Browser spyware and the like

[debrooker]

What a right off today has been,

spent most of the day riding myself of the TDSS rootkit which is a cunning little bugger. Had to keep sending our support guys emails saying its not me trying to view all those p0rn sites.

TRANSLATION: Firefox and I.E. kept redirecting me to dodgy sites when I was clicking links from Google searches etc.

right - back to work

[Ewan]

Sounds like your support people need to beef up their anti-malware knowledge

[glen_j]

surely your support guys should be taking care of the problem for you :) failing that use malwarebytes. its very good at removing rootkits ect

[debrooker]

[quote=Ewan;440913]Sounds like your support people need to beef up their anti-malware knowledge[/quote]

ar5e and elbow come to mind. :)

[Planehazza]

[quote=debrooker;440893]Had to keep sending our support guys emails saying its not me trying to view all those p0rn sites.

[/quote]

Excuses, excuses... :D

What AV do they use?

[glen_j]

problem is the root kit isn't a virus so an av won't pick it up ;)

[Planehazza]

[quote=glen_j;440922]problem is the root kit isn't a virus so an av won't pick it up ;)[/quote]

I see. I work in IT myself but I'm not up to date with all of the different malware types :redface:

[debrooker]

[quote=glen_j;440922]problem is the root kit isn't a virus so an av won't pick it up ;)[/quote]

Thats correct, and half the problem. If anything more than clicking a button is required our guys fail. :)

[glen_j]

yeah me too. lots of fun keeping on top of root kits and malware. the other one that seems to be getting through are fake antivirus programs that try to con folks out of money.

[Ewan]

[quote=glen_j;440929]yeah me too. lots of fun keeping on top of root kits and malware. the other one that seems to be getting through are fake antivirus programs that try to con folks out of money.[/quote]


You must mean Norton!!