I set my laptop up yesterday to embark on its usual harvest/post session. I harvested approx. 40k urls and start to run slow commenter. Went to bed as usual.
Came down this morning to find that the explorer.exe service had been terminated and bitdefender was advising of a virus that it had blocked....I thought fine.
Restarted the system and blue screen. Restarted again and quite possibly, saw the most resistant form of malware had installed itself....I had been rooted.
Booted into safe mode, tried all the usual AV scan, malware scan etc...but nothing.
Apparently, this is the start of a new breed of malware that roots itself in tdss.exe and services.exe.
I managed to get rid of it by removing all registry entries, ccleaner, hijackthis, malwarebytes, trendmicro online.
Nothing would budge this when booted normally....no exe could be started all AV protection had been disabled...
So, lesson learnt....all future scrapebox work shall be undertaken in vmware.
Just thought I would let you all know....beware
Came down this morning to find that the explorer.exe service had been terminated and bitdefender was advising of a virus that it had blocked....I thought fine.
Restarted the system and blue screen. Restarted again and quite possibly, saw the most resistant form of malware had installed itself....I had been rooted.
Booted into safe mode, tried all the usual AV scan, malware scan etc...but nothing.
Apparently, this is the start of a new breed of malware that roots itself in tdss.exe and services.exe.
I managed to get rid of it by removing all registry entries, ccleaner, hijackthis, malwarebytes, trendmicro online.
Nothing would budge this when booted normally....no exe could be started all AV protection had been disabled...
So, lesson learnt....all future scrapebox work shall be undertaken in vmware.
Just thought I would let you all know....beware
