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To: Hostage

No way to do it if the machine is compromised.


7 posted on 07/31/2015 8:12:29 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: dinodino

Doesn’t Malware Bytes detect these things?


9 posted on 07/31/2015 8:13:32 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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He’s right. There is no way to have any confidence in anything now running on this machine. Although you can save your documents and such, I would scan any content you pull from the compromised machine on an entirely different computer. [In fact, I would scan it with two different virus scanners if it was one of my clients.] Just because a file isn’t an “executable” that doesn’t mean you can’t be tricked into opening it in a way that re-installs malicious code, so even supposedly “safe” content has to be approached as if it’s compromised until proven otherwise.


15 posted on 07/31/2015 8:21:19 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Dindunuffin.)
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