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False Positive - Sysguard / Antivirus System Pro


Robbie

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This is my first post here, so bear with me.

I was last night infected with Antivirus System Pro, telling me to buy its phony antivirus program. The malware blocked task manager and McAfee from opening. I worked around it in Firefox to find a solution and it led me to try Malwarebytes.

I downloaded this program, updated it, and ran it. It detected a few items and prompted for a reboot after I removed them. Much to my dismay, the malware was still operating at full strength, still blocking everything. I rebooted again and quickly opened my task manager as things were still loading and saw a strange process called ycslsysguard.exe which I terminated, and the malware did not start. I took the opportunity to perform full scans with both Malwarebytes and McAfee, but they both came up with nothing.

After a few hours of searching around, I decided to check my msconfig settings to see if there was a program booting that was suspicious-looking (I try to game on my laptop, so I keep very close track of the processes running and the programs that boot so I can run at maximum efficiency. The System Config > Startup tab showed that I apparently had "Microsoft

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Hi Robbie, and welcome to the forums here at Malwarebytes.org :)

Please re-post the information in your post (and paste in the logs instead of attaching them if you are able to) here:

http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.p...ew_post&f=7

as we do not work on malware removal in the general forums or in the False positive forum.

Also, you should check out this topic as well: http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=9573

As soon as one of our expert helpers are available, he or she will be happy to provide you with one-on-one assistance. Please be aware that the forum is quite busy at times, and it may take up to 48 hours or a bit longer before someone will be able to get back to you. If you haven't received a response within 48 hours though, feel free to reply to your post to "bump" it up for a request for review.

Thank you :)

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@ Nosirrah

Oops, sounds like it might be a FP, I thought that by the description it might not be. Hopefully Robbie comes back to this thread and sees this :blink:

Edit: Maybe I mis-interpreted what you said, sounds like this is actually an infection after all.

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