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Identifying Malware Using The Task Manager

By malwarekilla on November 4, 2009 in Anti-Malware HowTo

Here’s a question that I get a lot of via email, twitter and youtube – “Matt, can you tell me how I can identify malware using the Windows Task Manager?” Sure, but you must understand that using the task manager to identify malware is just one part in the malware identification and removal process. The [...]

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Muliple RunDLL32.exe’s in Task Manager? That Dern Conficker…

By malwarekilla on October 22, 2009 in Post Malware Cleanup

I ran up against a little issue in a small 10 person office that sorta stumped me for a few hours. At random times during the day client pc’s would spawn dozens of rundll32.exe processes and effectively render the pc useless (it sucked up all the ram). The cause? These boxes were infected with Conficker [...]

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Malware Removal Guide For 2009 Q1

By malwarekilla on January 31, 2009 in Announcements, Anti-Malware HowTo, Anti-Malware Tools

Step-By-Step Malware Removal Guide for First Quarter of 2009 (free software edition) Required Software: Malwarebytes Antimalware (free), SuperAntiSpyware (free), Avira AntiVir (free), Threatfire (free), Sandboxie (free) Download Sites: filehippo.com, threatfire.com Software Descriptions: Malwarebytes Antimalware (mbam) = On-Demand Scan Anti-Malware. SuperAntiSpyware (sas) = On-Demand Scan Anti-Malware Avira AntiVir = Realtime Antimalware Threatfire = Real-time Behavioral Analysis The steps [...]

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