At Boxaid we definitely see every kind of computer problem out there on a daily basis. Many are repetitive but some are unique. We thought we would share one virus that did a pretty good job of making the PC very difficult to clean. The malware falls under the generic trojan category which infects a machine by the typical trickery that says “Your PC is infected, click here to remove” when you go to an unsuspecting website. As the user is tricked into clicking the link and downloading the executable to their machine it does the usual stuff of embedding itself in the Windows folder and making sure it starts up when your machine boots up by hiding itself in the registry. None of this is anything new. A subsequent scan with malware bytes removes the trojan but Malwarebytes has trouble changing the host files back to its original state. Read the rest of this entry »
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