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PC Attack - Undo the Trojan.VUNDO
by John Eley
A few days ago my PC suffered an attack that threatended to escalate. My
PC became compromised just before Christmas. I wondered whether my
passwords and credit card details would be stolen. Fortunately I found a
fix for the problem.
Windows Updates was rendered unoperational, which was very worrying.
Norton Antivirus detected trojan.VUNDO. It appeared to fix the problem,
but then immediately reported the problem again.
Your computer could be farmed for sensitive information, such as credit
card details and passwords. A criminal knows that if a PC is cut off
from software support, either antivirus or operating system, he can
exploit that at his leisure.
It is important when you realise that you cannot get security updates
you eliminate this problem. Do not ignore it, even if the rest of your
computer's functionality appears to be intact. The temptation to just
carry on or postpone finding a fix must be resisted or it could lead to
disaster.
The first thing to try is to download the updates manually, but in my
case this was knocked out as well. My pc was totally cut off from help
from the software vendor.
The next resort was to go to the Windows forums and discussion groups to
find an independent route to getting a fix. A report of the same problem
was quickly found after doing a search of the discussion group. A
software package was recomended that could deal with this problem. The
package in question had the major advantage that it was free! It is
called Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.31 and it can be found at http://www.malwarebytes.org/
and I strongly recommend it.
There are paid versions as well. Updates are brought out every few days
and so they are clearly responding to new threats rapidly.
There is a continual battle going on between criminals and the Internet
community. Online fraud is always a potential problem for anyone who
uses the Internet. However, it is good to know that companies like
Malwarebytes are there providing solutions. They definitely knew how to
undo the VUNDO for me!
- John Eley MSc.
- http://www.pcfixproblem.com
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