Concerning popup and system event

[Chaoticlusts]

Hey all

I just had a random command prompt suddenly pop up then disappear while gaming I didn't see what the text was before it disappeared so decided to poke around in my event log to see if anything matched. Rather worryingly there was a system event matching the time of the pop up which is a DNS Client Event for a name resolution issue for the website www. "downwithamerica" .com . Given the name of the website the fact that i've definitely never gone to it myself and that I wasn't actively browsing at the time (had some websites open in the background but I was playing WoW at the time) that has me quite worried :/

Someone in my guild online told me it was a group DDoS'ing Blizzard and it's nothing to be concerned about however the command prompt pop up and the fact that I can't seem to find anything corroborating that means I'd much prefer to be certain than ignore an event like this.

Any advice/information would be greatly appreciated. Currently running virus checks and similar and will update if they find anything.

Thanx in advance for any help

 

[VirtualLarry]

reformat, you've been 0wn3d.

 

[Chaoticlusts]

Had a bad feeling that might be the only solution :/

Anyway to find out what happened/How it happened before I wipe? I'm running a bootscan atm that looks like it's going to take an insanely long time but was hoping that might turn something up..

Also I assume we're talking about just wiping the system drive (and hoping it's not on data elsewhere)?

 

[John Connor]

Scan with herdprotect. It wil take a long time and you will need to do it twice. Malwarebytes can be handy and TDsskiller. Make sure you have a software based firewall and only allow output traffic never input traffic unless you are hosting something.