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gregatkins

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  1. I'm trying to get the higher ups out of the mentality that the days of "put a floppy in and if it's infected then your computer can be infected" are long behind us. The majority of people that write malicious code, sad to say, are extremely intelligent when it comes to computers. So yes, the days of viruses being self-sufficient and wreaking havoc all by themselves is pretty common.
  2. We had a Server 2003, no AV protection and firewall disabled. Don't even get me started on that decision. Do these rogue AV programs like Security Suite, Windows Defender XP Pro, and all the variants have the ability to install themselves without user interaction? Can they spread and install themselves over a LAN? Does the Conficker worm have the ability to do this, i.e. can I have infected computer A on one side of a LAN infected and the virus is smart enough to port sniff and find any open ports throughout the network to propagate itself?
  3. The latest virus to rear it's head is AV360. Some users say a false alarm popped up while they were browsing the web page..other say it was on there desktop when they walked away and came back to the computer. Does this malware install itself automatically with console privileges without user interaction? Most users logon, then are away from their machine so if the malware pop-up comes on asking them to install they won't be around to ALT F4 out of it. Also, do most viruses spread without having to open up any kind of file? Are they self sufficient and able to sniff out open ports and automatically launch themselves into other machines without the use of infected files shared between people, bad emails, etc.???
  4. I'm looking for a solid anti-virus protection that won't be a resource hog like Symantec and McAfee. Alot of the machines at the school are pretty old so I was thinking about AntiVir since AVG does seem to be on the heavy side (though very effective). Of course Malwarebytes is on there as a second layer of protection. Both AntiVir and AVG are around the same price and offer the same features (and server support to manage updates on clients)...just can't decide which one.
  5. It was a variant of the virut virus, still nasty...pretty much destroyed all the .exe. files. AntiVir wouldn't install but I got AVG to install without issues. It couldn't clean the files so naturally when half of the system .exe files are quarantined it makes it useless. The computer didn't have any anti-virus software on there in the beginning. I ran AVGs remove virut utility and of course it didn't find anything, but there are a few variants out there so I just reformatted and put AntiVir on it.
  6. Somehow this virus (and variants) of Win32 Virut busted out on my school campus, on the bright side the "economy saving" virus protection software we have now we most likely be replaced by something that actually works. Is there anyway to remove this Virut virus and save the .exe files it infects? I am currently scanning with the AVG virut removal tool, however it can't clean infected files and has to delete them then most likely I'll be reloading the OS from scratch. Many of the infected files are ones that Windows needs to run, and either way I want to clean all the files since this virus opens up a backdoor port to download more virii.
  7. I ran Malwarebytes which found 2 infections, removed them. I ran AntiVir which found 4 HTML heuristic virus files and removed them. However, I still get pop-ups with IE, even when the browser is closed. Mozilla doesn't seem to have this problem. Any thoughts on what could be causing the pop-ups with IE and what scanner tool to use to get rid of it? I tried the Look2Me app but it doesn't like running in Vista.
  8. I don't suppose the guy that made XP AV 2008 and 2009 has been caught and prosecuted...
  9. My dilemma is that this is my first year as a tech on this school, that went the entire time with absolutely no malware protection at all for several years, and by the time I get a call to help them it is to the point where they have at least 150+ infections, and alot of the downloaders that just go crazy on the PC. This combined with the user's lack of knowledge of how malware spreads itself put the machines at even a greater risk for infection. If could devote my entire time with just cleaning the network that would be great, unfortunately I've other duties I'll probably just wind up getting MBAM corporate version, or whatever is needed to cover the number of seats that I have and just tackle the problem on a case by case basis until the summer when I have the time to layout a game plan to get the network back into shape and locked down where users can't do that much damage. I think remote desktop connection, pc anywhere, etc., will help me out with cleaning once I get it installed on the workstations.
  10. What I was asking for was pretty simple. I sent a private email asking about this feature but was told that it wasn't an option because they wanted people to be absolutely sure about the changes MBAM was about to make before clicking the remove button...I'll take the chance and have faith in the developers just like most people do in any kind of malware software. My reference to the "are you sure" feature was just asking for any kind of chance to put in an auto-clean function after a scan, because if it isn't even in the future from MBAM then I'm spending my cash somewhere else so I'll ignore the post accusing me of installing it on every computer I have. I'm also saying on the initial setup I'd rather click through several windows saying I want it to auto-clean for future scans, than seek another anti-malware company that decided to "live on the edge" and give the user the option to auto-clean on a scan. I'm basically telling the developers I'd rather click through 10 windows just to get to an auto-clean on all future scans that have to look to another company to fit my needs. I got a quote for a license for the school campus,however I'm not dropping a dime because it is way too time consuming to manually remove infections from computers on my campus...so I'm looking elsewhere. What sucks is that I think MBAM is the best tool out there for removing malware, but not the best tool if you want to run it on a network. It all depends on what audience you are trying to reach with software, a home user or a network admin.. If you bought anti-virus software for campus with over 200 computers, would you get one that you have to go to every single computer or get a program that allows for remote installs, auto-cleans, and configuration templates? I hope this makes it at least a little more clear on the intent of my original post.
