Malware Discussion

[DeadliestMoose]

Hey guys, I recently had a nasty run in with a suspicious torrent and thought I might start up a thread on here to see what kinds of scary stuff is out there. Any horror stories and general information on malware is welcome and appreciated. That torrent I mentioned earlier was like nothing I've seen before; it was a full file size (2GB or so) and ramped up my CPU usage and clock speed to max. Offline backups are the savior of my network on this one; ALWAYS HAVE ONE. 

[Snickerzz]

Dont download torrent porn?

[Bloodyvalley]

LOL this thread

[tkhakr]

I usually only torrent things with lots of seeders.

[DeadliestMoose]

Dont download torrent porn?

It wasn't... this time. All joking aside, can anyone tell me what the hell I got infected with?

[Snickerzz]

It wasn't... this time. All joking aside, can anyone tell me what the hell I got infected with?

when you scanned your comouter with whatever anti malware it should have told you

[DeadliestMoose]

when you scanned your comouter with whatever anti malware it should have told you

I didn't even give it enough time to report it before I pulled the plug since RealTempGT was reporting some hot temperatures (55 at idle and rose to 65 degrees in about 20 seconds or so). 

[Henry]

I've never had a virus. Period.

Ok some adware, but nothing dangerous.


Norton 360 ftw (no hate pls )

[Snickerzz]

I've never had a virus. Period.

Ok some adware, but nothing dangerous.

Norton 360 ftw (no hate pls )

jesus christ .-. how do you live with that? (<<not hate btw)

[Henry]

jesus christ .-. how do you live with that? (<<not hate btw)

Its only overprotective sometimes. Especially when I download um...stuff (NOT PORN)

[Analog]

I've never had a virus. Period.

Ok some adware, but nothing dangerous.

Norton 360 ftw (no hate pls )

 

My favorite Antivirus as well! Unfortunately I can't get it to work properly on my Windows 8.1 and there are no new torrented versions out there... I had to move on to the AVG Antivirus 2014 (paid version). 

Anyway, on topic, once I saw a virus that can potentially delete all of your files on the primary HDD if you double click on the file (virus)... That s*it is crazy   

 

PS: Torrenting was legal in the Netherlands where I live until 2 days ago.

[Snickerzz]

Its only overprotective sometimes. Especially when I download um...stuff (NOT PORN)

i used norton when i got it free from my isp then i realized how god awful it was personally i just use MS security essentials for real time protect and malwarebytes for virus scan/removal

[Henry]

My favorite Antivirus as well! Unfortunately I can't get it to work properly on my Windows 8.1 and there are no new torrented versions out there... I had to move on to the AVG Antivirus 2014 (paid version). 

Anyway, on topic, once I saw a virus that can potentially delete all of your files on the primary HDD if you double click on the file (virus)... That s*it is crazy   

 

PS: Torrenting was legal in the Netherlands where I live until 2 days ago.

I have it on my laptop which is running 8.1 and its perfectly fine.

Are you running the newest Norton 360?

[Analog]

I have it on my laptop which is running 8.1 and its perfectly fine.

Are you running the newest Norton 360?

 

Nope, I have the old 2013 early revision... Do you have a link for the new version? 

[Henry]

Nope, I have the old 2013 early revision... Do you have a link for the new version? 

Its on the website. Or you should try updating norton. It should work. If not, use your key and use that for the new norton 360.

[Akolyte]

I would think you got miner malware. It uses your system to mine bitcoins for someone else. Alternativley a Trojan could have been doing some sneaky stuff. I'm an avg volunteer, so I'm biased. I recommend AVG

[DeadliestMoose]

I would think you got miner malware. It uses your system to mine bitcoins for someone else. Alternativley a Trojan could have been doing some sneaky stuff. I'm an avg volunteer, so I'm biased. I recommend AVG

Thanks for the info. Hopefully I won't run into any more of those. I used to use Norton 360 ,but I switched to AVG because Norton kept doing random checks in the background and alt tabbing me out of games to tell me.

[Akolyte]

Thanks for the info. Hopefully I won't run into any more of those. I used to use Norton 360 ,but I switched to AVG because Norton kept doing random checks in the background and alt tabbing me out of games to tell me.

AVG will automatically enable game mode. Which will stop it running unneeded tasks

[TheGamingBarrel]

My favorite Antivirus as well! Unfortunately I can't get it to work properly on my Windows 8.1 and there are no new torrented versions out there... I had to move on to the AVG Antivirus 2014 (paid version).

Anyway, on topic, once I saw a virus that can potentially delete all of your files on the primary HDD if you double click on the file (virus)... That s*it is crazy

PS: Torrenting was legal in the Netherlands where I live until 2 days ago.

I hope you mean illegal (Pirating) torrenting? Torrenting itself is just Peer to Peer file sharing and people just happen to use it to illegally distribute things

[Analog]

I hope you mean illegal (Pirating) torrenting? Torrenting itself is just Peer to Peer file sharing and people just happen to use it to illegally distribute things

 

Yeah, I mean pirating. It was legal, however there was a law suit about that between the EU and the Netherlands, which lasted for a couple of years. Last week the European Court of Justice ruled against the state of Netherlands making pirating itself illegal. Before that once you buy a piece of mass storage (HDDs, SSDs,Phones, etc.) from a store, one had to pay 5-15 euros more to cover intellectual property losses from potential pirating.