A week ago - it’s June 22nd today - CenturyLink blocked my computer, saying I had this Bamitol bot. I restarted the computer, since a laptop on the same account was still going strong without any interruption.
Today, however, that laptop was blocked with the same notice of the Bamitol virus trojan. I was outside, and my computer was in sleep mode, though still online, and not active. When I activated my computer it was also blocked.
The customer service guy posing as a tech rep, had no knowledge of networked systems, so he referred me to his manager.
That manager was tied up with someone else for some time. He finally called me, and after some discussion agreed to send a detailed account incident report to my eMail. I’ve not received it yet, 8 hours later.
AVG Secure Search hijacked my search URL on at least Firefox. I keep ZoneAlarm, free virus, firewall and security tool active all the time, and it has no record at all of the Bamitol trojan, and maintains full system watch 24/7.
I keep mostly updated on miserySoft’s lousy trial-ware system updates, so I’m not far behind with that disaster posing as “updates.” I just completed a ms Security Essentials quick scan, without any indication of the Bamitol, or any other malware. I’m letting it do a full scan with ZoneAlerm disabled. After that I will run Kaspersky’s RootKit snooper.
Is CenturyLink compromised and the bot running in their servers, between the various network systems CenturyLink runs on its secure internal network, where that Bamitol botnet poses as incoming account activity to disguise its internal presence?
Something is very suspicious with CenturyLink ISP server management, here.