Re: Possible Malware?

[Kurt Buff <kurt.buff () gmail com>]

If, as OP states, the Administrator account has been removed from the
Administrators group, it's likely that this won't work.

It depends (and I can't remember this off the top of my head) on
whether or not the Administrator group has security privileges
independent of its membership in the Administrators group, and if it
does, that any malware hasn't also removed those privileges.

As I said, better to either boot from a USB drive or remove the hard
drive and mount it in another machine to do your work.

Kurt

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Khaled Zayed <khaled0319 () gmail com> wrote:
> Hello Joe,
>
> Please try the following:
>
> Log into the machine as an administrator and temporarily remove the
> user's profile and save it somewhere like inside of the share drive.
>
> Download Malwarebytes and update and scan the machine for malware. You
> can also do this step in safe mode.
>
> Khaled
>
> On 10/5/12, Joseph Hargis <jhargis01 () googlemail com> wrote:
> > Hello List,
> >
> > I have a Windows 7 PC connected to a domain exhibiting the following
> > behavior:
> >
> > 1. The user logged off the machine to go to lunch. When she returned she
> > was unable to logon and the machine displayed an error stating that the
> > machine had lost the trust relationship with the domain.
> >
> > 2. The local administrator account has been removed from the local
> > administrators group.
> >
> > 3. When the network cable was unplugged, the keyboard and mouse quit
> > functioning.
> >
> > Admittedly, I'm new to malware hunting. But to me, this behavior is
> > suspicious. Does this ring any bells with anyone?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Joe Hargis
> >
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