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 Posted: Thu, 20th Jan 2011 23:11 Post subject: How to remove virusses that hijack computer for money? |
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I got a call and it looks like the computer got hijacked.
Never had to deal with those before, i thought of bringing kaspersky and doing a full scan in safe mode, but i have no experience with those nasty virusses so any tips before i go in tomorrow would be appreciated.
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| Posted: Thu, 20th Jan 2011 23:31 Post subject: |
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Ahh i've been seeing these around, most of them are removable with a hex editor. Let me know what you find out, because last I looked they were real new and not really spreading. They were also pretty broken still at the time so you could safe mode them. Alternatively if you can't boot, try a windows disk to repair the boot order, as I believe that's what it changes.
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| Posted: Fri, 21st Jan 2011 02:38 Post subject: |
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Just thought of this although really not 100% on it, You may be able to get a live CD like.. SLAX / Fedora Live and install just Grub, not sure exactly how it messes with the boot, but a boot loader should be able to let you choose windows instead of the hijack unless it is pushing itself into the windows boot.
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| Posted: Fri, 21st Jan 2011 12:15 Post subject: |
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There are ones one different quality. If you do it wrong it is quite possible that the data is lost forever.
If you have the equipment, do a full mirroring of the harddisk before!
Then just look at what spaz suggested. Try to identify the malware, google and hope for a good solution 
If you are lucky it's just boot related and you'll be able to fix it with available tools. Good luck and tell us how it all turned out
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