Furtivex Malware Removal Script v7

Hi,

Thank you for the feedback.

I can lessen the 'aggressiveness' of FMRS in the future, but it wasn't designed to allow video capturing software and Sandboxes to run alongside with it. FMRS goes off a whitelisting system regarding processes and tasks, this is why you experienced this issue

I feel I've already been transparent about this, both in this topic and on the website and knew I would receive some backlash about this (I already have), and that's OK. I think each person has the right to their own approach on how to remediate malware or optimize their computer. If the way FMRS does it is not to your liking, that's perfectly OK. I am also not trying to reinvent the wheel so to speak, but take a rather different approach.

I can attempt to explain my thought process on this subject, but if you're the type of person to shut down the computer via power switch, it worries me that you won't understand my perspective at all. This, as you should know is also highly not recommended and tends to lead to hardware failure and data corruption.

Cited from the resource page:

• Aggressive process termination. All non-essential processes are shut down while the program scans. A small whitelist is maintained.
  
• Aggressive RunOnce cleaning. All RunOnce entries are purged from the Windows Registry.
• Aggressive Task Scheduler cleaning. This is a unique feature of the tool compared to others in its category. A small whitelist is maintained. Tasks, are a primary persistence mechanism that the bad guys use to ensure that their malicious software continues to load on the system after a set amount of minutes / hours, etc..

While it could seem scary or worrisome that FMRS deleted many Tasks that fall into the legitimate category, I am of the perspective that your legitimate software will still continue to function, and 9/10 will recreate the entry (a new scheduled Task) next time you intentionally launch the application .

Tasks that are prohibited or protected from being deleted by Windows, are included in this task whitelist FMRS utilitizes. The rest, in my opinion are fair game to modification. Tasks from your antivirus software are also a part of this whitelist. If there is ever a problem with Windows Defender tasks being deleted for example, let me know as that's definitely a non-intended action, even though they are currently not 'protected' by the OS.

Tasks that are already damaged, or indicate their linked target FILE is no longer present, show up to clutter online forum logs with (No File) lines. This is yet another reason why FMRS purges tasks in such an aggressive manner. Many helpers opt to include as part of their fix to the infected user, to delete those tasks as well -- even though they are from legitimate software that no longer exists on the system. i.e. user uninstalled said software a while ago

I hope this helps to understand my position, once again, thank you for the honest feedback

 

Thank you for the feedback and for spending time to test the effectiveness of FMRS