[GreenKeys] sality virus

[Bryan Brodie]

(apologies if this is a double post - I did not see it on the list the
1st time I sent it)

Hi George,

I did some searching about Sality. Microsoft has the most detailed information:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/threat/encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?name=Virus:Win32/Sality.AT

It's not nice - it's a "keylogger" so it tries to grab passwords and
send them to a server.

It also wrecks your registry so it is hard to install AV to remove it.

A link to a tool which is designed to specifically remove this
infection is here:
http://free.avg.com/us-en/remove-sality

This is a small tool targeting this infection specifically, so it
installs quicker and is more likely to work.

One of the things about this virus is that it wrecks your windows
"registry" so that you can't boot into safe mode, and you can't
install certain AV products, and it more or less infects every EXE
file it can find.

You might be looking at total windows reinstall to really get rid of
it. Otherwise it may return like a zombie from the dead.

Say what you want about computers from Apple's golden arches, they
don't give you indigestion.

Unfortunately, those golden arches computers also don't like to talk
over a serial port at 110 baud.

Good luck exorcising your digital demons. In the old days the phone
company wouldn't let you hook anything directly to their lines.

Nowadays they don't care, but neither do they really try very hard to
help, if they even know what they're doing.

How far we've fallen from Ma Bell's times . . . .

Bryan Brodie

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From: GEORGE HUTCHISON Owner <w7tty at centurylink.net>
To: GREENKEYS at mailman.qth.net
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 22:15:47 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [GreenKeys] Re-Send Of Previous Message

... Any advice would be welcomed...