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Virus/Malware Virus /Rootkits Thread, Work In Progress
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netmatrix
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 Jun 22 2018, 02:26 AM
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QUOTE(JustcallmeLarry @ Jun 22 2018, 02:09 AM) Guys today I got fooled by a pop up ad it was asking me to tick a box to prove I am a human and I click it which it lead me to another link that ask me to download something but by then I already knew I made a mistake and I closed it. I have already run Malwarebytes free scan & Avast free scan. Both says I have no virus. Wta you guys does this mean I am save or is there more things I should do? My laptop is a old window Vista laptop. If you phobia, make sure windows update is latest. Both avast & mwb will be enough to make sure your pc is virus free. |
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netmatrix
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Jun 22 2018, 02:41 AM
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QUOTE(JustcallmeLarry @ Jun 22 2018, 02:32 AM) Thanks for the fast reply. Yeah my window check for updates daily but I think windows stop supporting Vista already? Yes. But there was serious & critical updates that came up when spectre was detected. Win XP also had some updates. |
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netmatrix
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Jun 22 2018, 02:53 AM
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QUOTE(JustcallmeLarry @ Jun 22 2018, 02:46 AM) Thanks dude. So there is nothing to worry about? Nah nothing to worry about. |
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netmatrix
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Mar 12 2020, 12:55 AM
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QUOTE(fu'house @ Mar 11 2020, 10:23 PM) Just for my own curiosity, are there any known viruses trojan malware or anything that is not removable even after reformatting? Deeply embedded within Windows system files or simply untouchable even trying to remove files from the hdd. Yes its called Boot sector virus. This one is resistant to normal hard disk formatting and it comes back again. But you could remove it by running MSDOS FDISK command or low level format a drive. But this virus seems to be totally eliminated since the adoption of NTFS & the introduction of UEFI & GPT partitions. But that does not mean new versions of these would not show up in the future. The other was CIH virus. This was designed to format your drive and wipe the motherboard BIOS data. Seen quite a few of these during my time working in a Computer shop. New scary versions these days are Ransomware, compared to data erasing ones. |
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netmatrix
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Mar 12 2020, 06:28 PM
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QUOTE(fu'house @ Mar 12 2020, 02:39 PM) The boot sector types, does it have a name like Brontok or any long term names? Speaking of future, generally people know windows more and more intricately it seem possible to "write" or create one for embedding. I would read up more on this. Thanks for the knowledge. Nahh... Brontok is a worm. It mainly starts from Registry entries and files. It does not reside in MBR. Maybe there are such variants, but i have not seen it before. Very common during Windows Vista/ Windows 7 time. |
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