Need help: "piress" MySQL virus

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willODuser
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Need help: "piress" MySQL virus

Post by willODuser » Sun Mar 03, 2013 10:13 am

I logged onto my Windows 7 account and there is a new user created, called "piress."

I did some internet searching and it appears to be a virus, specifically linked with MySQL:

http://malwaremusings.com/2013/01/31/wh ... ress-user/

This got me very nervous, as Open Dental's data is via MySQL.

I have backup copies of my data, but how do I know my backup Open Dental data is not corrupted?

Any suggestions for cleaning this out?

Anyone else have this problem?

willODuser
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Re: Need help: "piress" MySQL virus

Post by willODuser » Sun Mar 03, 2013 2:50 pm

Fortunately the virus was only on an offsite backup computer, not the server with the data. So my data is safe.

Still, I would like to get rid of this virus.

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Re: Need help: "piress" MySQL virus

Post by bpcomp » Tue Mar 05, 2013 10:30 am

It may be a pain but my method would be to format and reinstall the test computer at home. Since we don't know how the virus got in or how it may come back. I spend less time overall by doing that rather than trying to clean the system out because I usually end up having to go back to that computer again anyway. Now I just run linux at home and run virtual machines when I need windows, makes it super easy to recover if something goes wrong.

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