>June 30, 2011
“Sorry, but the TDL botnet is not ‘indestructible’ “<
Correct. Just like that MS wackadoo who announced that the Alureon rootkit is also indestructible, I laugh at these “experts” who scare Win users.
Of course what do I know. I used to consult for Kaspersky and Norton. The TLD4 is the nastiest MFer on the planet and every malware and rootkit guy I know has seen it do damage. The Alureon class 1-4, I detected on other clients laptops and it was fairly easy but time consuming to clean. The TDL botnets and rootkits re-write the registry on occasions so you have to use instinct by utilizing a registry cleaner and if that annoys you, use OTS which corrects the re-written code automatically.
Just to show everyone how nasty the TDL’s are, I actually witnessed it shut down the Malwarebytes pro version dead in it’s tracks. That’s the pro version, not the free one.
I ran into the same problems, I used Google to search some financial information, and a search return that I clicked on installed the virus of “XP Security 2012” pop-up virus.
I easily got rid of it, but as a result, I bought an Apple iPad 2 and now do all my searching, web browsing with it.
Screw the massively defective Windows garbage. Been surfing the web freely for over a month. And NO troubles at all.
The iPad is an absolutely amazing product!!!
Is there a good diagnostic tool for root kits?
I have only had one, and the simple solution was to reload the system.
I have used SchmidtFraudFix (spelling may not be right) on a really nasty bug, think it was complements of the U.S. Gov. Made a mistake one day chasing news and wound up on a militia site and after a few moments something shut down my system and my anti-virus program had to neutralize it each time I rebooted. Used every tool in my tool kit and nothing worked, one of our IT guys told me about that tool and it worked. It is a totally command line tool for really nasty stuff.