Inactive Sality.AU and Sality.AT

[kintaro]

After noticing that I cant access my task manager and reg files I feel that something bad is happening so I started installing few malware/virus scanner like malwarebytes and Microsoft security essentials malwarebytes found nothing but after I finished installing MSE and started quick scan after update after the quick scan MSE found about 20-30 affected files(affected mostly unused programs and reg files)

I am aware that my Laptop is in deep danger and I want to save it... if I can. I am planning on backing up most of my files (about 800GB).but before that I need to know what to do first before backing up all my files and what file types dose sality infects to avoid further spread of the malware/virus/worm

 

[Broni]

You are infected with a polymorphic file infector. This infection can and will infect all the machine's executable files .exe, .scr, .rar, .zip, .htm, .html. Because there are a number of bugs in its code, it may create executable files that are corrupted beyond repair resulting in an inoperative machine.

Malware experts say that a Complete Reformat and Reinstall is the only way to clean the infection. This includes All Drives that contain following files:
*.exe
*.scr
*.htm
*.html
*.xml
*.zip
*.rar
*.doc
*.jpg
*.pdf

Backup all your documents and important items only.
DO NOT backup any files mentioned above.

I suggest you do the following immediately:

* Call all of your banks, credit card companies, financial institutions and inform them that you may be a victim of identity theft and to put a watch on your accounts or change all your account numbers.
* From a clean computer, change *all* your online passwords -- for email, for banks, financial accounts, PayPal, eBay, online companies, any online forums or groups you belong to.
* DO NOT change passwords or do any transactions while using the infected computer because the attacker will get the new passwords and transaction information.

 

[kintaro]

Done backing up some of my files and securing my acc... is there any way to clean the .jpeg .rar .zip file types?

 

[Broni]

No

 

[kintaro]

Another question... dose the malware/virus got the ability to infect other pc connected to the LAN or Wi-Fi? I got 2 more pc here...the 2pc is on LAN and the infected laptop is connected via Wi-Fi... im worried if they get infected

 

[Broni]

No, unless you shared some files.