[TriLUG] Virus Question

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

I've also heard of Norton and McAfee each labelling the other as a virus 
and trying to remove it, so YMMV.

William Sutton

On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, Scott Lambdin via TriLUG wrote:

> I have heard Windows specialists say that they use multiple anti-virus
> softwares and regularly find cases where one catches the problem and the
> others do not.
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> --Scott
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> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 11:50 AM, via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
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>> Hi all – have not posted in quite sometime.  Right now, I am stuck and
>> lookingfor some hope.  My computer has picked upthe Cerber Ransomeware.
>> This is my workcomputer and I do have secure backups Jun 5, so the only
>> thing at risk is mywork from the last week. My 2 questions are 1)    Can
>> Itrust that Windows Defender has removed the ransomware itself?  I am
>> monitoring the # of *.cerber files andit seems to be steady, but any
>> sentence with the phrase “Can I trust a M$product” is a little tough. 2)
>> Can I useRestore to recover what I created last week? The infection
>> occurred yesterday, Sun Jun 12.  The last work was on Thu Jun 9.   3)
>> Whatelse did I not think of? This is an HP Pavilion laptop, running
>> Windows10, AMD A6-6310 CPU, 64 bit. Thanks
>>
>> Dave  davethebald at yahoo.com
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