{"id":7132,"date":"2011-11-26T20:21:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T04:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=7132"},"modified":"2011-11-26T20:21:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T04:21:36","slug":"malware-alert-cloud-av-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/11\/26\/malware-alert-cloud-av-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Malware Alert: Cloud AV 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday November 23rd, 2011; the day before Thanksgiving Day I received a call.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hey, just want to let you know I was using my computer and Cloud AV 2012 just installed itself.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s a Malware.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Malware-Cloud-AV-2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Malware-Cloud-AV-2012\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Malware-Cloud-AV-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was getting ready for my Thanksgiving trip, so I had to work on this malware problem later. Bleeping Computer has a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/virus-removal\/remove-cloud-av-2012\" target=\"_blank\">instructions on removing Cloud AV 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am documenting what I&#8217;m doing to remove Cloud AV 2012.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I want to know if\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/combofix\/how-to-use-combofix\" target=\"_blank\">Combofix<\/a> can completely remove Cloud AV 2012. I ran Combofix in Safe Mode with Networking. It took about 15 minutes for Combofix to find some malware and removing them, unfortunately it is not enough.<\/li>\n<li>The next step is to run <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malwarebytes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Malwarebytes&#8217; Anti-Malware<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Malwarebytes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Malwarebytes\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Malwarebytes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>I ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safer-networking.org\/en\/spybotsd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Spybot &#8211; Search and Destroy<\/a> to clean up whatever part of malware it can find.<\/li>\n<li>I ran Combofix again, and it found a few leftover Cloud AV 2012 files.<\/li>\n<li>Reboot the computer a few times and so far I do not see any suspicious activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to put this computer on quarantine for a few days and see if Cloud AV 2012 is completely gone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday November 23rd, 2011; the day before Thanksgiving Day I received a call. &#8220;Hey, just want to let you know I was using my computer and Cloud AV 2012 just installed itself.&#8221; Yeah, that&#8217;s a Malware. I was getting ready for my Thanksgiving trip, so I had to work on this malware problem later. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/11\/26\/malware-alert-cloud-av-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Malware Alert: Cloud AV 2012&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[946,4],"tags":[699,1966,2511,2648,936,3039,3216],"class_list":["post-7132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-cloud-av-2012","tag-malware","tag-resources","tag-security","tag-tech","tag-troubleshooting","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1R2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132","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=7132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}