{"id":62,"date":"2009-08-10T21:43:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T20:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2010-09-15T07:49:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T06:49:10","slug":"win32-tdss-rtk-skynet-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"win32.tdss.rtk skynet attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=text-align:left;><a class=\"wpptopdfenh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noindex,nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/?p=62&#038;format=pdf\" title=\"Download PDF\"><img alt=\"Download PDF\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-post-to-pdf-enhanced\/asset\/images\/pdf.png\"><\/a><\/div><div id=\"attachment_61\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61\" title=\"trojan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/trojan-virus.jpg\" alt=\"TROJAN\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-61\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TROJAN<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The other night I noticed my laptop was getting slower and slower.\u00a0 Being an IT professional and knowing I wasn&#8217;t running anything major I realised my laptop had been infected by something bad.<\/p>\n<p>After running SPYBOT it showed that I had SKYNET trojan installed on my pc and it was going to happily remove it.\u00a0 Unbeknown to me it HAD NOT.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight after running SPYBOT a couple of times I realised it wasn&#8217;t getting rid of this horrible hidden menace.<\/p>\n<p>So to help anyone that has got this my recommendation is an application called Combofix. It HAS successfully removed this little menace. It does take a little bit of time, but a highly recommended solution.<\/p>\n<p>I hope my ramblings can help others out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night I noticed my laptop was getting slower and slower.\u00a0 Being an IT professional and knowing I wasn&#8217;t running anything major I realised my laptop had been infected by something bad. After running SPYBOT it showed that I had SKYNET trojan installed on my pc and it was going to happily remove it.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}