LizaMoon infection: a blow-by-blow account

Very interesting article by Fred Langa at Windows Secrets. He deliberately allowed LizaMoon to infect his system and gives us the details. Good screen captures, too

LizaMoon infection: a blow-by-blow account

That's similar to what happened to me, those real looking warnings at the time of infection, and MSE was my AV at the time. I couldn't access any of my security apps, no online scanner, finally it shut IE8 down totally.

As in this case, both MBAM & MSE couldn't clean every trace of the malware, and only a reformat & reinstall fixed things. Those type of infections are very nasty, and takes hours to remove.

After that happened, I started running the ESET Online Scanner weekly, it usually found things that MSE missed, but these missed items were not as dangerous as the nasty one.

Very interesting.

Cat