Twitter Updates for 2010-02-10

I uploaded a YouTube video — Sup with the Avast Sandbox? http://youtu.be/1fll-iRLJ_4?a #
I uploaded a YouTube video — avast 5 free final http://youtu.be/qVxlZOoUhV0?a #

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How to Add Dr Web’s CureIT to a UBCD4WIN Disc?

aquascapeusa emailed me a question yesterday regarding Dr. Web’s cureIT and UBCD4WIN integration.
Hi,
Thanks again.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and the YouTube videos.
You briefly touched on adding a plug in (Dr. Webb Cure It) to UBCD4WIN on your follow up to Windows Defender.  This was the video where you talked about removing the rootkit with Cure [...]

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Avast 5 Pro Sandbox Broken

I was working on my Avast 5 pro pre-video testing when I got this lovely message below.

For some reason I can’t launch Internet Explorer 8 sandboxed. The context menu just says “Run Outside the Sandbox” and if I try to add a process manually I get the message above.
I’ve tried this on 2 different [...]

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YouTube Q and A: tfz.exe tf0.exe are they viruses?

Question:
tfz.exe
tf0.exe
are they viruses? i think they are because i never seen them before. it’s also using a lot of memory.
how would i get rid of them?
Answer:
They look extremely suspect to me since these are not typical windows files nor any exe I’ve seen (they look randomly named).  I would upload these to virustotal.com and see [...]

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YouTube Featured Questions and Answers

FYI – I’m going to select a few questions each week from my youtube PM’s and I’ll be posting them on the blog along with my answer.
Here’s an example of  questions I’ll answer – “What’s the best way to get rid of adware?” or “I keep getting redirected, what can I do?”
Here’s an example [...]

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Combofix Not As Effective As It Once Was

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed but for the last 2-3 weeks Combofix has been more or less….a waste of time, in fact I just had to resort to my UBCD4Win on every malware appointment.  The latest round of rootkits seem to be evading it rather well.
Also, I’ve really had to rely on [...]

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Sandboxie Beta Supports 64-Bit OS

I’m not sure how I missed this one but apparently Sandboxie is now supporting Windows 64 Bit Operating Systems.  You can download Sandboxie from here:
http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?DownloadSandboxie
If you want to see how Sandboxie can protect you from malware check out my Sandboxie Review.  Sandboxie is one of the best applications  for keeping your PC malware free.
Part1 – [...]

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Internet Security 2010 Rogue, Winlogon2.exe and Other Fun Things for this Week…

I’ve been pretty busy this week with malware appointments and thought I’d share this weeks “note to self stuff”…

A client calls me and says that they have a fake antivirus (internet security 2010 rogue) and now they can’t login to Windows
When I arrive I load my UBCD4WIN and immediately:

Replace Atapi.sys.
Replace Userinit.exe.
Load the host registry and [...]

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