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Xiaou2:
Install Sandboxie, run the sandboxed web browser.

Malenko:
rkill, combofix, malwarebytes.

Im a bigger fan of Nuke and Pave but , hey whatever you want.

leapinlew:

--- Quote from: Malenko on September 16, 2011, 09:45:07 pm ---rkill, combofix, malwarebytes.

Im a bigger fan of Nuke and Pave but , hey whatever you want.

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Exactly... once a computer is compromised I never 100% trust it.

Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on September 17, 2011, 12:33:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: Malenko on September 16, 2011, 09:45:07 pm ---rkill, combofix, malwarebytes.

Im a bigger fan of Nuke and Pave but , hey whatever you want.

--- End quote ---

Exactly... once a computer is compromised I never 100% trust it.

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Given that some bios's can be updated outside of a dos-like environment, and through the net, I'm surprised there hasn't been a software-hardware cross-over yet.



--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on September 16, 2011, 08:33:06 am ---
--- Quote from: saint on September 16, 2011, 08:31:50 am ---
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on September 16, 2011, 12:02:52 am ---I've been using MSE for at least a year, and only just a couple weeks ago got something REALLY scary. I wasn't even visiting a porn site. I was looking at a map, clicked a link, then a blank page with a 'click if the page hasn't loaded' link top-left, which I didn't even have time to click, and then....suddenly my task bar was set to default options....!.....and all my bookmarks disappeared. Turned out almost all my files were 'hidden'. I restarted, and I got a BSOD half-way through boot. I ended up having to re-install. After that, MSE found something called Orsam!rts . Nearly all instances were linked to Wolfmame.

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Forgot to mention, a ton of icons on my desktop were set to hidden also.

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yeah I saw a similar one not too long ago on a co-worker's machine. Set EVERY SINGLE ---smurfing--- FILE on the harddrive to system+hidden.

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This isn't that big a deal. It's shocking. And, probably like most everyone else, I went online looking for some global fix procedure or app. Which I did find (this should be obvious to the dos folks) : attrib -s -h *.* -S -D. However, it didn't seem to work quite as advertised.

Of course, Windows already has a feature for this: change the properties in any folder, then Tools>folders options>view, and press 'apply to all folders'. It automatically overlooks system folders. The only thing left was to manually un-hide the Favorites folder.

newmanfamilyvlogs:
Yeah, utterly trivial to fix, but the shock the desktop, start menu, and then root of C being totally blank was pretty jarring.

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