(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:37 pm
Post subject: Virus: No Sound; Task Manager maxing out CPU Archived from groups: alt>comp>anti-virus (more info?)
I, apparently, have picked up a nasty virus on my XP PC... Suddenly,
the sound card has been disabled. If I go to the Sound control panel,
everything is greyed out. It's functionless.
Also, when I launch Task Manager, the task manager process takes up
close to 100% CPU function, so my computer has slowed to a crawl.
Plus, I keep getting processes popping up like 364759283.exe and
18297354.exe. Always different, random number combinations.
And to top it off, System Restore has been disabled, and when I try to
turn it back on, that control panel is entirely greyed out, as well.
Any ideas as to what particular virus this might be? And how to fight
it?
(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:26 am
Post subject: Re: Virus: No Sound; Task Manager maxing out CPU [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
| I, apparently, have picked up a nasty virus on my XP PC... Suddenly,
| the sound card has been disabled. If I go to the Sound control panel,
| everything is greyed out. It's functionless.
| Also, when I launch Task Manager, the task manager process takes up
| close to 100% CPU function, so my computer has slowed to a crawl.
| Plus, I keep getting processes popping up like 364759283.exe and
| 18297354.exe. Always different, random number combinations.
| And to top it off, System Restore has been disabled, and when I try to
| turn it back on, that control panel is entirely greyed out, as well.
| Any ideas as to what particular virus this might be? And how to fight
| it?
As for the sound problem, chances are it is not malware related.
To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close
Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.
C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.
You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.
When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.
(Msg. 3) Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:06 pm
Post subject: Re: Virus: No Sound; Task Manager maxing out CPU [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
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...
(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:45 pm
Post subject: Re: Virus: No Sound; Task Manager maxing out CPU [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
| 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...
MBAM may have found 331 instantces of malware or modifications to the OS the malware made
by I truly doubt that "It found 331 viruses! "
All viruses are malware but not all malware are viruses.
(Msg. 5) Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:29 am
Post subject: Re: Virus: No Sound; Task Manager maxing out CPU [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
In article <aa430a11-d523-401d-a32c-bca260198719
@u28g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, brad.ulreich DeleteThis @gmail.com 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.
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:07 pm
Post subject: Re: Virus: No Sound; Task Manager maxing out CPU [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
Leythos wrote:
> In article <aa430a11-d523-401d-a32c-bca260198719
> @u28g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, brad.ulreich.TakeThisOut@gmail.com 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 ?
(Msg. 7) Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:07 pm
Post subject: Re: Virus: No Sound; Task Manager maxing out CPU [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
"John Mason Jr" <notvalid.TakeThisOut@cox.net.invalid> wrote
> What kind of steps would you take to be able to "certify" a machine as
> clean ?
(Msg. 8) Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:29 pm
Post subject: Re: Virus: No Sound; Task Manager maxing out CPU [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
In article <gvadnQSDQrnQe3XVnZ2dnUVZ_qTinZ2d.DeleteThis@supernews.com>,
notvalid.DeleteThis@cox.net.invalid says...
> Leythos wrote:
> > In article <aa430a11-d523-401d-a32c-bca260198719
> > @u28g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, brad.ulreich.DeleteThis@gmail.com 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.
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