What I wanna know is how you dead shits manage to get these viruses in the first place...I mean it totally amazes me. Do you guys just download warez all day long or something?
It is no surprise what so ever that mining trojans are now in the wild. A decent botnet could generate some massive profit via bitcoin mining. Now they don't need to lend out their botnets to anyone or deal with stupid spam.
All they need to do is make the victims PC run some mining app in the background and they have a constant money inflow. This will only continue to gain popularity amongst botnet owners.
In order to avoid becoming a part of such a botnet one must take the proper precautions when browsing and downloading from the internet. 95% of the time these precautions will keep you clean.
What are these precautions you may ask? Well there are a few simple things you can do to immediately increase your defenses exponentially. These instructions are aimed at users of Windows machines.
1) Have a good virus and malware scanner (eg Avira AntiVir and MalwareBytes)
2) Have a good firewall(s) and system monitor (eg COMODO and WinPatrol)
3) Have some sort of spam-filter for your emails and don't open anything suspicious.
4) Use the NoScript and AdBlock Plus browser add-ons or similar. This is important,
you are much safer to disable scripting on all websites and white-list those
that you trust. NoScript for Firefox is very good.
5) Don't run suspicious files and always scan files before you run them unless you
trust the file is 100% safe. Keep an eye on your Firewall and system monitor to
see if the file tries to do anything suspicious.
There are many other things you can do, and although some of those things may appear to be quite complex or tedious at first it really is worth the extra effort to do these things.
I was wondering the same. How'd he get it in the first place, not stating he is a morn either.
Those are very good suggestions, I've been using these utility's and + more for a long time.
I could add to the suggestions as well.
With the above +
Superantispyware, Microsoft Security Essentials[In which runs in the back ground, monitoring etc.]
CCleaner which everybody should know of.
I recommend as said above Comodo x64, specially if you are on a Win7 64bit OS. Set you Comodo firewall to CUSTOM and not SAFE MODE.
HiJackthis + a recommended security forums.
I probably missed a few but with this above quote & what I post is pretty much damn tight security.
