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miekiemoes' Blog : What's up with McAfee lately?

Tue, 5 Apr 2011 06:00:43 +0000

Hi, above blogpost is from three years ago, because many people who had McAfee installed, were complaining about PC issues and after uninstalling McAfee, issues were resolved. The forums were full of this, so that's why I blogged about it. This was mainly because of incompatibility issues back then, and/or limited RAM. I am sure everything works smoothly again now and I haven't seen this issue for a while. The only times I see it is when people are having it installed on an older OS with limited RAM (which makes sense), or using older versions. McAfee is still a great AV solution.

miekiemoes' Blog : Virut and other File infectors - Throwing in the Towel?

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:03:24 +0000

Yes, there is a possibility your external drive could be infected. The only way to figure out is to have an up to date Antvirus scan your external drive.

miekiemoes' Blog : Please disable Autorun asap!

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:31:42 +0000

Post removed. Thanks for the mention. Looks like the post was edited afterwards.

miekiemoes' Blog : Malware Removal - Where to draw the line

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:56:59 +0000

Hi, If you need help, please see here: http://www.mivercon.be/forum/thread-2612.html

miekiemoes' Blog : Fake sysaudio.sys causes Searchengine Hijack

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:12:05 +0000

Do not delete those files, because those are the legitimate ones as explained in my blogpost. Also, above variant with the sysaudio.sys file doesn't exist anymore as this infection has been updated many times already. If you need help with the popups and redirects, please register at my forum and post a HijackThis log: http://www.mivercon.be/forum/thread-2612.html

miekiemoes' Blog : Virut and other File infectors - Throwing in the Towel?

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:22:37 +0000

There are many variants of Sality and Virut. Here, I am mainly talking about the ones that infects legitimate files and scanners fail to properly disinfect them (in most cases because of the buggy infector itself). Extra note, I don't know if Ad-Aware Pro actually has the ability to disinfect files, because disinfecting and deleting are two different things. That's why, for file infectors, I recommend you use an AntiVirus solution which can actually disinfect infected legitimate files.

miekiemoes' Blog : How to prevent malware

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:51:44 +0000

If I'm not mistaken, if you have Eset Smart Security Firewall, then it automatically disables Windows Firewall already. Also see here:http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&...

miekiemoes' Blog : Registry Cleaners and System Tweaking Tools

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:50:11 +0000

It looks like your exefile association is broken. See here how to fix this: http://filext.com/faq/broken_exe_association.php

miekiemoes' Blog : How to prevent malware

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:05:24 +0000

Thanks. Unfortunately, my time is limited lately, so I have not found the time yet to maintain/update my blog.

miekiemoes' Blog : Registry Cleaners and System Tweaking Tools

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:48:03 +0000

Unclear what link you are talking about. If it's above link, then I'm usure why Norton flags it as there's nothing suspicious/strange there. That page doesn't even contain any scripts.

miekiemoes' Blog : How to prevent malware

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:52:45 +0000

Browsing/surfing is always a risk as you noted, and legitimate sites can be compromised and infect your computer. However, "illegal sites" bring in 90% of the cases malware with it. So if you already know this, then avoid.

miekiemoes' Blog : Registry Cleaners and System Tweaking Tools

Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:37:47 +0000

There's no need for a Registry cleaner at all. There is a need for an Antivirus, because not having an antivirus is somewhat suicidal in today's digital world. Here's a list of the ones I recommend: http://users.telenet.be/bluepatchy/miekiemoes/Lin... (I need to update my list asap). Only install one Antivirus, because multiple together will decrease the reliability of it seriously! The reason for this is that if both products have their automatic (Real-Time) protection switched on, your system may lock up due to both software products attempting to access the same file at the same time. Also because more than one Antivirus installed are not compatible with eachother, it can cause system performance problems and a serious system slowdown.

miekiemoes' Blog : Searchengine Redirects? It could be a patched ws2_32.dll file...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:05:45 +0000

What do you mean with more variants? Above one I explained is the one that patches the legit ws2_32.dll file. There are still so many other variants that causes search engine redirects, which I also explained in older posts in this blog. Most scanners detect and delete these though, so that's why I only post variants here which are a bit more advanced to find in logs. In case you're dealing with a searchengine Hijacker and you can't find the culprit (if no scanners detect it), then I suggest you post your issue on one of the forums mentioned on the right here :)

miekiemoes' Blog : How to prevent malware

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:39:19 +0000

Glad I could help :)

miekiemoes' Blog : How to prevent malware

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:14:40 +0000

Thank you for the kind words :)

miekiemoes' Blog : How to prevent malware

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:45:01 +0000

The reason why mbam has problems with fixing this one is because of a permission issue set on these keys by the malware you were dealing with. Mbam 1.42 (which will be released soon) should be able to fix these properly.

miekiemoes' Blog : IOBit Steals Malwarebytesâ Intellectual Property

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:15:22 +0000

Update: http://malwarebytes.besttechie.net/2009/11/03/iob...

miekiemoes' Blog : IOBit Steals Malwarebytesâ Intellectual Property

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:43:26 +0000

Their declaration is here: http://blog.iobit.com/archives/95.html

miekiemoes' Blog : Miekiemoes rules ?? Yeah right...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:25:39 +0000

Latest variants now use my nick "Miekiemoes" in the Author field of pdf files. :S

miekiemoes' Blog : I don't use an Antivirus, because I have never been infected...

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:23:47 +0000

Update! Also read this excellent Article by David Harley: http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/2009/10/16...

miekiemoes's Comments

miekiemoes' Blog : What's up with McAfee lately?

miekiemoes' Blog : Virut and other File infectors - Throwing in the Towel?

miekiemoes' Blog : Please disable Autorun asap!

miekiemoes' Blog : Malware Removal - Where to draw the line

miekiemoes' Blog : Fake sysaudio.sys causes Searchengine Hijack

miekiemoes' Blog : Virut and other File infectors - Throwing in the Towel?

miekiemoes' Blog : How to prevent malware

miekiemoes' Blog : Registry Cleaners and System Tweaking Tools

miekiemoes' Blog : How to prevent malware

miekiemoes' Blog : Registry Cleaners and System Tweaking Tools

miekiemoes' Blog : How to prevent malware

miekiemoes' Blog : Registry Cleaners and System Tweaking Tools

miekiemoes' Blog : Searchengine Redirects? It could be a patched ws2_32.dll file...

miekiemoes' Blog : How to prevent malware

miekiemoes' Blog : How to prevent malware

miekiemoes' Blog : How to prevent malware

miekiemoes' Blog : IOBit Steals Malwarebytesâ Intellectual Property

miekiemoes' Blog : IOBit Steals Malwarebytesâ Intellectual Property

miekiemoes' Blog : Miekiemoes rules ?? Yeah right...

miekiemoes' Blog : I don't use an Antivirus, because I have never been infected...

miekiemoes' Blog : IOBit Steals Malwarebytesâ Intellectual Property

miekiemoes' Blog : IOBit Steals Malwarebytesâ Intellectual Property