Re: OT: Good, free Malware?

Noj wrote:

Paul-B wrote...


Frank Adam wrote:

On 29 Nov 2009 12:58:57 GMT, "Paul-B" <paul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Noj wrote:

Matthew Pope wrote...


Any advice on where to get some?

My pc is alright, but my friend has mistakenly clicked on a
link in >> > his email and bang, email hacked, FB hacked and
sluggish computer. >> >
Cheers,

Matt Pope


http://www.malwarebytes.org/

For starters

The best. Don't forget to update before you scan, and do a full
scan the first time... it takes a while but you'll be amazed at
what it finds.

Also grab Hijackthis and run through the list it produces. Go
online and check each file that looks suspicious. Note that some
filenames may seem familiar, but the path they're in tells the
real story. Most malware forums will also ask for that list.

Um.. before you do that, install a proper firewall and disable the
crap XP has. Comodo free, ZA, etc..


I really don't understand why you guys get so many viruses... I
hardly ever get any of my machines infected (unless I do it
deliberately). I have loads of domain names, I have machines with
XP Pro and Windows 7 running, they have NOD32 as an antivirus,
Malwarebytes runs in the background, and I access the Internet
through a Draytek Vigor wireless modem/router. Nothing very special
there, but no infections.

In addition I manage clients with a total of well over 100 PC's, all
running Server 2003, 2008, Windows XP Pro and a couple with Win7,
and malware is not a very big problem. Spam, yes, but very little
of my time is spent killing malware.

Someone somewhere is doing something wrong.



Biggest problem is using non-text email and allowing attachments to
open automatically (preview pane) - which is the default for Windows
(IIRC) - oh and running activeX.

No home or business should allow that to happen.

True. Unfortunately most of my clients use HTML in their emails as they
use sigs with logos etc., but I always switch off the preview pane in
Outlook and of course NOD32 scans the emails at workstation level and I
use GFI security on the server.

I can't understand why Outlook, both 2003 and 2007, defaults to the
preview pane on and you have to switch it off at every bloody folder,
and if the user adds extra folders he/she invariably leaves the preview
pane on.

--
Paul-B
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