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Can I ask how did you become aware the machine was infected? Does not most malware hide itself? The way you describe it seems like it was easy for you to know.
by 14 8y ago
Can I ask how did you become aware the machine was infected? Does not most malware hide itself? The way you describe it seems like it was easy for you to know. I consider myself pretty tech savvy but not sure how I would be aware if I had malware other then obvious things like page hijacking. Thanks
- mschuster91 8y ago> Does not most malware hide itself? The "cryptolockers" not, and what also regularly happened in the IE heydays was that suddenly there's a dozen toolbars in IE and every click anywhere would trigger another popup window with ads.
- 14 8y agoOh man, being old enough to remember those times I do not miss it. I do not miss dial up speeds as well.
- mschuster91 8y agoAt least the toolbars were easy enough to remove...
- xenophonf 8y agoMost malware isn't designed by the likes of NSA, Mossad, FSB, or PLA, so you get reports unusual/excessive processor/storage/network activity. The time between something new showing up on the wildlist and antivirus/middlebox vendors creating signatures is also pretty short, so most of the time it's the antivirus/middlebox itself alerting you. Also, malware with only regular user permissions can only do so much. This isn't like the good old days where everyone was logged into an administrator account or local privilege escalations were bountiful. Nowadays, you're stuck in an unprivileged login session that can't normally install a rootkit without giving yourself away via a UAC prompt.
- empath75 8y agoThis was back in the windows 95/2000 days when it was mostly pop-up malware.