:note: Continued from - http://www.sevenforums.com/chillout-room/132041-today-6-a.html
Today I got a great sense of satisfaction in being able to clean a friends PC of rogue-ware that almost fooled him into clicking the "Click here to register and clean infections" button. I'm not sure if its OK to name the rogue-ware here, so I'll just say that from my research, it seems to be quite common.
My friend is a professional photographer and had recently done some major work for a client of the large V8 SuperCar races here in Adelaide, a not insubstantial job for a pretty large fee. He hadn't yet managed to back his work up to his external storage when the problem arose. The software used a nasty little trick to make all the user files and folders, desktop icons, and some progam files and folders, hidden, thus giving him (an inexperienced PC user) the impression his work was forever lost.
With judcious use of bootable F-Secure ISO, Malwarebytes and MSE, I was able to clean his system and restore all his professional work. Naturally, he took my advice to install MBAM, WoT (we suspect his wife inadvertently followed a bad link), and keep his MSE up-to-date (he seemed to have forgotten to upgrade from MSE1 to MSE2).
I've never had a bigger rep in my life than too see his face when I told him everything was OK. Of course I couldn't refuse an offer of a free slab of my favorite beer as a sign of appreciation!
I don't think i would have been able to do it without all the collective knowledge I have gained here from all of you, so a big REP to all the regulars here at SF. I'll be sure to drink some of that beer on your behalf
A big thank you for sharing your knowledge with me,
Golden
Today I got a great sense of satisfaction in being able to clean a friends PC of rogue-ware that almost fooled him into clicking the "Click here to register and clean infections" button. I'm not sure if its OK to name the rogue-ware here, so I'll just say that from my research, it seems to be quite common.
My friend is a professional photographer and had recently done some major work for a client of the large V8 SuperCar races here in Adelaide, a not insubstantial job for a pretty large fee. He hadn't yet managed to back his work up to his external storage when the problem arose. The software used a nasty little trick to make all the user files and folders, desktop icons, and some progam files and folders, hidden, thus giving him (an inexperienced PC user) the impression his work was forever lost.
With judcious use of bootable F-Secure ISO, Malwarebytes and MSE, I was able to clean his system and restore all his professional work. Naturally, he took my advice to install MBAM, WoT (we suspect his wife inadvertently followed a bad link), and keep his MSE up-to-date (he seemed to have forgotten to upgrade from MSE1 to MSE2).
I've never had a bigger rep in my life than too see his face when I told him everything was OK. Of course I couldn't refuse an offer of a free slab of my favorite beer as a sign of appreciation!
I don't think i would have been able to do it without all the collective knowledge I have gained here from all of you, so a big REP to all the regulars here at SF. I'll be sure to drink some of that beer on your behalf
A big thank you for sharing your knowledge with me,
Golden
My Computer
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Golden Mk. I.4
- OS
- Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
- CPU
- Intel i7 860 @ 2.80 GHz O/C'ed to 4.0GHz
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte P55A-UD3R Rev.1. Award BIOS F13
- Memory
- 16GB Corsair Vengance DDR3 @ 661 MHz Dual Channel (9-9-9-24)
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA NVidia GTX 560 1024MB
- Sound Card
- Realtek Integrated
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dual Samsung SyncMaster 2494HS
- Screen Resolution
- 1920*1080 and 1920*1080
- Hard Drives
- 1*Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD;
1*OCZ Vertex 2 60GB SSD;
2*Samsung F3 SpinPoint 1TB in RAID0;
1*Samsung F1 SpinPoint 1TB;
2*Western Digital 1TB External USB 3.0
1*Western Digital 500GB External USB 3.0
1*Seagate 500GB External USB 2.0
- PSU
- Thermaltake ToughPower QFan 750W
- Case
- Thermaltake Element S VK60001W2Z
- Cooling
- Corsair H60 Water Cooling, 2*230mm and 2*80mm case fans
- Keyboard
- Logitech G110
- Mouse
- Logitech MX518
