to be clear, I don't mean run a scan now, but to check the logs and quarantines for activity from On Access/AutoProtect type protection that could have happened when no one was monitoring the server.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:18 AM, James Rankin <kz2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Yes, but I don't have much faith in the AV software of choice (Trend). > According to it, everything is hunky-dory. MalwareBytes didn't detect > anything on a full scan either. I'm pulling up some Process Monitor logs now > to see if there are any needles in that haystack. > > On 16 August 2011 13:09, Erik Goldoff <egold...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> have you already checked your AV quarantine for the presence of these >> DLLs, or at least the detection/risk log to see if *that* is why they're >> gone before you can get to them ? >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 6:41 AM, James Rankin <kz2...@googlemail.com>wrote: >> >>> I've just got back from my holidays so I'm probably still not thinking >>> straight....but has anyone noticed dll files with random names that appear >>> in *c:\windows\serviceprofiles\localservice\appdata\local\temp *when a >>> 2008 R2 server boots up? By the time I get to checking for them, they are >>> gone. The reason I know they are there is because my whitelisting >>> application doesn't allow executable content to have its ownership >>> overwritten, and when the servers boot up, they are logging an event >>> regarding an attempted ownership overwrite >>> >>> *AppSense Application Manager intercepted the overwrite of the allowed >>> executable 'c:\windows\serviceprofiles\localservice\appdata\local\temp\* >>> random_8_character_filename*.dll' on ''servername'. Ownership of this >>> file was changed to that of the user* >>> >>> I've never noticed this happening before, and the randomised filename >>> screams "malware" at me - but I have scanned the system with Trend and >>> MalwareBytes, and can find no trace of any infection. By the time I dig into >>> the folder to check, there's nothing there. Does anyone have any idea why >>> these files would be appearing at boot time? 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