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  1. Hey Marcus, sounds like you have the variant similar to the one I saw the other day. Depending upon which variant, you may or may not be able to use a usb drive on the computer. If you can (and be careful because it may infect the drive), then download the malwarebyes install file on another computer and then right-click on it and choose rename. Type in mbytes in place of mbam-setup. Once that is done, you can copy it to a usb drive, and then copy it from there to the infected computer. You will now be able to install malwarebytes, but it most likely will not run after it is installed. If this is the case, you will have to browse the c: drive and go to Program Files, and then MalwareByte's Anti-Malware. Open that folder and you will see a file named mbam that has a red square icon with a white letter "M". Right-click on that file and choose rename. Type in mbytes in place of mbam and click OK. Now double-click the mbytes file and the application will start. It is not actually necessary to use mbytes for the name of the files, you can type anything you want, as long as it isn't the name of a file that this particular variant of the malware is blocking. I hope this helps.
  2. Thanks for the info, I will give that a try next time I run into a computer infected with it.
  3. I have just recently run across this malware. It apparently now has some sort of process killer and is disabling several network services at boot up. You can get around the services being disabled by booting into safe mode with networking, however, the process killer is still live and will kill any attempt to install any software, and also will close your web browser whenever you attempt to navigate from the page it opens to. Attaching any kind of external drive while the malware is live will infect the external device. I found this by trying to copy the mbam setup file from a usb key. The key was never accessible on the system, but the system accessed it long enough to infect it. I ended up slaving the drive to copy the mbam setup file to the drive, but then was unable to install even in safe mode. This malware is getting particularly nasty. Is there any type of tool malwarebytes has to offer that can be run from a bootable usb device or a bootable CD?
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