![]() Some security certificate/authentication bullshit (I posted about it a while ago when I couldn't get to come up correctly on my computer.works now) so he was using Chrome. I tried last time to get him to use Firefox more, but Firefox was just not working with HTTPS sites like Facebook. They need flash to watch all their bullshit videos, etc, etc, etc. By news I mean Drudge Report type of shit. I think he or his wife are too trusting and are installing shit, probably shit they don't even know about. Once again my pop has had his brower hijacked. I mean, I also use CCleaner, but I hardly class that as anti-malware. Back in HS we didn't start with the learning until at least the middle of the second week. It's so high paced right now that we've actually started full lessons, less than a week into school. Possibly half of one, provided I get "soft-skill credentialed" (basically show a maturity level on par with college students) and pass my classes when my schedule's revisited over Christmas break. Right now, they're trying to cram my last two years of high school into one. Not having too many problems adapting to the (much) higher workload, though I am a bit distressed at having far less time with which to play Skyrim.Īpparently the whole "schedule's packed" issue gets a lot better once you start actual college courses. By the way, I started in that Early College program on the 25th. In fact, I'll be sure to do that tomorrow while I'm on campus. Haven't had anything pop up on it yet, though I should probably get MBAM, Avast free, and Spybot. Oh, and MSE, which installed as part of my Windows Update procedure. So what are people using these days for malware cleaning?Īll I do is exercise common sense with a healthy dose of Adblock plus and noscript and cross my fingers. Yeah, I'd love to say "Just reinstall Windows" every single time, but of course that's not realistic. Install ABP and relevant subs three times. Run netshell commands if networking is hosed. Run adwcleaner (this will ultimately reboot the machine).ĭo a boot scan with Avast with Delete as the default detection action.īoot into Safe mode (this is a HUGE PITA on Windows 8).Ĭheck Services for crap, look to make sure that Browser Settings are where they should be. Copy the whole stupid MBAM folder off my thumb drive into %appdata%\stupidlongpath because the MBAM people can't be bothered with a non-stupid offline installer. Install MBAM, Spybot and Avast from a Flash drive. Disable pretty much everything that I don't know with 100% certainty needs to be there. Run the Norton or AVG or Webroot or Mcaffee remover. So, at odds with the cleanup procedure I've written for others, my real cleanup procedure looks more like: The user can't start browser.exe, but if they're savvy enough to recognize that it IS a Chrome window, it's going to scare them off Chrome anyway. It looks like Chrome and it still has Chrome branding, which creates a side effect of making impacted persons switch to some other browser (probably IE), which will run them right in to other exploit code. My other new favorite thing is malware that flat-out downloads its own malware-infested version of Chrome, usually called Browser.exe. That's not a big deal as such, but again, forcing someone to an unwanted page that can contain further exploit code AND burying the user settings by running the program in compatibility mode for Windows XP so that it's abstracted out of general user settings? Normal humans are not going to go look at that stuff. I also see manipulation of shortcuts and compatibility settings. If removal apps don't kill the GPO, I have to think it's beyond my ability to explain to anyone other than an experienced IT guy how to fix that. ![]() I see a lot of bad applications that use GPOs to enforce bad behavior. ![]() And most people still don't even know what an add-on is or where to look for them. I have a standard procedure that works pretty well (install MBAM, Spybot, Avast and do updates by whatever means necessary, do boot-time or safe mode scans, on reboot make sure ABP is on all browsers with at least the Malware Domains subscription and all apps are updated via ninite), but at this point I'm going to say my procedure needs to be better.īrowser settings: IE and Chrome both say they have a "reset all user-defined settings" option. It's back to school time, which for me means getting to look at or hear about the malware that's been on high school and college students' computers since May, the last time they actually looked at a device other than their phone.
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