comfort to know that there are others interested enough in a [my] > problem to offer their help. > There are some antivirus products, with a 30 day trial. When I got some malware from a motherboard web site, I downloaded and used Kaspersky. It removed the malware just fine. When the 30 days were up, I purchased the product at a local store. It is a slightly annoying product, but seems to work, as I haven't had any trouble since. There are also web sites that offer advice, such as Castlecops. Various sites now, have a forum where you post the contents of a Hijack-This log, and they suggest a tool to do removal with. This is another page, with some advice. The multi_av thing apparently uses more than one on-line scanner, to check a system. When I clicked the link in the second section, it downloaded an ~800KB file. The rest of the info it would download, would be done on the fly. http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html In casual reading, the only thing I've seen them quit on fixing, was a machine with a not-completely-detected rootkit. Generally, if the malware is of a recognized and researched type, there'll be some kind of fix for it. This site does comparisons of the commercial AV packages. http://www.av-comparatives.org/ I presume this one is checking how many of the known malwares are detected. http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2008_02.php Detecting new malware - comparison of heuristic detection properties. http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2007_11.php Paul
From: CBFalconer on 20 Apr 2008 18:35
John the WebTV Man wrote: > > Well, at 2am this morning events dictated a new approach as things > had gotten to the point that the PC would no longer boot windows > before freezing. I threw in the towel....wiped and reformatted the > hard drive and did a clean install of Win2K Pro. All seems OK now > ... I need to install Win2K SP4 [a 130Mb download] and then all my > protective stuff...AVG 7.5, Ad-Aware, Comodo and SpyBot S&D. When > that is stable and working OK, then I will install all the > applications software. Sounds like you should be considering Linux. Try Ubuntu. No viruses, no cost, almost guaranteed portable to your machine. For a free CD try <http://shipit.ubuntu.com> -- [mail]: Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net) [page]: <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net> Try the download section. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** |