First if at all possible TURN off the computer and put the infected drive on another system that is not infected. If for one reason or another you can not you should cosider one of the cdrom or floppy based recovery systems and an extra drive. You should preform recovery to a different filesystem then
On systems that are infected by Win32/Mywife@E.mm, BlackWorm, W32.Blackmal.E@mm, WORM_GREW.A, W32/Nyxem-D, Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi, the malware is intended to permanently corrupt a number of common document format files on the third day of every month. February 3, 2006 is the first time this malware is expected to permanently corrupt the content of specific document format files. The
ICQCHK Trojan is installed by VideoCodec3_05b.exe to help you play “funny” movies. Now the Trojan’s web sites are closed. Related files in the %SysDir% folder (usually c:\ Windows\System32): kaboom.dll iewatch.exe A0003016.exe VideoCodec3_05b.exe sysmon.exe msx.dll gtrack.dll ietool[1].exe ietool[2].exe ietool[3].exe Removal Instructions Download special software: RegRun Reanimator Unzip it to any folder on your hard drive. *
You may want to print out or make a copy of these instructions before starting, because you will not be able to connect to the internet during most of this fix. Go to Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs and remove the following programs, if found: NewDotNet Then using Windows Explorer, delete
AdwarePunisher – rogue antispyware (1, 2) uses flawed, inadequate detection scheme; same app as AdwareBazooka, AdwarePunisher, HitSpy, RemedyAntiSpy, SystemStable, & The SpyGuard. You may want to print out or make a copy of these instructions before starting, because you will not be able to connect to the internet during most of this fix. Go to
Bleeding Snort released an updated list of known malware-related domains yesterday, up to 9,400 entries now! For those of you employing DNS black holes, proxy-based filtering, or doing other general research of malware based on domains, you should check out this exhaustive (and exhausting!) new list. I frequently rely on this list to match against
Much of the computer security industry acts like spyware is immaculately conceived. Somehow it just appears on computers, we are led to believe, and supposedly all we can do is clean up the mess after it happens, rather than prevent it in the first place. I disagree. Now, we all love Google. I use Google’s
Key loggers are a particularly nasty type of malware, because they are created to monitor and record keyboard activities. They are often designed to capture the victim’s interactions with a login form of some kind, frequently targeting logon credentials for banking websites. NetSpy, identified by this spyware scan, is known to be able to log
A specially crafted HTML document can cause Internet Explorer to skip the kill bit check. This means that any ActiveX control that has been disabled solely through use of the kill bit may still be used by Internet Explorer. A kill bit is a registry setting that prevents Internet Explorer from running the corresponding ActiveX
