Bugs Bugs and more Bugs!

[Caged Anger]

God dangit, seems this semester has been particularly nasty for viruses here on campus. Seems every day I have some variant of smitfraud/Vundo in the office causing trouble. I even had one bastard of a bug hop on my flash drive that I use to debug with. Lots of rogue antimalware programs, particularly AntiVirus200x flying around. You guys seeing any of this? What are you guys packing in your bag of tricks lately for bug removal?

My Freeware Arsenol:
MalwareBytes
Dr. Web CureIt (Sounds corny but dang if it doesn't nail some hard bugs)
AVG Free
aSquared Free
Spybot S&D
SpywareBlaster
Autoruns
CCleaner
Unlocker 1.8.7

Right now MalwareBytes nails most bugs while in safe mode no probs but I regularly need to fall back to some others.

[Death Engineer]

I have "fixed" a total of 11 computers for friends and family that have had various issues. Most of these were easy to fix, but a few of them were a bit nastier requiring multiple tools/reboots to fix.

[FUS1ON]

I got this crap a few weeks back, it would lock you out off the .net until you hit the "Enable Protection" button and then wanted you to install their crapass program. I tried running Spybot S&D and it found some stuff and 'fixed' it, I rebooted and could not log into Windows. I did a restore install and got in but it was buggy so I backed up my stuff and formatted. I had not done a fresh install in over a year so I needed/wanted to anyways.

I'd still like to put a foot in the ahole's nutsack. :mad:

[Caged Anger]

aye, seems to be along the same lines

not gonna lie, i would have loved to have worked on your computer before you formatted it. I get the biggest kick out of doing battle with a good virus :)

[EXEcution]

Usually after a google search and a malware scan a software bug is easily repaired. For me, hardware problems are usually the hardest to identify and fix. For instance I had a guy at work who's computer would get past POST and then just reboot over and over again. I wasn't even able to force a stop error (BSOD).

I finally managed to circumvent the Windows problem by installing a new hard drive with a copy of Ubuntu on it. Now all seems well. I no longer view open source software and Linux as a last resort.

[Slay]

I've use Ccleaner for a while and it seems to do the job, I use it after browsing different sites. It cleans up all the trash that sites leave in you cashe. :thumbs: