Possible attack through MWB email

[Dan964]

Last night, Dec 21, I received an email from MWB that looked like any other MWB email. However, upon opening the email, I got a pop-up from the MWB app that said real-time protections were tuned off.  Unfortunately I clicked the button to turn protections back on.  Nothing happened.  I tried opening MWB, nothing happened.  I then restarted the machine, Win 8.1.

I logged into admin, opened MWB to make sure protections were on.  They were.  I then logged off and logged into user account and checked if protections up, they were.  I then opened Outlook.  The MWB email posted again and MWB app immediately warned protections turned off.  I shutdown.

At this point I assumed the email was an attack vector.  On restart, things seemed normal.  Deleted email through web mail on Android.

I note several other posts have been made complaining off realtime protection being turned off so I thought I'd post my experience here.

Currently running scan with root kit check enabled.

 

Dan

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Here are the logs...

mbst-grab-results.zip