{"id":11193,"date":"2014-03-01T19:53:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T03:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=11193"},"modified":"2017-04-04T09:21:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T16:21:45","slug":"malware-malware-and-more-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/03\/01\/malware-malware-and-more-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Malware, Malware and more Malware."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past week I have been removing a lot of Malware from a lot of computers running Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Some are harder to remove than the others. In general I&#8217;d like to avoid the Scorched-Earth scenario whenever possible, as it is the last resort.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Malware-Script.jpg\" alt=\"Malware Script\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of ways to remove Malware, there is not a single solution.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever removing Malware from Windows computers I tend to boot to <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/304449\" target=\"_blank\">Safe mode with a Command prompt<\/a> and remove any Malware reference from &#8220;Run&#8221; key in the registry and Start from Programs Menu.<\/p>\n<p>Some tools\/programs that I use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/download\/rkill\/\" target=\"_blank\">RKill<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/download\/adwcleaner\/\" target=\"_blank\">AdwCleaner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/download\/combofix\/\" target=\"_blank\">Combofix<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Malwarebytes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.safer-networking.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spybot &#8211; Search &amp; Destroy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I then use Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/malicious-software-removal-tool-details.aspx?ppud=4\" target=\"_blank\">Malicious Software Removal Tool<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/scanner\/en-hk\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Safety Scanner<\/a> to for the second run of Malware removal.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of other tools\/programs that I use to remove the Malware whenever necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past week I have been removing a lot of Malware from a lot of computers running Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Some are harder to remove than the others. In general I&#8217;d like to avoid the Scorched-Earth scenario whenever possible, as it is the last resort. There are a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/03\/01\/malware-malware-and-more-malware\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Malware, Malware and more Malware.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[266,267,720,1966,1967,2511,2526,2556,2648,2792,936,3033,3129,3216],"class_list":["post-11193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-news","tag-adware","tag-adwcleaner","tag-combofix","tag-malware","tag-malwarebytes","tag-resources","tag-rkill","tag-rootkit","tag-security","tag-spybot","tag-tech","tag-trojan","tag-virus","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-2Ux","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16135,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193\/revisions\/16135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}