Comments on: Got an infected machine? http://spamhuntress.com/2006/07/08/got-an-infected-machine/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:24:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Joe http://spamhuntress.com/2006/07/08/got-an-infected-machine/#comment-23843 Sun, 09 Jul 2006 22:24:55 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2006/07/08/got-an-infected-machine/#comment-23843 I would suspect the trojan attacking your site isn't purely original. Scanners may already be able to detect it. Even if a scanner can't remove malware, it may detect and block the unusual activity. The problem is, many of those who have infections likely aren't going to do anything about it until their machine is so unusable they are forced to. I would suspect the trojan attacking your site isn’t purely original. Scanners may already be able to detect it. Even if a scanner can’t remove malware, it may detect and block the unusual activity. The problem is, many of those who have infections likely aren’t going to do anything about it until their machine is so unusable they are forced to.

]]> by: reg http://spamhuntress.com/2006/07/08/got-an-infected-machine/#comment-23820 Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:37:07 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2006/07/08/got-an-infected-machine/#comment-23820 I'm sure you're right in general, Joe. But what program can nix the trojan that keeps up the denial of service attack against my site? I might be nixed by anything that removes DollarRevenue related trojans, though. But the particular trojan with code against my site wasn't distributed that widely - or so it appears to me. Sure, there are LOTS of machines that are infected. But they appear to do burst DDOS'ing, then go dormant. Then maybe there's another burst a few days later. I’m sure you’re right in general, Joe. But what program can nix the trojan that keeps up the denial of service attack against my site? I might be nixed by anything that removes DollarRevenue related trojans, though.

But the particular trojan with code against my site wasn’t distributed that widely - or so it appears to me. Sure, there are LOTS of machines that are infected. But they appear to do burst DDOS’ing, then go dormant. Then maybe there’s another burst a few days later.

]]> by: Joe http://spamhuntress.com/2006/07/08/got-an-infected-machine/#comment-23817 Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:14:45 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2006/07/08/got-an-infected-machine/#comment-23817 Before I would mess with HijackThis, I would try to remove things with Spybot, AdAware, and (if you are willing to pay) Spyware Sweeper. I ran into a really nasty one not too long ago that only HijackThis and Spyware Sweeper could find. Manually removing it was not working, it just kept comming back. But when they recommended Spyware sweeper I bought it and have been happy with the quality. Before I would mess with HijackThis, I would try to remove things with Spybot, AdAware, and (if you are willing to pay) Spyware Sweeper. I ran into a really nasty one not too long ago that only HijackThis and Spyware Sweeper could find. Manually removing it was not working, it just kept comming back. But when they recommended Spyware sweeper I bought it and have been happy with the quality.

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