  11. I'd really like to see an administrator option to have MBAM automatically clean the computer. It would be nice to have it as an option, even if it means clicking several "Are you really sure you want it to do this?" type boxes. I have over 200 computers I have to babysit which means I don't have the time to run a scan on all of them and click the button remove them after the scan.
  12. Usually it takes me around 30'ish minutes for me to do a full scan of a hard drive with around 50,000 files (if I can remember what the count was). So, just have to take into account the processor speed and what all is running at the time..10 hours does seem like a little excessive.
  13. Yup tried the last known good configuration. I fixed it today, kind of a 1-2 punch thing. It had malware infections and a bad memory chip which caused even more problems. I think the memory was causing the boot up problems, first bad memory chip I've had since I started building systems since...a long time ago
  14. Well what I mean is that AntiVir free edition is for home use only, anything else like commercial use (to include educational) you are supposed to pay for a license
  15. A bump. Also for the people telling me removing the hard drive and scanning it as a secondary isn't needed at all, I'd appreciate your advice at this point since apparently you know how to get around this..since apparently alot of people have read the post but nobody has a solution. Perhaps scanning it as a secondary drive is a solution !?!?!
  16. If a quick scan is just as effective as a full scan, why does Malwarebytes recommend a full scan when an infection is initially detected? If it was just as effective, why is there a need for a full scan in the first place ?
  17. I'll probably wind up buying MBAM to go on top of our AV program, however I was wondering if the program automatically quarantines infected files on it's scans. I didn't see any kind of options like most programs to "delete, quarantine, etc." when an infected file is found. I don't want any user intervention with this, I want to install it and set the parameters then have it scan daily and clean anything it finds automatically. Thanks for the help.
  18. If you are using this computer just for home use Avira AntiVir is free and works great, and it isn't a resource hog. I used to be a big fan of AVG free, however the new version of it caused me to look elsewhere. I think Avira Antivir actually got some kudos from a magazine for one of the top free AV programs. I've always used Windows Firewall, can't comment on its effectiveness
  19. Typically my people call when there computer becomes non-functional regardless of me telling them to call if mysterious programs all of a sudden appear...like "RegCure" I can't boot into safe mode, computer just keeps rebooting I can't install Malware Bytes, it gives an error on install, when it updated said there was an internal database error (0,0) I tried installing it to a different folder, didn't work. Both cases caused the computer to reboot the second the install ran Panda Activescan causes a reboot, along with any other recommended program on this website The only time I got MBAM to install and started a scan, it instantly rebooted the machine numerous times Is there a fix for this, because I'm thinking it would be quicker to rebuild the system from a format in 2 hours than wasting time doing this...
  20. I've had to do the cat and mouse deal, I'd run a scan then clean it, reboot and the rogue installers would do their thing. The people here know their job though to help you get back to normal ops. I took the time to actually educate my users on malware, even put up posters from our virus software company and it helped once I got my systems cleaned up. Depending on your user requirements, how data is saved, network configuration, etc., I'd look into programs like Deep Freeze so you won't waste endless work hours on needless screw ups by your users.
  21. Trying to install Malwarebytes on a system already heavily infected with several types of malware and virii, I've always had to remove the hard drive and scan it seperately as a slave drive because the virii/malware won't even allow the program to install. Typically the systems I've ran into with AV2009 had a plethora of other malware, rogue installers, virii, etc., that made most software installs impossible even in safe mode so the person's situation I replied to is most likely not the same as mine. I probably worded my sentence wrong with the puncuation, I was referring to buying a Malwarebytes license for K12.
  22. When people had AV2009 on their system typically there were several more virii on it. I would remove the hard drive and scan it as a secondary hard drive, just do this by putting Malwarebytes on drive C, and then right click on the infected drive in My Computer. You should see an option to scan with Malwarebytes. Also, make sure you choose a through scan of all files on the system. I'd also scan it with an AV program and maybe some kind of rogue killer app, because AV2009 embeds itself in the registry to restore itself.
  23. First off, thanks to Malwarebytes for removing the biggest pain of AV2009 that hit our users at my school district. I came into this position just recently, but how does that AV2009 typically launch itself ? (e-mail, web based, etc.?) Second, I was thinking of putting in a purchase order for a education site license, but I was wondering if it is possible to install Malwarebytes with a login script and do it silently with configuration already set up. For instance, the AV software I installed pre-configured the program settings by me setting up one computer how I like it an running a configuration utility to export the settings to an install folder on the server that the batch file uses during the remote install.
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