Tips for Computer Infected Ramnit Virus

after knowing characteristics, here are the steps to remove viruses delivered Ramnit Alfons Tanujaya, Vaksincom antivirus analysts, to ITGazine, Tuesday (01/02/2011).
Because infected files ending in exe, dll, and html, then cleaning should be done in DOS mode. To facilitate cleaning please use the Windows Live CD Mini PE, then downlad free tools Dr.Web CureIt! To be optimal, we encourage all media including hardsisk and flash is scanned first. This is because Ramnit will put some storage media.
Before doing the cleaning should block viral duplicate files by using the feature 'Software Restriction Policies'. This feature is only there on the operating system Windows XP Pro, Vista, 7, Server 2003 and Server 2008.
Connect an external flash or any hardsik to the computer. Then download the application free Dr Web Live CD at the following sites. After it was over done, the user can continue the following steps.

   1. After a successful software Dr.Web LiveCD download, burn into CD / DVD
   2. Connect the flash and external to the computer hardsik
   3. Booting the computer through a CD / DVD ROM
   4. This will bring up the screen 'Welcome to Dr.Web LiveCD
   5. Select 'Dr.Web LiveCD (Default)' and press 'Enter' key on your keyboard
   6. Wait a few moments to appear Dr.Web LiveCD interface that will display the applications 'Dr.Web Scanner' automatically. Dr.Web Scanner is working to examine your computer from possible virus
   7. To scan the hard disk, on screen 'Dr.Web Scanner' select location of the drive to be in check and make sure you check list option 'Scan subdirectories' for Dr.Web can conduct examination on the directories and subdirectories for optimal cleaning. If the screen does not appear Dr.Web Scanner double click the icon 'Dr.Web Scanner' found on the Desktop.
   8. Then click the [Start] to begin the examination process
   9. Wait a while until the scan is completed. If you find any viruses, Dr.Web will inform the infected file and the type of virus that infects the virus information is available column.
  10. Click the [Select All] to select all the objects / files to be in the clear or you can specify which files would you clean it with a check list on the options available
  11. then click the [Cure] to clean up files that have been infected with a virus
  12. Wait until the cleaning process is completed
  13. Scan the computer to ensure clean your computer from viruses
  14. Restart the computer. 

Good Luck

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Characteristics of Computer Affected By Ramnit Virus

Although relatively new, but the virus spreads very fast Ramnit. Here are the characteristics of the computer that contracted the virus from information received  from Vaksincom, Tuesday (01/02/2011).
1. The virus will make your Internet Explorer browser displays a page containing advertising deals, games, and sometimes pornographic image around in large numbers continuously for internet connected computer.
2. Further symptoms are, removable media icons turn into a folder icon. After that users can not access the flash with a warning Access is denied. And finally there are also messages Compressed (zipped) Folders when clicking on the drive.
3. It comes a lot of files with the file name 'Copy of Shortcut to (1). Lnk' s / d 'Copy of Shortcut to (4). Lnk' in the flash user. This file is used by the virus to reproduce itself when a user executed.
4. One of the unique and very easy to make this virus is active and difficult to eradicate is that every time a user right-clicks. Besides displaying the right click menu, indirectly computer users also have been running this virus.
In addition to these characteristics, note also that Ramnit also has a master file that has been prepared in directory [% USB Flash%: \ RECYCLER \% nama_acak%. Exe].
This virus will also infect files with extension exe, and any exe files that are infected will have 107KB size larger than initially. Also Ramnit will duplicate the file in the same folder.

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Beware of Ramnit Virus Attacks

After some horrendous virus like Stuxnet, Sality, Virut and Shortcut, there are now Ramnit that is equally sophisticated. This malicious program is able to 'cooperate' with other viruses to infect the victim.
Yes that's the uniqueness Ramnit compared with other viruses. After infect the victim computer, these malicious programs will download variants of other viruses.
And even more confusing, the type of virus that you download will be different for each target computer either from the name and size. This is what causes many antivirus programs although difficult to perform detection and cleaning.
Based on information received from Vaksincom , Tuesday (01/02/2011), this virus not only spreads via the Internet, but also through other media such as flash by using the Autorun function.
Another action that will be done by this virus is injected exe files that have extensions, etc. and htm / html file either an application program or Windows file system. Each file is injected to increase the size of about 107-109 KB.

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