Now pointlessly enhanced with AI
Malware comes with interesting way to deceive users that they are not malicious in any ways. This particular malware has a peculiar icon which looks like a folder marked “ENLISTED” and photo of U.S. Marine.
This particular malware bears filename of “svc-mdek.exe” which is classified as “Rogue.WindowsExpert” by MalwareBytes Anti-Malware.
Yet another Malware sighting, and this one disguised itself as “System Care AntiVirus”. I use both Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and Microsoft Security Essentials to get rid it. Internet Explorer seems to be the entry point of this Malware on this particular computer.
It’s a computer running Windows 7 with tons of services failed to load. I suspected that there was something wrong with the file system. So I scheduled a Check Disk.
It is interesting how different Web Browsers render fonts. I wonder why Google Chrome on this particular computer running Windows 7 doesn’t render the fonts correctly.
I’ve gotten a call earlier today from a friend because his computer has been locked by “The United States Department of Justice”. In addition to that “The United States Department of Justice” demands computer owner to pay $300 to unlock the computer “avoid other legal consequences”.
First and foremost, The United States Department of Justice does not run such operation.
This is a ransomware. It replaces Windows 7 shell with its own executable file. Booting the computer to plain “Safe Mode” or” Safe Mode with Networking” will load the malicious executable. Instead, boot to “Safe Mode with Command Prompt” and manually remove the malicious software.
I’ll describe what I did in the next post.
Seriously, who would still want to install Windows Vista?
Acer still provides Windows XP drivers for Veriton VX4618G series. The one I’m working on is Veriton VX4618G-Ui7s60W. It comes with Windows 7 Professional.
When running windows on virtual machine is not enough, I fired up Boot Camp on the Mac mini to install Windows 7.
Previously I was running Windows in Parallels 7, unfortunately there are some hardware that wouldn’t interface correctly in the virtual machine.
