Yeah... well, it'll be up to the user... :D



-----Original Message-----
From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 2:19 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Weird machine issue (home user)

There may be things that no one has discovered yet. Don't forget these AV
products are mainly reactive.

Nuke it :-)

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moment

-----Original Message-----
From: "John Aldrich" <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 13:43:25 
To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>
Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>
Subject: RE: Weird machine issue (home user)

That was my thought, but I ran TDSSKiller and it didn't find anything...
*shrug* I'm sure there are other rootkits, but Vipre Home Premium is loaded
on there as is Malware Bytes. 



From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 1:41 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Weird machine issue (home user)


This is sounding more and more like a root kit of some sort! 
-- 
richard 

"John Aldrich" <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com> wrote on 07/06/2011 12:38:41
PM:

> Another thing is that when you go to add/remove programs, it never shows
any
> programs in there... not sure if it's "hidden" or if it's just so slow
it's
> taking too long to show.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 10:09 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Weird machine issue (home user)
> 
> One of my former co-workers asked me to look at his computer awhile back.
I 
> cleaned a piece of malware off it and he was happy. A few weeks back he 
> called me and said it was acting strange again, so i took a look at it and

> ran the usual tests (malware bytes, Vipre Rescue) and nothing was found. I

> ran the "autoruns" and found a few "suspicious" or unnecessary things at 
> startup so I disabled those. 
> 
> The computer in question is a few years old Dell running XP Media Center. 
> It has Vipre Home Premium on it. This afternoon I ran TDSSKiller on it and

> *that* didn't find anything.
> 
> The main symptoms are just general sluggishness opening *any* app and 
> severe sluggishness on the internet. The internet *could* be the ISP. He's

> getting about 2.5 mb/sec down and should be getting at least 10, from what

> I've been told.
> 
> Anyway, just wondering if anyone has any suggestions on any other
utilities 
> I could try or any other suggestions?
> -- 
> Thanks,
> John Aldrich
> Blueridge Industries
> IT Manager
> 
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