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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: mclovin on September 22, 2012, 11:35 pm

Title: WhATs bEST 2 DO wHEN aTTACk By Virus's plz help
Post by: mclovin on September 22, 2012, 11:35 pm
Last couple days i have been hit with lots of  nasty virus's ,

 #Found Luhe.Sirefef.A,      seems to be the main one !!!

tryed lots of anti/virus/malware /scan software which detects most of it and says that it has removed the threat
But it just keeps popping up .

I really wanna make sure my computer is nice a clean what the best thing to do and use ?

I have backed up all important info in case i got wipe the drive which i think is what im going to hear.
If so please can some one explain a little on best software to use ect.. or a different way to kill these fuckers >:(

hope some1 can help  :)



 

Title: Re: WhATs bEST 2 DO wHEN aTTACk By Virus's plz help
Post by: xenon on September 23, 2012, 01:00 am
Start by running a Malwarebytes full scan in safe mode with networking.  Just search mbam and it should come up.  You can also try Combofix but that is a powerful, last resort kind of program that can seriously mess up your system if done improperly.  There are also many websites which will provide you personalized assistance removing viruses (via a forum).  They assign a virus removal expert to work on your case and tell you how to get the appropriate information off your computer.  Haven't used one of these sites in a long time but make sure to only use free ones, if anyone tries to charge you for removing a virus, move on. 
Title: Re: WhATs bEST 2 DO wHEN aTTACk By Virus's plz help
Post by: BlarghRawr on September 23, 2012, 06:32 am
Start by running a Malwarebytes full scan in safe mode with networking.  Just search mbam and it should come up.  You can also try Combofix but that is a powerful, last resort kind of program that can seriously mess up your system if done improperly.  There are also many websites which will provide you personalized assistance removing viruses (via a forum).  They assign a virus removal expert to work on your case and tell you how to get the appropriate information off your computer.  Haven't used one of these sites in a long time but make sure to only use free ones, if anyone tries to charge you for removing a virus, move on.

Personally speaking, I would never trust a machine again after it has been infected by a Trojan such as this. In my view, the only thing to do is to nuke it from orbit and do a bare-metal install.

Guru
Care to elaborate for someone too lazy to do their own googling?

Edit: Okay, I did some googling and I still didn't get an answer. Just a whole bunch of typo-laden bullshit, and exactly no answers about why the virus is supposed to be bad.
=====The following might just be conjecture=====
Anyway Guru, I have to disagree with you about tossing the machine. The most aggressive virus will fuck with the hard-drive in a very direct way to try to hide itself, and of course we've all heard of rootkits and MBR-viruses...

None of those are actually that hard to clean off, last I checked. The first step is to consider that your OS is now bunk and accept the need for a reinstall. Also a good idea to format the drive, of course. But it's not like a virus can run when it's not an "active computer file", so even a quick-format works on most viruses. Then there is the MBR problem, of course. With an MBR-virus... still cleared by the format, really. Same with rootkits. A few viruses will actually change up your partitions... that's just a re-partitioning to fix, I'm pretty sure.

And that covers all of the broad-stroke viruses. Anything else that can squeeze into a computer in a way that won't be fixed by a format/new hard drive, is very specifically targeted to the hardware in such a computer.
=====Conjecture-end=====

But... seriously. Guru, the only thing that shouldn't be trusted is the hard drive, at most. And it's a rare virus that can get through the hard-drive in a way that formatting won't fix.

Unless I've missed recent developments in the virus-coding scene or something, I suppose. As far as I know, the above should be accurate.
Title: Re: WhATs bEST 2 DO wHEN aTTACk By Virus's plz help
Post by: mclovin on September 23, 2012, 01:53 pm
Cheers guru  and others :)

done some homework but wanted to hear what guy's thought?
 
 guna nuke the system now and get my friend to put new operating systems on it and all drivers ect..

ill see you on the other side !!  8) 
 

Title: Re: WhATs bEST 2 DO wHEN aTTACk By Virus's plz help
Post by: mclovin on September 27, 2012, 11:13 am
DBANed  it took 36 hours but running like new ;]