maillon
Honorable Pirate
Greetings again lads,
Working on the laptop which had the Cerber Ransomware virus I discussed in an earlier thread, I stumbled upon some stuff I thought to be general knowledge, but apparently are not. This thread is worth a read for Anyone experiencing strange issues on their systems from time to time.
For people who do not spend their entire day working on and with computers, and even for some who do, the importance of running anti-malware programs alongside your antivirus can not be taken lightly, you should also do weekly scans with AntiSpyware tools, just to be thorough.
This laptop in my hands came up with 156 infected files on first AV scan, after which I reconfigured everything, when I went to windows updates however it would not run, and trying to manually update windows update itself resulted in errors. Conclusion - Malware. This device has never run any anti-malware program, thus, I ran a full scan using MalwareBytes. NOTHING came up.
Confused I ran a quick anti spyware scan, just to check things. It came up with 30 threats in under 2 minutes. Now doing a full scan with this tool, in the hopes this will be able to find everything.
What I want to say with this post is; only Avast or AVG or any antivirus isnt enough, run a program like Malwarebytes alongside it. especially for the uhmmm.. Pirates.. in the forum.. Not our kind of pirates, you know.. the ones from the... "bay".
Working on the laptop which had the Cerber Ransomware virus I discussed in an earlier thread, I stumbled upon some stuff I thought to be general knowledge, but apparently are not. This thread is worth a read for Anyone experiencing strange issues on their systems from time to time.
For people who do not spend their entire day working on and with computers, and even for some who do, the importance of running anti-malware programs alongside your antivirus can not be taken lightly, you should also do weekly scans with AntiSpyware tools, just to be thorough.
This laptop in my hands came up with 156 infected files on first AV scan, after which I reconfigured everything, when I went to windows updates however it would not run, and trying to manually update windows update itself resulted in errors. Conclusion - Malware. This device has never run any anti-malware program, thus, I ran a full scan using MalwareBytes. NOTHING came up.
Confused I ran a quick anti spyware scan, just to check things. It came up with 30 threats in under 2 minutes. Now doing a full scan with this tool, in the hopes this will be able to find everything.
What I want to say with this post is; only Avast or AVG or any antivirus isnt enough, run a program like Malwarebytes alongside it. especially for the uhmmm.. Pirates.. in the forum.. Not our kind of pirates, you know.. the ones from the... "bay".