Posted on 12/11/2009 3:23:19 PM PST by Cindy
This sounds “fishy”. I’m sending it to Flag@whitehouse.gov.
When the Federal Government and the rest of the world start treating the criminals who promulgate these malicious codes to the rest of the world by EXECUTING THEM, the sooner they will stop. This ‘malicious’ term needs to be called the spade that it really is; a case can be made for many instances of it as being an offense equal to causing actions and consequences on the same scale as murder..
“Downloading the software could result in viruses, malicious software called Trojans, and/or keyloggers—hardware that records passwords and sensitive data—being installed on your computer.”
A download that can install hardware, not THAT is cool and creative!
The FBI is all over it. Freeper experts, how long has this exact item they describe been around?
I had one of these pop-ups recently while I was on Facebook.
It seems that the bad guys keep making little modification that can get past McAfee and Microsoft Security Essentials that I have had as protection.
It's a beast. The one I got is in the root and its win32/vundo
“The FBI doesn’t tell you what to do when this happens.”
Whoops! Yes they do, but I wouldn’t even try to close the browser but just go straight to restart!
Just do an Alt + F4
I dont use McAfee, havent had a problem since I switched.
Yes, I never click on those, close them, etc.
I “force quit”, do a virus check, restart.
A warning about something like that came out about a month or two ago from I think, ZDNET maybe. Anyway, it suggested not clicking on anything and just x ing out of your browser altogether because it said clicking on any part of the pop up could start a download to your computer of a virus.
I had one pop up on me when I was on myspace last week or so, and I took ZDNET’s advice and x ed out of my browser and then brought it back up and I was ok doing that.
Had this a couple of times last month. Had to shut down the entire computer. When re-booting all was well.
Geez........I got hit by this about 5 years ago......some offshoot of “Spy Sheriff.”
Got two virus notices from my ISP. Both sent from Facebook.
I have now permanently exited Facebook.
Before anyone at Christmas touches a computer or electronic system I am having one hell of a family meeting.
uh i just had an incident last friday at work. just doing a google search for a work analysis and this malware ADVANCED VIRUS REMOVAL attached itself to my pc. it was incredibly aggressive. by the time the IT department helped me remove this puppy it had added 13 trojans and other forms of malware to my pc. i am thankful i at least knew what it was immediately but our corporate security product couldn’t remove it. we had to download a free product from malwarebytes.
The tricky part was that closing the window activated another popup window. I force closed Firefox and ran Adaware. It showed one trojan that was downloaded approximately the time she hit the site with the popup ad.
One thing I found out was that legitimate sites can have these things if they work with a third party ad agency. The script for the popup is in the ad.
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