Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Remove malware on remote PC, even if task manager is disabled and antivirus not running

What:

Windows 7

Problem:

Windows client infected with malware which asks for payment, you are connected remotely via VNC, but you can't run malwarebytes or any other antivirus software, task manager is disabled.

Solution:

First step is to kill malicious process:
1. Download psexec.exe
2. Connect via command line to infected pc using following command:
psexec.exe \\192.168.1.10 -u "domain\administrator" -p "password" cmd
192.168.1.10 is your target machine

3. Run tasklist to see all running process's
4. Identify suspicious process, most likely some random name i.e. 3pn37a33.exe and take a note of it's PID
5. Terminate above process using:
pskill.exe \\192.168.1.10 -u "domain\administrator" -p "password" PID
Now you should be able to connect remotely again using VNC and perform malware removal with i.e. Roguekiller & Malwarebytes.

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