System Tool 2011

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by Caliban, Dec 31, 2010.

  1. Caliban

    Caliban I don't need no steenkin' title!

    Hi, guys.

    Just to let you know - I've cleaned 3 machines in the last week infected with the rogue antivirus System Tool 2011. Don't know if that constitutes a virus outbreak or not, but it sure is unusual for this area.

    One machine had XP, the other two Vista. Malwarebytes cleaned enough to allow me access to get in and edit registry entries, after which I was able to run the Malware Removal procedures listed here. All machines are up and running now.

    Couple of oddities: the only common ground I could find from user interviews was that all 3 machines had been used to access Facebook - I don't know if the infection came from Facebook, but it's a likely candidate.

    The other strange thing was that the infection is not necessarily system-wide - on two of the machines, only one account was affected.

    Again, just a head's up - kudos to you guys, and keep up the good work! :major
     
  2. dr.moriarty

    dr.moriarty Malware Super Sleuth Staff Member

    :)

    Thanks for the post, Caliban - we began seeing this around mid October.
    Safe surfing! http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj5/drmoriarty/Emoticons/char145.gif
     

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