many years ago, the Zeus virus was one of the worst ones around, nearly undetectable and nearly non-removable ...
i had a client whose stock brokerage firm called him up and said his laptop was infected; i was sure the call was a spoof, but when i looked into it, i found out that his brokerage had indeed (somehow) detected the infection.
i looked into a number of tools to detect and delete this thing, and while i was able to detect parts of it and had tools that claimed they had removed it, i wasn’t at all convinced that it was really gone, so i told my client that the only way i could be confident that i got it out was to copy his data files, perform a bare-metal re-install of his OS, drivers, re-install all his software from scratch, and copy his data back, which is what i ended up doing ... very glad to see the bastards that did this got caught ... now if they can just catch, convict, AND publicly execute all of those responsible for ransomware attacks, i’d be a happy camper ...
Wondering if the Russians would want to nail these crooks. Of course that’s assuming the Russian government isn’t involved.
Wondering if the Russians would want to nail these crooks. Of course that’s assuming the Russian government isn’t involved.