Virus or not?
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So about 2 years ago, I went to a state contest on computer maintenance. Basically A+ stuff, I have some knowledge of it, but i'm still able to fix problems. on one scenario, I had to remove a "virus" that got into internet explorer. The homepage was changed and some other settings and the homepage words says "PWNED"/"HACKED" with a green skull on it.
I downloaded a anti-virus and malware-bytes and didn't find nothing. Then I went to the local of the IE and delete everything that was changed and put it to default setting.
Now that I notice, I'm starting to think it wasn't a virus or there was one, but I didn't find it.
Thoughts?
>>53893658
Did you check the registry for malicious keys?
should have installed gentoo
>>53893845
I did not, I didn't even thing about it at the time.
>>53893658
Forgot to mention, it was all set up on a virtual program like a test so I wouldn't think the judge made the scenario too complicated
>>53893973
99% of windows viruses use registry for persistence, it's always the first place you should look.
>>53894210
How can you even know if something was added to the registry? There's a shitton of keys and you can't sort all of it by modification date
>>53894237
Are you retarded?
>>53893658
>state contest on computer maintenance
wait, you mean like with prizes for being the best IT monkey?
>>53894432
How is being in computer maintenance similar to being an 'IT monkey'?
>>53894487
his first reaction was to download antivirus and run that. monkey see, monkey do, monkey poo in the loo.
>>53894412
No he's a stupid spic given away by his grammar
>>53894237
There usually aren't that many keys in run registries so it's not hard to figure out which ones are malicious. If there are a lot of keys in your run registries than your boot time is probably slow as fuck.
