I had one hell of a mystery on my hands the other day. A client called me and said she had a blank screen every-time she booted up her Windows XP computer. I was pretty busy, so I told her I’d pick it up and work on it over the weekend. I just figured it [...]
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I ran across 2 rootkits this week that hid inside of Mouse.drv (in Windows\System32). Both PC’s had CPU’s pegged to 100% from 2 processes running at 50% each. The processes were svchost.exe and services.exe. I tried to run GMER and Combofix in safemode, but neither would finish their scans. Eventually I had to use my [...]
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Every couple of months I like to let people know what I’ve been using for free malware removal , so here’s my current list of software and utilities that remove malware effectively and (more or less) safely: (note: my usual readers and subscribers probably already know about this list, it’s for the new people visiting [...]
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[phpbay]anti-virus, 2, “”, “”[/phpbay] As far as I can tell you should NOT use Combofix on Windows Vista and Windows 7. I’ve been doing some pretty extensive testing with Combofix in VMware and my VM’s were corrupted about 50% of the time (unbootable). I’ve really only used Combofix on Windows XP 32-bit to get rid [...]
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Rogue Anti-Virus is the #1 piece of malware that I see on a weekly basis. While they’re easy for me to remove they are not so easy of the casual user to remove. There of course many applications that find and remove rogue anti-virus applications however there are times where you might need to manually [...]
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I got into a little discussion on our Microsoft Security Essentials forum about MSE’s RAM consumption. It seems that most people really focus on RAM usage as being “a problem” for almost all Anti-virus applications; however IMO CPU is what everyone should be concerned about. If your AV is spiking your CPU too often THEN [...]
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Well I am not sure what specific information will be needed to explain my configuration, so let me know if more is needed. First off, I have a Linksys WRT54GS which has a built in firewall, on top of that I have Norton Internet Security on my Windows XP sp3 Laptop, which has the heuristics [...]
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