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Former Member
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Fixed it. It was a keylogger hiding in my processes called WDC.exe. When i tried to end it. It denied me access and i went through all of the data/program files trying to remove it. To no avail I just wound up having to do a complete swipe of my hard drive and rebuild the OS to factory settings. After that it works great again and if anyone in the future has a similar issue you could pass it along. Thanks for your assistance though.
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mikey
Veteran Cruncher Joined: May 10, 2009 Post Count: 826 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Fixed it. It was a keylogger hiding in my processes called WDC.exe. When i tried to end it. It denied me access and i went through all of the data/program files trying to remove it. To no avail I just wound up having to do a complete swipe of my hard drive and rebuild the OS to factory settings. After that it works great again and if anyone in the future has a similar issue you could pass it along. Thanks for your assistance though. If you don't have, and run, an anti-virus and malware program, you NEED to! Obviously you HAVE been infected in the past so your current/old ones didn't preform up to par on your machine. Check out the review websites and pick a good one that you like, most importantly though....UPDATE THEM FREQUENTLY!!! I personally use Microsoft Security Essentials and MalwareBytes as my programs, I use the free versions on most of my pc's, but MalwareBytes is on sale sometimes for a lifetime license for $10US. ![]() ![]() |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Sometimes malware will slip past AV and other protection (that's why they have to issue updated definitions) and then deflect cleaners like MBAM, so it's recommended to run a program like RogueKiller (secondary download site, and official tutorial)... it will stop suspicious programs and allow your malware cleaners and AV programs to remove the infection(s). i.e. after RogueKiller does its scan and stops the rogue process(es), run MBAM or other 'cleaners' without rebooting or even quitting RogueKiller.
Note the official tutorial is in that first post, not its embedded video. And where it says "Quit all programs" that includes BOINC Client and Manager (using File->Exit, and check the box next to 'Stop running science applications..." in the dialog that pops up) - otherwise RogueKiller will see the application(s) as 'rogue' and stop them anyway. In my experience, RogueKiller stopping the task application(s) doesn't damage the results (you just lose the crunching time since the last checkpoint(s)), but I figure why risk it. |
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