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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 805327" data-attributes="member: 32260"><p>If you removed the malware from the disk, and it reappears magically after connecting to the Internet, then one of the possibilities is infected router. You can also see that your web browser is hijacked in some way without signs of disk infection. You have to look at the router settings if they were changed, especially DNS settings, port forwarding, etc.</p><p>But the nasty infections can be virtually invisible for the user, when they spy for credentials and passwords (VPNFilter malware).</p><p>In many cases the malware can be removed by disconnecting the rooter from the internet, rebooting it, and changing the default login credentials. Reconfiguring the router to refer directly to the Google Public DNS servers (or another well known public servers) can prevent against DNS cache poisoning. But in some cases, the firmware update is required.</p><p>The malware can even upload a custom OS to your router with disabled updates and uploads - in this case flashing the storage directly would be required. But, it will be simpler to buy a new router.</p><p>The users can harden the router settings via strong password on the administrative page, enabling MAC address filtering, disabling the remote management, enabling WPA2 encryption (or WPA3 if available) with a strong password, hiding wireless network SSID, using static IP addresses and Net Mask, etc.</p><p></p><p><strong>Using Shadow Defender with hardened router settings can prevent malware persistence.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 805327, member: 32260"] If you removed the malware from the disk, and it reappears magically after connecting to the Internet, then one of the possibilities is infected router. You can also see that your web browser is hijacked in some way without signs of disk infection. You have to look at the router settings if they were changed, especially DNS settings, port forwarding, etc. But the nasty infections can be virtually invisible for the user, when they spy for credentials and passwords (VPNFilter malware). In many cases the malware can be removed by disconnecting the rooter from the internet, rebooting it, and changing the default login credentials. Reconfiguring the router to refer directly to the Google Public DNS servers (or another well known public servers) can prevent against DNS cache poisoning. But in some cases, the firmware update is required. The malware can even upload a custom OS to your router with disabled updates and uploads - in this case flashing the storage directly would be required. But, it will be simpler to buy a new router. The users can harden the router settings via strong password on the administrative page, enabling MAC address filtering, disabling the remote management, enabling WPA2 encryption (or WPA3 if available) with a strong password, hiding wireless network SSID, using static IP addresses and Net Mask, etc. [B]Using Shadow Defender with hardened router settings can prevent malware persistence.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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