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my3rdeye



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Not Responding said:
He said he got the letter after going to putlocker and watching a movie.
It must be a real messed up porn site for a cover story like that.
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Not Responding
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Re: ransomware aka FBI virus [Re: my3rdeye]
#20336413 - 07/27/14 06:55 AM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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thats what i said...
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lessismore
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Re: ransomware aka FBI virus [Re: deadwk]
#20341506 - 07/28/14 06:01 AM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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thedeadwalkk said: Man I'm going to college to become a Sys Admin, I'd be so down if I got paid in pills and drugs 
Sysadms nullroute each week, usually friday
Rewind the tape, redirect stdin to /dev/urandom
funny things can happen
although null routing is rarely pleasant for me :-) , no matter how many times I do it
fork a new instance of yourself
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Nemodeus
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Safest route would be to backup all your buddies personal files to a usb drive then reformat the hard drive and reinstall the operating system.
Antivirus software and/or malware removal tools can usually do a pretty good job, but you can never be 100% sure that they wont miss something. A freshly installed operating system on the other hand is guaranteed to be clean (at least so far as you trust the proprietor anyway), and in many cases is actually much faster than scanning the entire system for known malware.
-------------------- In an entheogen influenced moment of clarity I came to understand that reality manifests as a dream from the collective subconscious minds of all conscious entities. Nothingness made something because we collectively believe it into being, and physical laws given power by the reinforcement of conscious observation. Creation, destruction, and even time itself are but an aspect of ourselves and we of them. Life and death, simply illusions we face from a limited grasp of our own existence. We are one, all is eternal.
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deadwk
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Re: ransomware aka FBI virus [Re: Nemodeus]
#20344353 - 07/28/14 08:16 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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@lessismore:

I already had to do some of that for an end of year school project, I was running 2 linux servers as email, firewall, ftp, http, and nfs servers.
It was so tedius and dumb 
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Nemodeus said: Safest route would be to backup all your buddies personal files to a usb drive then reformat the hard drive and reinstall the operating system.
If those files are infected, then your newly installed OS would be infected too upon execution of said files, or transfer of the files.
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Nemodeus
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Re: ransomware aka FBI virus [Re: deadwk]
#20344385 - 07/28/14 08:24 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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By personal files I was thinking more along the lines of photos, or music, or text documents, or whatever, not executables.
But should probably scan them first just to be sure. Its still faster than scanning the entire system.
-------------------- In an entheogen influenced moment of clarity I came to understand that reality manifests as a dream from the collective subconscious minds of all conscious entities. Nothingness made something because we collectively believe it into being, and physical laws given power by the reinforcement of conscious observation. Creation, destruction, and even time itself are but an aspect of ourselves and we of them. Life and death, simply illusions we face from a limited grasp of our own existence. We are one, all is eternal.
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deadwk
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Re: ransomware aka FBI virus [Re: Nemodeus]
#20344449 - 07/28/14 08:41 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Viruses can infect files that aren't specifically executables. The executable as far as my knowledge of viruses/malware goes, is generally what starts getting your system infected. But after that viruses/malware can replicate and infect your registry, and other types of files.
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Nemodeus
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Re: ransomware aka FBI virus [Re: deadwk]
#20344626 - 07/28/14 09:26 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Malware can make changes to non-executable files sure, but the resulting code would need to be executed somehow to have any effect.
Malware doesn't run itself just by having the file on your drive, its not some sentient being that lives in your system, its just code that needs to be executed just like any other code. Usually this happens the first time through browser exploits (almost always javascript or plugin related), or by disguising itself as some non threatening software that the user unwittingly executes himself (known as a trojan). When the code is executed the fist time it would install itself somewhere in the system and configure the registry to auto-execute it from then on.
I suppose in theory it would possible to exploit a vulnerability in some photo viewer or media player software or whatever to execute code hidden within an ordinarily non-executable file like an mp3, but its pretty unlikely and would be entirely reliant upon a specific piece of software being utilized.
For example, maybe it takes advantage of a flaw in the way itunes plays a music file to execute code hidden within an mp3. Its pretty unlikely that a security flaw this huge in itunes would not be discovered and patched, and even less likely that the compromised mp3 with the hidden code would be listed in an antivirus database.
Either way its still safer and likely faster to reformat the drive and reinstall the operating system, and just use the antivirus or whatever for the personal files that you transfer rather than entirely rely on it to clean the entire system.
-------------------- In an entheogen influenced moment of clarity I came to understand that reality manifests as a dream from the collective subconscious minds of all conscious entities. Nothingness made something because we collectively believe it into being, and physical laws given power by the reinforcement of conscious observation. Creation, destruction, and even time itself are but an aspect of ourselves and we of them. Life and death, simply illusions we face from a limited grasp of our own existence. We are one, all is eternal.
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Not Responding
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Re: ransomware aka FBI virus [Re: Nemodeus]
#20346189 - 07/29/14 10:38 AM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ill be giving his machine back today. If the problem persists my next step will be to reformat.
-------------------- Dear Kratom, I've been numb for so long that I forgot how to feel So I don't care if it will break my heart, Just fuck me till I disappear
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mandrin13
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Windows IS the FBI malware
-------------------- Even Jesus got stoned.
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Re: ransomware aka FBI virus [Re: mandrin13]
#20350119 - 07/30/14 07:12 AM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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-------------------- Dear Kratom, I've been numb for so long that I forgot how to feel So I don't care if it will break my heart, Just fuck me till I disappear
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iateshaggy
i haxor 360s



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Quote:
Not Responding said: Ill be giving his machine back today. If the problem persists my next step will be to reformat.
first step is reformat. i like to back up the files and save them for a week and then scan the drive before transferring back to the once infected pc.
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Re: ransomware aka FBI virus [Re: iateshaggy]
#20354535 - 07/31/14 07:24 AM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Why a week?
-------------------- Dear Kratom, I've been numb for so long that I forgot how to feel So I don't care if it will break my heart, Just fuck me till I disappear
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iateshaggy
i haxor 360s



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to give my av program time to update for any possible virus from the time i wipe the system.
-------------------- You are a filipina sex goddess who wants to fuck me until I fall asleep, so then you can tickle my balls and see if the legend of my diamond filled nutsuck is true. I am a white man from costa rica, who smells like lime jello.
I can flash/jtag/repair 360's, pm for details.
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Re: ransomware aka FBI virus [Re: iateshaggy]
#20359236 - 08/01/14 07:18 AM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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gotcha
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