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Flightless Bird
mindydee:
Security Central popped up on one of my computers about 3 days ago. I
researched this particular malware. I found that it can essentially
disable your computer by not allowing exe or com files to run if
Security Central believes those files might be used to go after Security
Central. However, it will likely not blow up your computer or release
your data to the rest of the world. I can't vouch for the truth of the
last statement, but I took a chance and let it go for a couple of days
with no apparent ill effects.
Last night I had some time to take care of it. I removed it
successfully and so far everything is right with the computer. Security
Central appears to be history.
Somebody else referred you to the bleepingcomputer site. I found 3
other fixes but used the directions from bleepingcomputer. Essentially,
you use "rkill" to temporarily disable Security Central and then you can
use Malwarebytes anti malware program to remove it. Simple procedure
and it seems to work. However, the full malwarebytes scan took at least
3 hours so you may not want to be sitting in front of the computer the
whole time.
Follow the following link for the removal instructions.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-security-central
This is my first post on this site and the link I just posted looks
weird on the composing screen, so if the link doesn't work, just
manually type into the address bar of your browser:
"http/www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-security-central".
Follow the instructions which are pretty clear.
Now, who can help me out?
After removing Security Central I also find desktop shortcuts to the
following files:
"pev.exe" and "ncmd.cfxxe"
I've searched the web and find several references to them but no
satisfactory explanation. I'm not worried about them as I have already
renamed them so I can presumably delete them. Anybody know what they do
and can confirm that removing them will not mess anything up ?
Thanx
RHL
Security Central popped up on one of my computers about 3 days ago. I
researched this particular malware. I found that it can essentially
disable your computer by not allowing exe or com files to run if
Security Central believes those files might be used to go after Security
Central. However, it will likely not blow up your computer or release
your data to the rest of the world. I can't vouch for the truth of the
last statement, but I took a chance and let it go for a couple of days
with no apparent ill effects.
Last night I had some time to take care of it. I removed it
successfully and so far everything is right with the computer. Security
Central appears to be history.
Somebody else referred you to the bleepingcomputer site. I found 3
other fixes but used the directions from bleepingcomputer. Essentially,
you use "rkill" to temporarily disable Security Central and then you can
use Malwarebytes anti malware program to remove it. Simple procedure
and it seems to work. However, the full malwarebytes scan took at least
3 hours so you may not want to be sitting in front of the computer the
whole time.
Follow the following link for the removal instructions.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-security-central
This is my first post on this site and the link I just posted looks
weird on the composing screen, so if the link doesn't work, just
manually type into the address bar of your browser:
"http/www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-security-central".
Follow the instructions which are pretty clear.
Now, who can help me out?
After removing Security Central I also find desktop shortcuts to the
following files:
"pev.exe" and "ncmd.cfxxe"
I've searched the web and find several references to them but no
satisfactory explanation. I'm not worried about them as I have already
renamed them so I can presumably delete them. Anybody know what they do
and can confirm that removing them will not mess anything up ?
Thanx
RHL