Windows 10: This nasty ransomware overwrites your PC's master boot record

Discus and support This nasty ransomware overwrites your PC's master boot record in AntiVirus, Firewalls and System Security to solve the problem; A new malicious program now makes it even more difficult by completely locking victims out of their computers. The new Petya ransomware overwrites... Discussion in 'AntiVirus, Firewalls and System Security' started by Borg 386, Mar 28, 2016.

  1. BORG 386
    Borg 386 Win User

    This nasty ransomware overwrites your PC's master boot record


    This nasty ransomware overwrites your PC's master boot record | PCWorld

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    Borg 386, Mar 28, 2016
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  2. REY BEL1
    Rey Bel1 Win User

    KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE when trying to update windows 10

    Hi,

    If you're not using any other third-party virus detection software, we recommend that you use Windows Defender to scan your device. Even when offline, this tool runs from outside of Windows kernel so it can target malware that can infect or overwrite the
    master boot records.

    Regards.
     
    Rey Bel1, Mar 28, 2016
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  3. OLDPAINT
    oldpaint Win User
    Ransomeware

    This article was posted about 5 days ago.
    http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/petya-crypto-ransomware-overwrites-mbr-lock-users-computers/

    It talks about overwriting the MBR and encrypting the drive. So I assume these are 2 separate processes. At first since the article mentioned overwriting the MBR, I thought maybe having a GPT partition would stop the encryption, but now I'm thinking at best
    maybe having a GPT partition would prevent the part of the attack that stops the pc from booting up, but the files would still be encrypted.
     
    oldpaint, Mar 28, 2016
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