Tron isnt really good at all in my opinion it causes more harm then good

@@novaUT He mentioned that.

Hey Leo. Did you happen to try renaming the tools to see if that would allow them to run? I've had luck doing that before.

As long as when the Tron script is running it is playing the soundtrack from BOTH movies, I'm ok with it!! 😁😎

But can any of them remove McAfee?

The malware might infect your backups which results in them not working.

@@david09baz backups should be encrypted and your system shouldn't have write access to existing backups

@@a.x.w Exactly - "air gapped" (as much as I dislike that term). At work people sometimes rib me for still using tape, but it's cheap, fast, and I can look at all those cartridges on the shelf and say to myself "encrypt that" during any potential ransomware attack.

True. But how do you know you haven't backed up an already infected system?

I would say yes, but also no. All in all, it still depends on the status quo. If the most recent clean backup was a day ago before the infection, by all means recovering from a backup (should) be fine. But if the most recent clean backup was 6 days ago (weekly backups), or 29 days ago (monthly backups), we're talking days and weeks of potential data / progress being wiped out completely. Of course this is briefly speaking and it obviously gets more intricate, but this video is nice for techs like us to keep up with their tool-belt and be prepared / made aware of more options to consider if such an incident were to occur.

No problem mate

Yes bro, Norton will remove your malware and install his own

@@oskkim2163 common Norton W

@@oskkim2163 😂😂😂😁

@@oskkim2163 Norton is Notorious 😁

bruh literally. you can use it to remove your malware while it probably mines for crypto in the background

You're correct but I don't do cleanups. Nuke and rebuild is my solution

@@shaggydawg5419 Yes, there’s always the “Nuclear Option.” As simple as this option actually is, I’ve learned that most people simply won’t go down this road. I would say that the nuclear option is the #1 approach to virus & malware removal. That’s why I primarily use Linux as my operating system.

@@rb2287 People don't want to lose documents and/or start over from scratch. I'd rather lose a little bit of data (that hasn't been backed up yet) than risk an unstable system with a potential of reinfection or hidden malware. There's no way I'm going to use an infected system even after it's been cleaned and multiple malware products find nothing in it.

​@shaggydawg5419 how do you "nuke" your computer? I got a maleware and I got a ransom message. I'm planning on nuking but idk how

@@taxcollector8858 I was referring to reinstalling the operating systems. Use other computer to download and create a Windows setup media on a USB flash. Turn off the infected PC and turn it back on. Boot off the USB device with Windows setup and delete the entire partitions on the infected hard disk. Start with a fresh Windows 10 or 11 installation.

Bingo! Now this idea I like.

Yes but this was much quicker.

@@pcsecuritychannel May be Quicker, but useless. @TheRossMadness is right, trying to clean a corrupted system from this live system is absolutely unreliable. The only way to do it right is using an external system. Otherwise, you can never be sure to have really cleaned up the system. It is a basic concept in IT security.

In my experience, for Windows anyway, doing things from safe mode is also a half-way decent option and normally solves most problems. Though it doesn't help against rootkits or bios attacks, but at least it'd help with things that want to be running on top of everything else (and most need internet to run, which safe mode doesn't allow).

@@dyanosis 1) In my line of work, that is Computer Security, there are no half-measures : You cannot be mildly confident that you have solved the issue. My customers want to be sure the problem is gone, not half-sure, with a half-baked solution, and what you recommend does not do the job. 2) Thank you for proving my point, you said it yourself : Your solution does not help against rootkits/trojans. And I want to be sure to deal with them. 3) You don't know well windows : You can run safe mode WITH Network enabled, it is an option. Enjoy, and Peace !

@@philpeko1796 While you may be correct, there's no need to be aggressive about it. He does have 'something' of a point after all- in all honesty windows safe mode, while NOT a panacea by any means, is a useful but often-overlooked tool these days. And while security is always something to be done in absolutes, the way things are done at home is often different from the business world- at home there's no concern for liability or partnerships or tax breaks or write-offs etc etc, which can dictate decisions that in other cases wouldn't happen. For example MWB is the name in the game for AVs, but when the business pays for norton, that's what you're stuck with. There's also the simple matter that a full reinstall... Honestly isn't that bad these days. Personal treasures like photos and writing aside, I could probably do a full, fresh reinstall and re-setup of my home pc in under an hour. That was NOT the case when I had dial-up. And if a system is infected to THAT degree a full reinstall might not be that bad of an option. Not always an option, obviously, but it's something more worth considering than it perhaps once was.

Hey I have this current problem dude, THE EXACT ONE., which service helped you bro? And was your malware capturing your screen like mine is ? It’s scary stuff I need help

well if you want to save some money u can create new accounts for malwarebytes and get 14days premium each time

Hey how's it going ? I'm a bitdefender user and I like it a lot, I'm a bit of a layman in this subject but when I used both, I didn't see much difference between the two, one thing I noticed was that the bitdefender panel has more settings than kaspersky.

Thats not possible anymore since secure boot uefi

That sounds scary

@@Dead_Weight21 It really was. I also found all sorts of strange files inside my Google Drive, like a few Linux distros and such. I of course never put them in there. When I was trying to clean the system, I found a folder inside the Windows directory with around 100 .ps1 files (Powershell scripts) and I copied them over to a removable drive for later analysis. Sadly, they were gone when I went to find them again. Not sure if my AV killed them silently or if the threat actor deleted them. I really wish I would have kept more of what I found because the malware was amazingly robust.

This happened to me in 2021. My S8 picked it up immediately after Samsung stopped updates w/o notice. - To make a very long story short, I ditched Samsung & I use quite a bit of google/chromium stuff now and EVERYTHING is either still infected, (or re-infected). Your post is the closest description to what I've been struggling to with. I could go on forever - I would love for an expert to analyze it all. It's really quite crazy how these system apps or APKs manipulate my network and devices, then hide & respawn like weeds.

​@@slamscaper128what the actual hell? How can reinstalling windows can end up reinfecting your system? That's terrific

@@riperroxd7664 The malware was very advanced and has multiple ways of remaining persistent after a reinstallation of Windows.

kaspersky is always better

Uh oh? Not the treats! It might attract a dog! 😟