Hello,
I believe my home network had a botnet (?) Why? Firstly my desktop started doing strange things eg, mouse control wasn't good and I though I had a virus orsome kind of malware. Eventually the infection spread to my notebook and a friends notebook. The spread through the network was the first reason I thought it was a botnet with possible ketlogging and I don't doubt, eventual DDoS attacks would have happened. The security software, firewalls, spybot searchers etc were all at some stage switched off (on more than one occassion. Registry entries were deleted eg, entire user profiles and on and on. Both notebooks are up and running but I am very concerned that my back-ups are infected. Its mostly the music, photo, video files I would like to get back but there are also important docs,pdfs etc on the external backup. If i scan the back-up drive and download files one by one or in small batches, sandboxing them,do you think I can recover them? Can mp3, wav, AAC,mp4, & other music files bring this monster bug back? What about static images eg, photo.raw, jpeg, gif, tif, png, and many more file types, hide this thing. Biggest concern is video and movies. There are some video files that I can not lose, only a few. The rest I don't care. I'd like to get some documents, especially some pdfs off I I could but I guess when it comes down to it its the photos and that small amount of video that I just can't lose. The funny thing is (yeah hillarious right) I have at least four back-ups of these files bujt they will all have the same malware/botnet on them. I was just thing that downloading into a sandbox individual files (making a much smaller transfer) might prevent the same catastrophe from happening again. It's not something I ever want to go through again. The only good thing to come out of it was that I decided to completely rebuild and update my desktop with an Intel 2nd generation processor! Hope you have some suggestions otherwise I'm in huge trouble. I'm not hugely tech minded but i can usually follow directions and find my way around with a little help and my dumb questions. Cheers, Mink.
I believe my home network had a botnet (?) Why? Firstly my desktop started doing strange things eg, mouse control wasn't good and I though I had a virus orsome kind of malware. Eventually the infection spread to my notebook and a friends notebook. The spread through the network was the first reason I thought it was a botnet with possible ketlogging and I don't doubt, eventual DDoS attacks would have happened. The security software, firewalls, spybot searchers etc were all at some stage switched off (on more than one occassion. Registry entries were deleted eg, entire user profiles and on and on. Both notebooks are up and running but I am very concerned that my back-ups are infected. Its mostly the music, photo, video files I would like to get back but there are also important docs,pdfs etc on the external backup. If i scan the back-up drive and download files one by one or in small batches, sandboxing them,do you think I can recover them? Can mp3, wav, AAC,mp4, & other music files bring this monster bug back? What about static images eg, photo.raw, jpeg, gif, tif, png, and many more file types, hide this thing. Biggest concern is video and movies. There are some video files that I can not lose, only a few. The rest I don't care. I'd like to get some documents, especially some pdfs off I I could but I guess when it comes down to it its the photos and that small amount of video that I just can't lose. The funny thing is (yeah hillarious right) I have at least four back-ups of these files bujt they will all have the same malware/botnet on them. I was just thing that downloading into a sandbox individual files (making a much smaller transfer) might prevent the same catastrophe from happening again. It's not something I ever want to go through again. The only good thing to come out of it was that I decided to completely rebuild and update my desktop with an Intel 2nd generation processor! Hope you have some suggestions otherwise I'm in huge trouble. I'm not hugely tech minded but i can usually follow directions and find my way around with a little help and my dumb questions. Cheers, Mink.
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