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Symantec Antivirus was infected which left PC unprotected and the User Unaware.
Working on another Windows XP system that was brought to me with the user complaining of random shutdowns.

Cracked open the case to find one of the dirtiest computers that I have seen in a while so after a good cleaning I set it up [...]

January 22nd, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Microsoft, Security | One comment

Win32 Alureon and it’s removal from Windows computers​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Win32 Alureon and it’s removal from Windows computers​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

This past ​​​​​week MLD Services ran into a particularly nasty virus​​​​​ called Win32 Alueron that was installed on a clients laptop. Symptoms of the infection were the disabling of the free version of ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Avast ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​and redirects from the website the user was trying to view to infected sites attempting to install more malware.

Here is Microsoft’s definition:

August 29th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Security | 2 comments