March 2nd, 2019 at 12:45 AM
so when I was setting up that windows XP machine I built I did encounter one virus.
it was a nasty one too, couldn't be deleted, edited the windows permissions settings so that it couldn't be deleted, and whenever I tried to delete it, it remained memory resident and just came back almost instantly.
sorta like a stubborn stain that you can't get out without power washing it, and that causes damage to the surrounding stuff.
the AV couldn't delete it, tried mccaffee, avg, norton, avast, malware bytes.
they all found it, quarantined it, but they could not delete it because it was preventing it's sector of the hard drive from being edited in any way.
so I turned to my last resort, Linux.
I loaded up ubuntu onto a flash drive, loaded the latest clam AV, updated it's virus definitions, plugged it into the windows XP machine, then removed the virus manually, edited the registry of any references too it with regedit in wine, then ran clamav to make sure I got every last trace of the thing.
stubborn sucker but it's gone now.
I don't think I've encountered such a pain in the a** virus before lol.
it was a nasty one too, couldn't be deleted, edited the windows permissions settings so that it couldn't be deleted, and whenever I tried to delete it, it remained memory resident and just came back almost instantly.
sorta like a stubborn stain that you can't get out without power washing it, and that causes damage to the surrounding stuff.
the AV couldn't delete it, tried mccaffee, avg, norton, avast, malware bytes.
they all found it, quarantined it, but they could not delete it because it was preventing it's sector of the hard drive from being edited in any way.
so I turned to my last resort, Linux.
I loaded up ubuntu onto a flash drive, loaded the latest clam AV, updated it's virus definitions, plugged it into the windows XP machine, then removed the virus manually, edited the registry of any references too it with regedit in wine, then ran clamav to make sure I got every last trace of the thing.
stubborn sucker but it's gone now.
I don't think I've encountered such a pain in the a** virus before lol.