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2. Alureon - Wikipedia

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   The "FixMbr" command of the Windows Recovery Console and manual replacement of "atapi.sys" could possibly be required to disable the rootkit functionality before anti-virus tools are able to find and clean an infection. [citation needed] Various companies have created standalone tools which attempt to remove Alureon.

3. Rootkit - Wikipedia

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   This is because antivirus and malware removal tools running on an untrusted system may be ineffective against well-written kernel-mode rootkits. Booting an alternative operating system from trusted media can allow an infected system volume to be mounted and potentially safely cleaned and critical data to be copied off—or, alternatively, a ...

4. WinFixer - Wikipedia

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   WinFixer. WinFixer [a] was a family of scareware rogue security programs developed by Winsoftware which claimed to repair computer system problems on Microsoft Windows computers if a user purchased the full version of the software. The software was mainly installed without the user's consent. [1] McAfee claimed that "the primary function of the ...

5. Ramnit - Wikipedia

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   Ramnit is a computer worm affecting Windows users. It was estimated that it infected 800 000 Windows PCs between September and December 2011. [1] The Ramnit botnet was dismantled by Europol and Symantec in 2015. [2] At its peak in 2015, Ramnit was estimated to have infected 3,200,000 PCs. [3] Ramnit infects removable media such as USB drives ...

6. Computer virus - Wikipedia

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   Examples of Microsoft Windows anti virus and anti-malware software include the optional Microsoft Security Essentials (for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7) for real-time protection, the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (now included with Windows (Security) Updates on "Patch Tuesday", the second Tuesday of each month), and Windows ...

7. Spyware - Wikipedia

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   Such programs inspect the contents of the Windows registry, operating system files, and installed programs, and remove files and entries which match a list of known spyware. Real-time protection from spyware works identically to real-time anti-virus protection: the software scans disk files at download time, and blocks the activity of ...