[TheForge] Pete F! OT:

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Jerry Frost wrote:
> Don't you just love it when the cure is worse than the malidy?(SP?)
>
> I've fired "services" for less.
>   
Doesn't seem to have done much harm..i isolated my backup HD from the 
mayhem just in case.
Had it been an aggressive virus, that might have been the just right 
approach.
It was quite entertaining at 1;30 AM.
> Jer
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> From: "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 8:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Pete F! OT:
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>> Their first "measure"
>> http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe
>> Downloaded a backup utility from MS and apparently ran it, then
>> Ripped through my HD deleting all sorts of seemingly unrelated files
>> including parts of their AV program and it's own download file.
>> It messed about in the registry and elsewhere and seems to have
>> changed some settings and did some other stuff.
>> Then it laid out an extensive report that i sent back to the
>> Malwarebytes guy.
>> Goodness! By contrast, Trend Micro said " don't worry about it.
>>
>>
>> Jerry Frost wrote:
>>     
>>> I got the message, seems they've lined out some measures. I forgot to
>>> initiate the deep scan thingy yesterday, darn tree! I'll do it now.
>>>
>>> Jer
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
>>> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 7:13 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Pete F! OT:
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>>>> Not quite what i meant, but true anyway.
>>>> Just got the Malwarebytes response, from an actual person!
>>>> It's interesting and i'll forward it to you.
>>>>
>>>>         
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