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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1114937" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>And just a heads up on the virus or whatever it is that installs this thing. After the first round of work with the guys at bleepingcomputers, their suggestion was to blow it away and reinstall and immediately disconnect it from all network access. They may or may not be able to get rid of it all. </p><p></p><p>This is a nasty. It will steal any passwords and pass them up the line. It's the underlying nasty that actually downloads and installs the Security Suite virus all on it's lonesome. Had one computer that I was able to get the Security Suite removed, come in 2 days later and it had re-installed itself.</p><p></p><p>This thing was running under the process name svchost which is used by a number of legitimate Windows processes. It would also turn itself on after hours and shut itself down prior to our normal working hours. The mornings I was coming in early, it'd be running the CPU full bore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1114937, member: 24160"] And just a heads up on the virus or whatever it is that installs this thing. After the first round of work with the guys at bleepingcomputers, their suggestion was to blow it away and reinstall and immediately disconnect it from all network access. They may or may not be able to get rid of it all. This is a nasty. It will steal any passwords and pass them up the line. It's the underlying nasty that actually downloads and installs the Security Suite virus all on it's lonesome. Had one computer that I was able to get the Security Suite removed, come in 2 days later and it had re-installed itself. This thing was running under the process name svchost which is used by a number of legitimate Windows processes. It would also turn itself on after hours and shut itself down prior to our normal working hours. The mornings I was coming in early, it'd be running the CPU full bore. [/QUOTE]
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