Typically, they are encouraged to purchase decryption tools from the cyber criminals who designed the ransomware.ĪBAT renames each file by changing its filename to an email address, a string of random characters, and adding the ". Malware of this type encodes data so that victims are unable to access their files without using decryption methods. So I would report what their CPU % is as this is an actual figure and not cumulative and see if it is excessive.Discovered by dnwls0719, ABAT is a new variant of Matrix ransomware. I generally don't monitor CPU time, but currently my total for explorer is only 14 seconds, I don't use IE but firefox is 55 seconds, my system has only been on for 2 hours 21 minutes and I have been on-line for a little over an hour. For both of these files I would expect them to be in use for much more than 6 minutes, of course it would depend on how long the system was up overall. I would be looking at the CPU % that they use, iexplore and explorer from because time is irrelevant and if you use IE for your default browser. I know this I wouldn't like to have a suspect restore point in the C:\System Volume Information\ folder just waiting to bite me in the rear. Moving it to the chest is zero work run the scan again (folder select, just the system volume information folder) and when detected, click the Move to chest button, done.
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Moving to the chest is the safest option as it isn't the same as it is a protected area and also allows for reversal of any decision where deletion doesn't. It could be that at some point you removed an infected file in the system folders and system restore saved a copy in the C:\System Volume Information\ restore point. However, it could mean that if you use the system restore in the future (if you didn't move it to the chest) you could reinfect your system when using system restore to a point in time that would include that restore point. This means that it isn't crucial, at worst that restore point wouldn't be available in the future.
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Well things in the C:\System Volume Information\ folder are there because they have been removed/replaced or moved from the system folders, so it is a back-up for that action. Apparently even on the disk now, the Zuma Deluxe file is coming back infected, and it was put on that disk with no infections. I purchased the game, Zuma Deluxe, in 2005, 100% legit from Yahoo's websites, so I know it's not a suspicious file.Īlso, before I created the DVD backup disk, every file was scanned with Avast and all files at that time were fine. When I went to play about 2 weeks or so ago, I got a message from Avast telling me the file Zuma.exe is infected with Win32:Trojan-gen. Also the game was running 100% fine, no errors, no warnings, nothing.
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Now all of a sudden when it hits my hard drive it gets infected. Something else that is interesting about all of this is I placed this file onto a backup DVD disk I created in June, and the file back then was clean. But when I uploaded it to virustotal, I didn't receive any error's, or messages from avast, the file was sent to virustotal without warning. I scanned the file just before I wrote this reply, it is still infected.
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Also here's a link to my on-going problem in the forum,