Re: ARRRGHHHH
- From: Happy <ubehappy2day@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:14:40 -0500
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:18:49 -0700, "Cane" <JohnCane@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
even though I was using AVG, I think I was hit by the same software that
Happy was assaulted by. It kept telling me all the virus I had in my system
(unsolicited) and was hard to close the browser to get away from it.
I have to do a cold reboot to get away from the assault and then I did a
complete system Scan with my AVG software.
AVG declared my computer to be virus free. The software that assaulted my
tried to get me to buy their product by lying to me. Claiming my puter was
infected
I will file some type of criminal charge against them if I am hit by them
again. I am sure they are doing something illegal that they can be charged
for.
Cane
Cane -
Zonealarm declared me virus free too - that is virus free as to the
ones the malware spontaneous scan claimed...but the insidious malware
had downloaded itself and infected my machine. It hides (with -h and
-r attribute) executables and dll's all over the place AND deletes
necessary registry entries. DO NOT NECESSARILY BELIEVE YOUR SCAN
Try to bring up Task Manager - any way you can, Ctrl+alt + delete or
taskmgr at the run line or, if the dialog box doesn't come up, then
the task manager entry deleted from your registry but the exe is still
in your windows directory...this malware is called the enterprise
suite malware or Windows enterprise suite malware. You can google
that and find legit free fixes that'll clean it up everywhere AND fix
the registry including adding back files.
Oh - and you might want to go into Control Panel and check Security
Center - and Read Virus Protection -This bugger of a program replaced
the name of my software (Zonealarm) with their name Enterprise
Security Suite. Just another example of its insidious nature.
If you're lucky like me (dripping sarcasm) Melvin will call you too,
cause you didn't buy it, and claim to want to help you with your
computer problem and do a free scan...
Check out the FBI's site, there's a complaint form you can file. I
didn't because I wasn't out any money, but if I get another phone call
I certainly. (took a photo of the my phone with phone number with
Melvin's name showing on the caller ID...just in case)
Good luck
Happy
(who got the replacement cc in the mail today and haven't had any
further probs since Tues...but still wary)
.
"Cane" <JohnCane@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Top,
I have been using the AVG software for quite a few years now.
I can not be convinced that there is a better software package out there
that competes with them
They also give away a free version that works very well
Cane
"Top" <top@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <3bitel.89o.19.1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, juba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Happy wrote:
Was merrily browsing the net yesterday when, inspite of having a
decent firewall/anti-virus/anti-spyware protection I got hit by the
insidious Enterprise Security malware - ARRRGHHHH!!! Spent most of
afternoon, evening getting rid of it, fixing my registry, doing a
system restore (restored the Sunday's Checkpoint) had to do this in a
certain order before the system would allow a restore. This bugger
deletes task manager out your registry making it non-functioning
(therefore making it more difficult to delete the running malware
process), deletes key files out of your av/as software - not only
disabling it but also making it extremely difficult to delete,
identifies itself to Windows as the av/as software, attempts to hide
its directory and make the files read-only - been a long time since I
used the command prompt and attrib commands. And of distributes its
files to several different places (thanks Windows - I remember good
old DOS days where a program was in ONE place).
I was in a mood anyway and was d e t e r m i n e d to fix this without
doing a whole laptop recovery and reload - hey, I'm lying here anyway.
So I'm pattin' myself on the back.
I'm just glad I didn't fall for their trickery - their poor use of
English "Save Now only 60%" for the Lifetime subsciption - gave them
away and pay for the program to guaranteed to remove the 20 critical
trojan horse viruses that their scan falsely reported.
Bunch of alf;'o237$%^&1!!!
Happy
I used to spend a lot of time on stuff like this, but ever since I
switched everyone I know to Firefox with the NoScript extension and AVG
Anti-virus Free Edition I haven't had to clean up any polluted
computers. That's been over 3 years now.
I use both of those religiously. Thunderbird is a good email client as
I'm sure you know. I
just got a new laptop that I won't connect to the net until I have those
and a couple more
installed. Only difference is I finally bought the paid version of AVG.
I've seen people say
some of the newer anti-virus programs are better but I'm of the school of
if it ain't broke
don't fix.
Top
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