Guest FromTheRafters Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 "Andy Medina" wrote in message news:ekMFkD7vKHA.5008@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > An important step in cleaning out unwanted stuff > (virus/trojan/worm/etc) is to turn off System Restore. I think that most of the time that this was recommended was just to keep antivirus programs from detecting the program files that were deleted by the cleanup routine. So many folks were posting in the groups all worried about malware being detected in "_restore" whatever it was and being unable to deal with them directly. I assumed that this was done as a purging *after* successfully removing the malware. (some people conveniently left out the part about re-enabling it afterwards heh heh heh) Was there *another* reason to disable system restore *prior* to cleaning up from an infestation? Quote
Guest Comgeek Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 Hello, "Antivirus Soft" is a rogue spyware virus wich is a fake program using the word ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE to trap users. DO NOT PAY if ANTIVIRUS SOFTWAREE popup on your computer asks you to buy this program. Remove ANTIVIRUS SOFT from your pc as fast as possible. For removal tools and manual removal instructions to remove antivirus soft, see this post http://darfuns.com/spyware-removal/antivirus-soft/ Quote
Guest David Kaye Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 "David H. Lipman" wrote: >Having the System Restore cache working (many forms of malware disable or > corrupt it) >allows one to have a fall back position when cleaning malware. I agree 100%. The thing is that if the malware is really bad it won't allow you to restore back far enough. However, in most cases the malware has not actually destroyed all the old restore points. You can restore by copying the files manually. Case in point was Monday when I had a customer where the restore program would only go back 1 day. When I looked at the directories manually I found there were about 50 restore points. I went back 3 weeks and restored and the malware didn't load. I then ran MBam and cleaned out the crap. I recommend to people to never never NEVER turn off System Restore. In fact, give it at least 5% of disk space. You want enough clean registry copies as you can get. Quote
Guest David H. Lipman Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 From: "Comgeek" | Hello, | "Antivirus Soft" is a rogue spyware virus wich is a fake program using the Hello you are a moron spammer who doesn't listen. "Antivirus Soft" is a rogue anti malware but it is NOT a "virus". I D I O T ! -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp Quote
Guest FromTheRafters Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 "Comgeek" wrote in message news:E01E757B-7932-4970-BE18-02EB5CE69E6C@microsoft.com... > Hello, > "Antivirus Soft" is a rogue spyware virus Not a virus! Also, I believe, not spyware. Can you back up your claim that this is "spyware"? Quote
Guest Max Wachtel Posted March 12, 2010 Posted March 12, 2010 On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:04:01 -0500, Rebecca Chung wrote: > "Jordon" wrote: > >> Rebecca Chung wrote: >> > For future reference, I found this link useful: >> > http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-antivirus-soft >> > >> > It looks like I have to do a bunch of other stuff before I can use the >> > Malwarebytes software, so I'll try this once I have access to another >> > computer and I'll report back. >> >> Have you tried running Malwarebytes with Windows in Safe >> Mode? >> >> BTW, it would be beneficial if you'd quote the post you're >> responding to. Or at least the relevant parts of it. >> >> -- >> Jordon >> . >> > > That's what I'm going to do (but Safe Mode with Networking). > However, Antivirus Soft is not letting me download anything onto my > infected > computer, or run any programs I have, so I'm going to have to download > rkill > and Malwarebytes on a friend's computer later and transfer it with a > flash > drive to my computer... > > Sorry for not quoting properly! > > -Rebecca check control panel/internet options,proxy settings. -- This post was created using Opera@USB: http://www.opera-usb.com Virus Removal Instructions http://sites.google.com/site/keepingwindowsclean/home Max's Favorite Freeware http://sites.google.com/site/keepingwindowsclean/freeware Quote
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