Re: Virus: No Sound; Task Manager maxing out CPU

Leythos wrote:
In article <L_ydnU3OhpbN0nfVnZ2dnUVZ_orinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, notvalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Leythos wrote:
In article <gvadnQSDQrnQe3XVnZ2dnUVZ_qTinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, notvalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Leythos wrote:
In article <aa430a11-d523-401d-a32c-bca260198719
@u28g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, brad.ulreich@xxxxxxxxx says...
Poking around this group, I heard talk of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. I
downloaded it, and ran it. It found 331 viruses! I deleted them all,
and now my comp works great. I'm not joking. I've been through this
before, and I've run multiple softwares, taking hours and hours to
run, finding hundreds of viruses, and still not quite solving the
problem. Malwarebytes ate everything for lunch, after an absurdly
quick scan of an hour and a half...
Never assume that any single product will clean your computer. When working with a suspected compromised system always run as many anti-
malware product manual scanners as you can get your hands on.

I use David's tool and MBAM on machines that have been compromised where the owner has not requested that I certify the machines as clean.

What kind of steps would you take to be able to "certify" a machine as clean ?
Anything that you're willing to SIGN a statement that the machine is "Certified" free of known malware of all types when returned to the customer - in most cases there is liability involved if you don't do it properly.

Makes sense, I was wondering if you knew of or had a utility to verify software on a machine.

Basically a way to verify file integrity, after the fact.

If a person had prepared a list of file names and hashes in a trusted environment comparison is easy.

There is no way to do that - there are too many updates, SP's, system possible configs, Zero-Day exploits, etc....



Figured as much but thought I would ask

John
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