Ressurected Malware

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by luckystarz77100, Nov 18, 2011.

  1. luckystarz77100

    luckystarz77100 Private E-2

    About a week ago I had somehow contracted the "system fix" virus onto my vista 32bit laptop. I used bleepingcomputer to get rid of it (or so I thought), and have been running scans (mostly out of paranoia) and updating antivirus type things on my computer. I was randomly watching a video and I got attacked in the same fashion as the "system fix" virus only this one was called AV Protection or something like that..... ACTUALLY can't believe (or understand how) this virus in a NEW FORM is back! Went through the process of deleting THIS virus. By now I was wondering why Symantec wasn't picking up these virus's from the beginning when they attacked my computer.

    Downloaded and ran Symantec Protection Support tool and fixed all the problems except one that I cannot/don't know how to fix. The risk that is coming up is:

    Description: Suspicious/Can't repair: Reputation Type: Driver
    Reputation value: There is not enough information about this file to rate it.
    (prevalence: unknown, first seen: unknown)

    MD5 hash: 15CC30154F1C6E581D08B4216927F4D9
    SHA256 hash: 546380153041A4E2671A8910EB12B1A44ABEBCA200050C1DA028DF8ED6E0F228

    File: c:\windows\system32\drivers\smb.sys
    Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Smb



    I googled this "driver" and see that it has history of being linked to an embedded virus. How do I fix/repair this? Please and thank you!
     
  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    It is a false positive. smb.sys is part of vista. ;)
     

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