| things seem worse lately I actually ran across an interesting malware infestation recently. The machine had 2 user accts and 1 admin acct, yet the user accts could not install anything, could not get on the Internet, had popups, etc. Upon further investigation, I found that the 2 user accts had been changed into guest accts, and the admin acct had been monkeyed with.
I mean, there was no password for the admin acct, yet upon going into Control panel/User accts, there were NO users listed. You couldn't change them to a regular user. Even the admin acct could not change services, etc.
It's as if someone remotely setup another admin acct, locking out all the other accts. Needless to say that machine got re-formatted and reinstalled pronto...
But yes things seem worse lately than they did before, Malware-wise. |
