fett on 25/7/2009 at 02:56
This little bug was clever enough to make me ooo and ahh even though it shredded my hard drive. iexpore.exe - disguises itself as your windows security alert and tells you your firewall has been turned off. Turn it back on and bada-bing bada-boom it's downloading pop ups and replacing search engine results with its own ads. I found it using PrevX 3.O (Avast and Spybot were oblivious). Here's the good part - it deleted the infected files without recognizing that they had attached themselves somehow to crucial OS files in the win32 folder. Yeah.
I said several inappropriate things about the mother of the baby Jesus.
Couldn't even get to the BIOS or safe mode after that. Clever, but annoying.
I'm stupid for even screwing around with rapidshare huh? I learned the hard way. :(:tsktsk:
Bjossi on 25/7/2009 at 03:23
Quote Posted by fett
disguises itself as your windows security alert and tells you your firewall has been turned off. Turn it back on and bada-bing bada-boom
Firewalls don't turn themselves off. If you didn't do it, then such a warning should make the malware quite obvious.
belboz on 25/7/2009 at 10:07
My windows security thing is off by default, as I use a different self learning firewall, and spyware software running in the background that catches everything comming into the computer from the internet. The spyware has a built in virus checks and currently looks for 1.5 million signatures.
37637598 on 25/7/2009 at 10:11
I got that virus as well, when I downloaded a copy of morrowind cuz my disk literally broke in half in the disk drive of my desktop. I don't know how it's possible, but it happened. I haven't found a way to get around the virus other than re-format. bleh
fett on 26/7/2009 at 17:50
Quote Posted by Bjossi
Firewalls don't turn themselves off. If you didn't do it, then such a warning should make the malware quite obvious.
Right, but this was on our main computer in the house which my wife and kids primarily use - I always use my laptop. Otherwise I would have thought something fishy was going on, but with them, there's no telling sometimes what they've fucked around with trying to get a game to work or whatever.
Here's the thing - I've been using Avast for some time and never had a problem, running spybot and adaware checks every week or so as well. I'd appreciate some pointers on building a more secure system. I was shocked when I ran PrevX and found about 10 pieces of malware that Avast and Spybot never caught. Spybot used to be the shit but maybe it's not so good anymore?
Also belboz - tell me more about this firewall that I can use in place of Windows security bullshit.
bikerdude on 27/7/2009 at 15:49
Quote Posted by fett
I've been using Avast for some time and never had a problem, Also belboz - tell me more about this firewall that I can use in place of Windows security bullshit.
Fett, I seriously suggest you go buy and install "Kaspersky internet security 2009" or "Norton internet security 2009". Both will run rings round Avast and both with replace the week windows firewall. Both now incorporate spyware & malware detection along with anti-virus.
Norton is for mainstream users and Kaspersky for more technical user.
:thumb:
Ulukai on 27/7/2009 at 15:58
In my experience, anything with Norton stamped on it is a giant clusterfuck of software misery to be avoided at all costs.
bikerdude on 27/7/2009 at 17:10
Quote Posted by Ulukai
In my experience, anything with Norton stamped on it is a giant cluster-fuck of software misery to be avoided at all costs.
Normally I would agree, but this year they have fixed all the old gripes... It hase a small single file memory footprint, dosent slow the computer down and has almost as good a detection rate as kaspersky, I couldn't quite believe it myself at first....
Quote Posted by nickie
I just prefer to use a combination of free stuff. It does the job.
When you can buy a 1yr 1pc licence of Norton or kaspersky OEM for £7 from scan there is no need to piss about with the likes of AVG. Just to sub topic, the latest update for AVG made it think iTunes is a virus - thats funny of some many levels.. but that's not as funny as Mcafee deleting core system files...
nickie on 27/7/2009 at 17:24
True biker. But to be honest, most days I'm scrabbling around to find a spare 7p let alone a spare £7.00 :)
Maybe soon.
