Personal Recommendations for Malware cleanup

[BC]

Hi

After a long interval, I recently had to clean up a couple
of infected PC's, both secretarial stations. One was
infected by going to a bad website with IE and another
was infected by the son of a lawyer doing something in
regards to a music download site. The first PC ended
up being thoroughly infected because the secretary was
afraid to tell anyone what she did. The second one a
bit less so. I was amazed at how much work it took/is
taking to clean them up, especially the first one, using
Kaspersky, F-Secure, LSP-Fix and so on. For the second
one, the secretary tried downloading and installing the
trial version of Norton 360 on her own. That caught a
bunch of things but not all. I tried using the new F-Prot
on it as a test, and let it run overnight, and while that
caught a few more bugs, there is still at least one pop-up
bug remaining that I suspect is using LSP. I will finish
things up tomorrow.

I'm getting concerned with how nothing seems able to
thoroughly clean an infected PC anymore automatically --
things seem to require more and more manual effort,
including running things like LSP-Fix and HijackThis.

Have you guys found any do-it-all programs you tend to
currently recommend to infection-prone friends and such?
I know prevention is the best medicine, but licenses
expire, glitches occur, and some programs, like Norton
360, will just stop working without notice (it has some
sort of update bug.) Thanks in advance.

-BC

[Leythos]

In article <1184856002.112441.13720@j4g2000prf.googlegroups.c om>,
callmebc@gmail.com says...
> Have you guys found any do-it-all programs you tend to
> currently recommend to infection-prone friends and such?
>

Only download software you can validate as uncompromised - in the case
of non-vendor site you have no guarantee that the files are unmodified
or uncompromised. Anyone providing a link to a non-vendors site with a
direct download should not be trusted, the vendors sites are the safest
place to download their application.

No person of sound mind would download files from a hack site that
requires a password to access the unknown files when they are available
directly from the vendors.

Always remember - only download files from Trusted Sites.

The following links will take you to vendors sites for Spy Ware / Ad
ware removal tools and also for Antivirus tools. After you install any
of these applications and update them, run them in SAFE MODE to allow
them to properly clean your system.

First, make sure that your Java is updated to the latest version:
http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp

These sites are for downloading Anti-Malware and Anti-Spyware tools, in
order that I would use them myself:

Dave Lipman's tools:
Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

AdAwareSE can be found here:
http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

SpyBot Search and Destroy can be found here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

SmitRem.exe by Noahdfear's SmitFraud, SpyAxe, SpyFalcon, removal tool
http://noahdfear.geekstogo.com/click...click.php?id=1
--
Leythos - spam999free@rrohio.com (remove 999 to email me)

Learn more about PCBUTTS1 and his antics and ethic and his perversion
with Porn and Filth. Just take a look at some of the FILTH he's created
and put on his website: http://www.webservertalk.com/message1907860.html
3rd link shows what he's exposed to children (the link I've include does
not directly display his filth). You can find the same information by
googling for 'PCBUTTS1' and 'exposed to kids'.

[Jeanette]

Stop using IE, use firefox with the no script plugin for the default web
browser. Stop using Outlook Express email client and use Thunderbird
and turn off java script.

Use a good antivirus, anti spyware, and firewall.

Don't open attachments unless the source is known and your expecting it
and then scan it first.

Stay away from any Porn sites or warez web sites.

Don't download any free antispyware programs without doing a search
first to find out if they are legit.

Don't open ecards or anything with an .exe extension you get or any
microsoft patches sent in your email they don't patch that way.

BC wrote:


> Hi
>
> After a long interval, I recently had to clean up a couple
> of infected PC's, both secretarial stations. One was
> infected by going to a bad website with IE and another
> was infected by the son of a lawyer doing something in
> regards to a music download site. The first PC ended
> up being thoroughly infected because the secretary was
> afraid to tell anyone what she did. The second one a
> bit less so. I was amazed at how much work it took/is
> taking to clean them up, especially the first one, using
> Kaspersky, F-Secure, LSP-Fix and so on. For the second
> one, the secretary tried downloading and installing the
> trial version of Norton 360 on her own. That caught a
> bunch of things but not all. I tried using the new F-Prot
> on it as a test, and let it run overnight, and while that
> caught a few more bugs, there is still at least one pop-up
> bug remaining that I suspect is using LSP. I will finish
> things up tomorrow.
>
> I'm getting concerned with how nothing seems able to
> thoroughly clean an infected PC anymore automatically --
> things seem to require more and more manual effort,
> including running things like LSP-Fix and HijackThis.
>
> Have you guys found any do-it-all programs you tend to
> currently recommend to infection-prone friends and such?
> I know prevention is the best medicine, but licenses
> expire, glitches occur, and some programs, like Norton
> 360, will just stop working without notice (it has some
> sort of update bug.) Thanks in advance.
>
> -BC
>

[Gaz]

BC wrote:
> Hi
>
> After a long interval, I recently had to clean up a couple
> of infected PC's, both secretarial stations. One was
> infected by going to a bad website with IE and another
> was infected by the son of a lawyer doing something in
> regards to a music download site. The first PC ended
> up being thoroughly infected because the secretary was
> afraid to tell anyone what she did. The second one a
> bit less so. I was amazed at how much work it took/is
> taking to clean them up, especially the first one, using
> Kaspersky, F-Secure, LSP-Fix and so on. For the second
> one, the secretary tried downloading and installing the
> trial version of Norton 360 on her own. That caught a
> bunch of things but not all. I tried using the new F-Prot
> on it as a test, and let it run overnight, and while that
> caught a few more bugs, there is still at least one pop-up
> bug remaining that I suspect is using LSP. I will finish
> things up tomorrow.
>
> I'm getting concerned with how nothing seems able to
> thoroughly clean an infected PC anymore automatically --
> things seem to require more and more manual effort,
> including running things like LSP-Fix and HijackThis.
>
> Have you guys found any do-it-all programs you tend to
> currently recommend to infection-prone friends and such?
> I know prevention is the best medicine, but licenses
> expire, glitches occur, and some programs, like Norton
> 360, will just stop working without notice (it has some
> sort of update bug.) Thanks in advance.
>
> -BC

One, unless the person can be relied on to make sure she keeps up on her
windows updates, consider firefox. For anti virus, AVG is fine, also, avg do
an anti spyware product which i have found to be excellent.

An alternative to avg spyware, would be superantispyware. Keep a copy of
smitfraudfix at hand as well for the many variants of this nasty piece of
vermin.

The free versions of avg antispyware and superantispyware are adequate but
lack the automatic scheduling of scans of their paid for versions.

Gaz