Well,
One laptop i was working on today had a ransomware, real nasty one..

I was unable to do ANYTHING. and was about ready to format on orders of the systems owner.

The virus must have glitched or something, cause on one bootup, it didn't hyjack the desktop, or any application for that matter
I decided to take advantage.

Scans:
Spybot search and destroy: No Spyware...odd....
ComboFix: found and removed a rootkit (ZeroAccess)
Avast: 40 infected files, all deleted.

Ive never had a ransomware or virus just suddenly stop functioning before.
But it seems to have worked out for the best.
So far all testing on the machine shows no infection remaining.

That's quite simply amazing. Gotta love when things work out so well like that.

tell me about it,

They are running the comp now, and waiting for it to come up,
before it came up after a few seconds of bootup,
Now, the comp hasnt been shut off since i finished working on it, and they have been browsing the internet the last hour.


Well, as stumped as this has left us,
here was the final bill

Diagnosis:Ransomware infection
Repair: under unusual circumstances: Standard scans.
Charge: FREE

Well...I did request that they be player 4 in a local Mario kart match.

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Edited by: The_Shadow, Dec 14th, 2012 @ 9:31 am