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Regarding the "memz" virus

Anonymous
2017-02-20T07:11:32+00:00

I recently saw a video by a Youtube channel called OSFirstTimer that showed the "memz" virus. Now I had seen this virus' work in another video by danooct1 and was amazed at what it was able to do. In my opinion, this should really not be able to be done. I know Windows is pretty open on what you can do but this should be patched and new security measures should be added to ensure this doesn't happen. The reason I was so concerned about this is because in the video by OSFirstTimer, UAC does not show up. I know the creator updated it so its less likely for trolls (or your friends) to blindly send you the virus and have it mess up your computer.

What needs to be done:

-Windows defender needs to block this (unless under EXPLICIT permission)

-Windows needs to have tighter security on this kind of thing (not saying it should be like macos)

Links:

Original video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-jdSgjtUPk&index=8&list=PLi\_KYBWS\_E73gG80A5YFjf8ww5H8aJvAl

Video that prompted this discussion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTfoXP4scJs

Thanks for reading, please share your opinion

Thanks again, Nathan Mendenhall

Sidenote: The catorgory is kind-of random because theres not a specific topic about ^^

Windows for home | Other | Security and privacy

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-05-06T21:07:27+00:00

    I ran the clean version and it worked perfectly fine. No damage is present, nor was the MBR overwritten. It just runs perfectly fine. Once again.

    I also did an operating system overload (meaning you open tons of applications which can gain up memory), and did some memory leakage with the NotMyFault utilitly from Sysinternals which almost froze my system completely. This is what it did:

    I laughed as I thought it was meant to be REALLY funny. I did this combination with the MEMZ, overload and memory leakage sequences. If anyone has any thoughts, let me know.

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    2017-12-22T19:40:12+00:00

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-12-22T17:59:53+00:00

    I watched that video... it was in Windows XP, which doesn't have UCA... I have used it in a windows 7 VM, and UAC does pop up

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  4. Reza-Ameri 45,811 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2017-05-08T15:39:16+00:00

    In any case, if you have PoC and/or any sample of malware, you may submit them to Microsoft Security team and for malware submit them to Microsoft Malware Protection Center.

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  5. Reza-Ameri 45,811 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2017-02-20T14:58:44+00:00

    If you have sample of any of these malwares or other samples, you may submit them to Microsoft Malware Protection Center:

    http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/portal/submission/submit.aspx

    Under comment, you may add link to YouTube.

    If you have Proof of Concept of Exploit and you are certain that it will work and bypass security features in Windows which is fully updated, then you could report it to Microsoft Security Center:

    https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/ff852094.aspx

    Also note that there are tons of video in YouTube which are using some tricks to pretend they bypass Windows security , so before make any report, check and see if it is real or not. If possible and you have lab to test it (Make sure DO NOT test on your own or working PC) .

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