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InvisibleFerris
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I just got an honest to god virus and owned its ass
    #8851118 - 08/30/08 04:26 AM (15 years, 8 months ago)

A lot of people complain about how they get "viruses" all the time in the form of malware or whatever, but this shit was particularly nasty.

It fucked with my registry by removing access to my c drive, changed access permissions to administrative tools (like task manager), diasbled my antivirus, firewall, and internet.

Most people would have been screwed, but I was able to run dos, regain control of c drive, search for and delete all new files made today on restart, and run a registry cleaner I had on floppy (thank god for floppies).

I think I accidentally deleted a system file in the process, but so far it doesn't seem to be anything super important.  Thank god for the techniques I learned back in the early 90s.  I haven't had a real virus this millenium.  To be fair, I downloaded a sketchy exe (it passed scan).


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Re: I just got an honest to god virus and owned its ass [Re: Ferris]
    #8851561 - 08/30/08 09:35 AM (15 years, 8 months ago)

Did you identify it?

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Thank god for the techniques I learned back in the early 90s.



Amen to that, brother :thumbup:


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Re: I just got an honest to god virus and owned its ass [Re: Ferris]
    #8855699 - 08/31/08 11:10 AM (15 years, 8 months ago)

Good job. :cool:

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search for and delete all new files made today on restart





I'm not a pro in DOS, just the basics and such.  Can you tell me how you did this part?

Also, I usualy hate registry cleaners, but can you tell me which one you used in DOS for this?


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Re: I just got an honest to god virus and owned its ass [Re: RuNE]
    #8863820 - 09/02/08 12:00 AM (15 years, 8 months ago)

Or you could have just made a ghost of a clean install and restored your computer to a pristine state in a matter of minutes.

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Re: I just got an honest to god virus and owned its ass [Re: poof]
    #8867395 - 09/02/08 05:58 PM (15 years, 8 months ago)

i know the virus you got. it's a nasty one, easy fix though.


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Re: I just got an honest to god virus and owned its ass [Re: Ferris]
    #8873296 - 09/03/08 07:16 PM (15 years, 8 months ago)

honestly since the 90's the scene has changed. most people that think they dont have malware do. if your not using linux or i hate to say, a mac. you must run anti virus and anti spyware. the best free shit is avira anti virus and superantispyware.

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Re: I just got an honest to god virus and owned its ass [Re: Ferris]
    #8873705 - 09/03/08 08:32 PM (15 years, 8 months ago)

It might have infected some system files.  Did you diff the hashes from before the infection with the hashes after or are you still owned and just bit the thrashing tail off the lizard?  Also I would be interested in knowing what you identified it as and if you could submit the EXE for me to analyze (I research these things a bit).


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Re: I just got an honest to god virus and owned its ass [Re: delta9]
    #8898313 - 09/08/08 07:51 PM (15 years, 8 months ago)

I moved the day after posting this and still haven't got a new place to hook up the computer (or check the name of the virus).  I think I'll spend a couple hours to do a reformat, for security reasons, considering the utter nastiness of this particular virus.


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Re: I just got an honest to god virus and owned its ass [Re: Ferris]
    #8905678 - 09/10/08 06:32 AM (15 years, 8 months ago)

So what you're saying is that I cannot have a copy of it and you are not sure you owned its ass.  :frown:


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Re: I just got an honest to god virus and owned its ass [Re: delta9]
    #8913011 - 09/11/08 03:07 PM (15 years, 8 months ago)

autoruns and process explorer are awesome tools for removing viruses, spyware, etc.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

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