Resolved MBAM update without internet access

If we're working on a malware problem which is keeping us from getting to the Internet, how do we update the programs (such as MBAM), or do we just run 'em "as-downloaded" ? (I keep a "nest" of such programs in an "emergency" folder on a thumbdrive and replace them as they get 'antiquated'. Just refreshed the troops here at work where I have Internet access.)

(back tomorrow appx 1600 GMT)

 

You download to a machine with working internet and transfer over to the problem system.

If you are working on a current malware problem post the requested logs, if not queries like this should be asked in general security.

 

Have you tried to get on line with Safe Mode with networking? That works quite a bit when Normal mode doesn't.

 

Thank you, BRONI (yet again!) for your slightly more reasoned and somewhat less abrupt treatment. Also, for actually perceiving the root of the question.

Now online and I will proceed to do a malware check/search. Something I picked up changed the settings in XP, IE and Firefox to require a proxys use: having discoverd and changed this I can now proceed normally.

Many thanks for the URL.

See ya at Malware.

 

Frayed....

I know it's not nice to step into someone else's thread, but...

I too try to keep a working set of malware tools on a flash drive and had the same question you posed. I guess the bottom line is that you have to individually download fresh copies to the flash drive every so often to stay somewhat current. Is that your take?

 

Others may disagree as to whether or not one should store such programs on a removable drive for use in such a case as mine, but I committed the major sin of NOT keeping my "stable" up to date.

Face it: unless you do this for either a living (a few here) or as an avocation (many, many more), you will, eventually, forget to do the updates, and, equally eventually, that fateful day will come when the Trapdoor of Fate opens and you disappear from the stage. THEN is not the time to discover your "hoard" is less than useless due to being out of date.

So, for the next few years, I'll do monthly updates and scans, check the paid programs for correct operation and the like, but I can assure you (especially due to some personal considerations) that I will eventually forget it again and wind up in the same trouble.

(There's a new spelling for the word "assume ": "Ass-me-me ". )

 

Perhaps you might like to make yourself a Bart PE CD, with the Firefox 1.5 plugin. It can be thought of as Windows that runs off of a CD. You'll be able to access the internet for downloads, and be able to delete any files on the harddrive that may be otherwise invisible to you.
I would recommend streamlining SP3 for XP into the XP Windows Installation files that you are going to use for this.