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From: Rick on 24 Feb 2010 12:20 "Lil' Abner" <blvstk(a)dogpatch.com> wrote in news:Xns9D29631A3F9E9butter(a)wefb973cbe498: > > This has been a highly frustrating situation. These people have two > computers running through a router. Since they were spewing spam, the > ISP blacklisted the router. The other computer had quite a bit of > spyware and junk on it, so I copied off all their documents, > reformatted it and put the documents back. She took that computer home > and I have the other one here. The ISP says she is *still* spewing > spam with the computer I wiped and reinstalled Windows in. The one I You just formatted the drive? You didn't wipe the partitions and repartition it? Possibly an MBR rootkit? You might try going to: http://www.gmer.net/ and running GMER to see if it can find a rootkit on the system. Another possibility is in the "documents" you copied over for them. Were they scanned with a good AV program? One that scans ALL files? I've been seeing a lot of infected .wma media files lately that people have been picking up via Limewire. -- Rick Simon rsimon(a)cris.com Include "spam(trap)key" somewhere in the body of any email to avoid my spam filters.
From: Lil' Abner on 24 Feb 2010 21:05 Rick <rsimon(a)cris.com> wrote in news:Xns9D297D5DDF796rlsomewhere(a)69.16.185.250: > "Lil' Abner" <blvstk(a)dogpatch.com> wrote in > news:Xns9D29631A3F9E9butter(a)wefb973cbe498: >> >> This has been a highly frustrating situation. These people have two >> computers running through a router. Since they were spewing spam, the >> ISP blacklisted the router. The other computer had quite a bit of >> spyware and junk on it, so I copied off all their documents, >> reformatted it and put the documents back. She took that computer >> home and I have the other one here. The ISP says she is *still* >> spewing spam with the computer I wiped and reinstalled Windows in. >> The one I > > > You just formatted the drive? You didn't wipe the partitions and > repartition it? Possibly an MBR rootkit? You might try going to: > > http://www.gmer.net/ > > and running GMER to see if it can find a rootkit on the system. OK. Did that. It was clean > > Another possibility is in the "documents" you copied over for them. > Were > they scanned with a good AV program? One that scans ALL files? Yes. Ran David's Multi-AV on it. I've > been seeing a lot of infected .wma media files lately that people have > been picking up via Limewire. No music except a few mp3's. They don't have LimeWire installed. The ISP has unblocked the router. I'll know by morning if it will stay that way. -- --- Everybody has a right to my opinion. ---
From: Brian Cryer on 3 Mar 2010 08:36 "Lil' Abner" <blvstk(a)dogpatch.com> wrote in message news:Xns9D28AB6A08E4Ebutter(a)wefb973cbe498... >I have a computer here that has been blacklisted by our provider because it > was sending out spam email. The ISP recommends using Stinger (among other > apps) to clean it up. So I ran it and when it was finished it did not > indicate that it had found anything. My question is... is there supposed > to > be a report? Could it possibly be that it just fixed it and made no > mention > of it? Seems like I had that happen to me once before and the computer was > clean. Not all malware is classified as a virus, so it might be worth running something like spybot or adaware on your PC and see if that throws up anything. -- Brian Cryer www.cryer.co.uk/brian
From: Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 3 Mar 2010 09:39 Brian Cryer wrote: > "Lil' Abner" <blvstk(a)dogpatch.com> wrote: >> I have a computer here that has been blacklisted by our provider >> because it was sending out spam email. The ISP recommends using >> Stinger (among other apps) to clean it up. So I ran it and when it >> was finished it did not indicate that it had found anything. My >> question is... is there supposed to be a report? Could it possibly >> be that it just fixed it and made no mention of it? Seems like I had >> that happen to me once before and the computer was clean. > > Not all malware is classified as a virus, so it might be worth > running something like spybot or adaware on your PC and see if that > throws up anything. And: MalwareBytes Anti-Malware for home use: http://malwarebytes.org/ SUPERAntiSpyware for home use: http://superantispyware.com/ -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul
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