Capman Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Never heard of this until today, could be worth keeping an eye on. http://connect.micro...m/systemsweeper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted June 6, 2011 Administrator Share Posted June 6, 2011 Nice find. Will have to give it a go sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted June 11, 2011 Administrator Share Posted June 11, 2011 I gave this a bit of a try, you have to use a USB stick, or CD/DVD to burn this onto. You can also get an ISO which is nice as well. It was roughly 200MB to download inside of the program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capman Posted June 11, 2011 Author Share Posted June 11, 2011 Did you actually use it to try to start an infected PC as well? I'm still waiting for a situation like that to come up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted June 12, 2011 Administrator Share Posted June 12, 2011 No, I have yet to do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capman Posted June 12, 2011 Author Share Posted June 12, 2011 Hopefully the situation will arise for one of us soon then so that we can report back on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Hopefully the situation will arise for one of us soon then so that we can report back on it. Yeah, hopefully someone gets their computer infected with malware... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capman Posted June 12, 2011 Author Share Posted June 12, 2011 It wasn't a case of hopefully someone will get their computer infected soon, that is a certainty. It is more a case of hopefully they will bring it to me to sort out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_A Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 The immediate download is not much more than a download manager: with some added logic. It won't run, for example on Windows Server, otherwise it allows you to choose between burning a CD, copying to a blank USB drive or burning an ISO file. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capman Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 Finally got a chance to try this tonight. A neighbour popped up on Facebook chat asking for help because her laptop was claiming to be infected, and she couldn't get on the internet any more. I told her to bring it over, sure enough it was infected, with a rogue anti-virus, I think it was called Windows 7 Anti-Virus or something like that. It wouldn't let me run MBAM, so rather than mess around trying things, I downloaded Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta , booted from it and it found 3 severe/high alert threats that it dealt with. Once it restarted I installed MBAM, SAS and avast using a cd that I burnt in May, so it has old definitions on it, but they still found a lot things to delete. Tomorrow I will connect it to the internet, update the definitions and then scan again. The main thing is though, Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta got me to a stage that the computer was more usable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted June 13, 2011 Administrator Share Posted June 13, 2011 A neighbour popped up on Facebook chat asking for help because her laptop was claiming to be infected, and she couldn't get on the internet any more. Does this seem a bit strange to anyone else? Mindboggling! :o Nice to know it has positive results. I'm really proud of how Microsoft is getting involved and taking quality strides in PC security. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capman Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 A neighbour popped up on Facebook chat asking for help because her laptop was claiming to be infected, and she couldn't get on the internet any more. Does this seem a bit strange to anyone else? Mindboggling! :o Is it strange? It happens to me all the time with loads of people asking for help on Facebook. She is actually a regular too, and one of the only ones that I don't charge to get it sorted. She is a single mum in her thirties with 5 kids, her husband died about 3 or 4 years ago, I just don't have the heart to charge her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted June 14, 2011 Administrator Share Posted June 14, 2011 Just making a bit of fun of the fact she messaged you on Facebook saying she couldn't get on the Internet anymore. But to use Facebook surely you'd need Internet. A very bad joke, I'm sorry! Forgive me! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_A Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 ... sure enough it was infected, with a rogue anti-virus, ... Seems to be everywhere, now. Probably because they each make about $24,000,000 per year selling this fraudulent stuff. Glad to read that the MSSS caught it, because they can be difficult to get a grip on when they disable the EXE file association in the Registry. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capman Posted June 14, 2011 Author Share Posted June 14, 2011 Just making a bit of fun of the fact she messaged you on Facebook saying she couldn't get on the Internet anymore. But to use Facebook surely you'd need Internet. A very bad joke, I'm sorry! Forgive me! Sorry, it was late, I always tend to get carried away and stay up late when working on a computer because I like to get them back to the owner as soon as possible. If I had waited until today to read your post I would of got the joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_A Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Is it strange? It happens to me all the time ... Now that the penny has finally dropped, your earlier reply seems even funnier Reminds me of The IT Crowd I've also seen it before, people reporting on forums that they can't access the Internet. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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