Sunday, January 24, 2010

antivirus live

Mel had her laptop infected with antivirus live. Said it locked her out of the programs that she wanted to use to get rid of it.

Did a ctrl-alt-delete after booting and was able to get to the task manager (I suppose before it began to lock it out). From this site, I learned the process running has the name [randomword]sysguard.exe. So I terminated it and the program was killed.

Then I downloaded and ran malwarebytes on quickscan. Then later fullscan (which found a couple more culprits).

Also updated and ran ad-aware and spybot for the heck of it, though I don't think they detected it.

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