Huntchat TECH Alert! live security platinum

[GoodOlBoy]

Since I do this for a living anyway I thought I would start passing the information on the bad infections on to my huntchat family.

Live Security Platinum

This is a new virus/malware/worm that slides right past every known active scanner. Once it infects it pulls down a metric ton of garbage and installs it and bogs your machine.

I have edited to retract this cleanup method as they require payment to remove it once it is scanned. Once I find the right method I will post it.

GoodOlBoy

[GoodOlBoy]

alrighty here is the removal method. It SHOULD work if you follow the instructions. I had one machine that took extra effort to get it to go off.

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=110630

GoodOlBoy

[Jack]

Good advice. Thanks, GOB

[skeeter@ccia.com]

GOB, I just got done with geek squad..my kaspersky found mal/spyware trojan...could this be the one you speak of?...anyhow, they cleaned things up..funny thing though, I just renewed virus protection with best buy and geeksquad a month ago..it showed some now working..but i was not registered even though they took my $ back then...and I had made few calls back then to ensure it was all working etc etc.. seems fine now..thanks for heads up.

[GoodOlBoy]

Skeeter, it could be anything. There are almost unlimited number of spyware and malware out there.

Here is my normal cleanup routine.

#1 run Steve Gould's cleanup program to remove temp files and garbage (makes scans run faster)
#2 update and run malwarebytes (may have to repeat this step a couple of times with reboots)
#3 update and run microsoft security essentials (my choice for home AV as it is free, AND it works better than alot of the paid programs I have found)
#4 run all the windows updates and get the machine up to date.
#5 if that doesn't clean it up then it is time for a reformat.

GoodOlBoy