FD-ISR Virus Breakthrough - 1st Time

Discussion in 'FirstDefense-ISR Forum' started by silver0066, Jul 31, 2008.

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  1. silver0066

    silver0066 Registered Member

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    Just for information:

    I downloaded a program, installed it, and it caused a huge virus on reboot. Big red screen asking for me to obtain some sort of anti spyware program.

    I checked the file out first with Avira, Malwarebytes and Rising with no results.
    Anvir Task Manager Pro picked it up on execution, but did not stop it even though I told it to delete it when the pop ups came up.

    I restored an FD-ISR snapshot that I had just made before the install, and I ended up with a white screen and no Start Menu items.

    Luckily, I had just made a backup image with SP and everything restored just fine. I have been using FD-ISR for at least 2 years and never had this happen.

    Rising is now off of my system and I am trialing Online Armor along with paid DefenseWall. Seems to use very few resources.

    Silver
     
  2. Osaban

    Osaban Registered Member

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    Was the program that you downloaded suspicious in the first place? I suppose you wouldn't want to disclose the name of it.
     
  3. silver0066

    silver0066 Registered Member

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    It was suspicious.
     
  4. EASTER

    EASTER Registered Member

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    I ran a virus on doing some testing research about 8 months ago and it rendered all but 2 of 8 snapshots useless & unbootable.

    The key is keep archives of your snapshots OFF-CONNECTION to another Hard Drive and no matter what screws up your FD-ISR snapshots or archives on the system disk, you can easily wipe it out, format & reinstall windows anew, then reinstall FD-ISR, connect your SAVED archives HD (unbootable) as a secondary slave to the freshly installed new system, and FD-ISR will return your snapshots back again 100% completely intact thru a Copy/Update routine.

    Been thru that myself before when i didn't have a ready image to turn to and it worked like a charm.
     
  5. silver0066

    silver0066 Registered Member

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    Easter,

    FYI, the snapshot I restored that was bad was on an Archive on another drive.
     
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