lewmur Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 I just did a fresh install of Win 7 pro on a Dell Inspiron 1440. Installed all of the MS Updates. Opened IE ONLY to install Chrome. Visited no other sites. Used Chrome to install drivers from Dell Support. Visited no other sites. Installed Chicalogic's PC Sheild (based on Malwarebuytes) from a USB stick and updated its database. Scan found 1 trojan and 33 PUPs. Where did they come from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Is your install media factory original and non-writable? Installed Chrome from where on the Internet? They might be unknowingly serving a few extras. When was the last time that USB had a thorough scan? All possible sources of the malware you found. The old rule still applies, "never connect an unprotected system to an outside network." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Hello, Are you certain it is not a false positive report? Regards, Aryeh Goretsky 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewmur Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 (edited) Is your install media factory original and non-writable? Installed Chrome from where on the Internet? They might be unknowingly serving a few extras. When was the last time that USB had a thorough scan? All possible sources of the malware you found. The old rule still applies, "never connect an unprotected system to an outside network." The Win iso was d/l'd from MS's TechNet and Chrome installed from its site and not a third party site. Hmmm!! Come to think of it, I haven't checked that USB stick in a while. Hello, Are you certain it is not a false positive report? Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Yes, I'm certain. Edited March 29, 2015 by lewmur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Hello, Can you share a log of what was found? Regards, Aryeh Goretsky 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrine Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Opened IE ONLY to install Chrome. Visited no other sites. Used Chrome to install drivers from Dell Support. You might want to reconsider your opinion of IE, at least based on this report, The programs with the most security vulnerabilities in 2014 were not the ones you think, bold added: Google Chrome headed the list with 504 vulnerabilities, followed by Oracle Solaris (483), Gentoo Linux (350) and Microsoft's Internet Explorer (289). Apple's Mac OS X placed 13th with 147 vulnerabilities, with Microsoft's Windows 8 in 20th place (105). That aside, have you determined it was somehing on the USB stick? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewmur Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 Opened IE ONLY to install Chrome. Visited no other sites. Used Chrome to install drivers from Dell Support. You might want to reconsider your opinion of IE, at least based on this report, The programs with the most security vulnerabilities in 2014 were not the ones you think, bold added: Google Chrome headed the list with 504 vulnerabilities, followed by Oracle Solaris (483), Gentoo Linux (350) and Microsoft's Internet Explorer (289). Apple's Mac OS X placed 13th with 147 vulnerabilities, with Microsoft's Windows 8 in 20th place (105). That aside, have you determined it was somehing on the USB stick? All browsers in Windows are security risk as far as I'm concerned. But I use Chrome in Linux and so, prefer it. I was just trying to show I hadn't visited ANY sites, in either IE or Chrome, that should have caused a problem. And, yes, it turns out the USB stick was infected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 You don't need to open a browser in an Internet-connected, unprotected Win installation for it to become totally corrupted. And, yes, it turns out the USB stick was infected. Wow! That sucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atiustira Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 What variant was the USB stick infected with? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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