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WARNING - Intelligent Explorer Virus
12/7/03
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Posted on 12/07/2003 7:20:55 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
have you tried ad ware? i accidently DLed hotbar and my life turned into pop up hell. i was told about ad ware and its been great.
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posted on
12/07/2003 9:14:04 PM PST
by
suzyq5558
(news anchor's, national bozo's on view for all to gaze at with eye-popping disgust)
To: martin_fierro
AdAware - I picked up viruses every time I did an AdAware scan.
ZoneAlarm - Too many crashes for me with the ZoneAlarm.
Just my personal experiences.
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posted on
12/07/2003 9:24:50 PM PST
by
boycott
To: pctech
I just tried installing Firebird and it doesn't really "Install", it just downloads the files to use and you make your own icons. Yeah, Firebird is still pretty raw in a lot of ways, which is probably why there's no nice installer package yet. That's why I would say stick with Mozilla for the near future, for most people. But feel free to play with it if you get it up and running - the Firebird team can always use people reporting issues and bugs, if you feel like contributing a bit.
The user interface though seems so "bland" for lack of better words and the there seem to be no skins designed for it yet.
The Netscape Theme Park has been defunct for some time now, but there are skins for NS 7.0/7.1 - you can get them from the mozdev theme collection, which has themes for Mozilla, Netscape, and Firebird. Just make sure to check the compatibility before trying to install a theme - make sure that the theme you want is compatible with the browser and version you're running. Trying to install themes on browsers not listed as compatible is likely to A) cause problems, or; B) simply not work at all.
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posted on
12/07/2003 9:28:44 PM PST
by
general_re
(Knife goes in, guts come out! That's what Osaka Food Concern is all about!)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
If the pages it pops up are all on the same site, and a lot of people have the virus, it must be awful on their bandwidth.
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posted on
12/07/2003 9:29:14 PM PST
by
Styria
To: Mixer
Just ran the scan a second time and it I'm no better off. Still have the additional bar as well as the pop-ups. Everything I manually removed is still gone, I doubt if deleting IE6 would do me any good. My best be would be another browser which isn't IE based, but I lose all of my IE files.
To: 11th Earl of Mar
That is a startpage virus perhaps. Look it up on google or do a computer search for viruses with housecall when you ca.
It's a free virus search frm the net.
Often can remove the virus for you as well.
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posted on
12/07/2003 9:33:15 PM PST
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
There is something odd going on lately on several forums that I'm also a member of. We're getting a ton of very weird popups. Some are just annoying as heck (full screen needing Alt-F4 to close) and others do what is being described here. No one knows where they're coming from and it is becoming a serious pain.
The popups aren't being caused by spyware as it does it to me whether I've dual booted to Windows 2000 or Windows XP. I've run every known anti-spyware program and found nothing. Thankfully it hasn't FUBARed my computer yet but a lot of other people haven't been as lucky.
To: Styria
I just realized whith this disease one cannot leave open sites on their computer over night... You will return with an infinite number of pop-ups.
To: COEXERJ145
I picked up a free pop-up add blocker that works 100% for me so far. Haven't seen an ad in weeks.
Do a google search and you can get it if you wish.
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posted on
12/07/2003 9:46:49 PM PST
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Unfortunately, the system no longer considers it a virus. Because you gave permission, the system considers it an installed program. It won't turn up in a virus search anymore than Word would.
Since it is a program, have you tried looking in the installed programs to see if you can uninstall it?
I've seen some pretty tricky stuff done by these guys. I even had a popup which told me it needed to install a program and had no options but OK and even had the close dialog X box in the upper right hand corner greyed. I ctl-alt-deleted out of it.
bump
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posted on
12/07/2003 10:07:30 PM PST
by
Reagan Man
(The few, the proud, the conservatives.)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Simple solution- use a Mac!
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posted on
12/07/2003 10:08:19 PM PST
by
Wacka
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
When I was on Drudge's site earlier this evening I was getting a continuous pop-up offering this "upgrade". I finally noticed that it's caused by a banner ad at the top of Drudge's page. It said something about mousing over this particular line of text to download. It looked exactly like something IE related. Needless to say, I was irritated enough by this that I won't be visiting the Drudge Report anytime soon.
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posted on
12/07/2003 10:29:02 PM PST
by
hmmmmm
To: martin_fierro
bump for a latter time
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I had a new Trojan Horse attempt at 9:49 P.M. CST from 66.76.100.241 : 2060, but I didn't get the name of it written down. It had something like "Net" in the name of it. My Norton Utilities Visual Tracking hasn't been working correctly the last several days and has just been blank when I have attempted to get info about attackers.
Unfortunately, I "downloaded" the Sunday night updates, but fortunately, I did NOT "install" them. How can I get the "downloaded" files off my computer? Anybody know?
Also, I have had SpyBot for a while, but got lax in running it at the beginning of EVERY SINGLE TIME I got online. However, I try not to even be PHYSICALLY connected to the internet when rebooting because of problems I have had with attackers completely taking over my rebooted computer with the reboot. I COMPLETELY lost control over my own computer because of attackers and deceptive SPAM email which tricked me to believing it was a legitimate email from someone I knew.
Now, I actually PHYSICALLY DISCONNECT the cable going into my computer and put my Motorola Surfboard cable modem on "standby," and then rehook and turn on after FULLY rebooted. It is a PAIN to have to do so, but until I "downloaded" the stuff Sunday night, it was working well.
Recently, I started getting a FEW RED (checked) items on SpyBot to delete, but I now also have a TON on BLUE things like Registry Key (if I'm recalling correctly from memory), etc. Should I go ahead and delete the BLUE items? I have NEVER had it come up with BLUE things listed before---only RED ones.
BTW, a while back, I bought (but have not installed yet) a "NetGear FM114P 11Mbps Cable/DSL ProSafe 802.11b Wireless Firewall with 4-port 10/100 Mbps switch with Print Server." Would that solve the almost CONSTANT attempted attacks which I have to keep confirming I want blocked?
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I was trying to post the following to all previous posters to this thread, but for some reason, the others didn't show up in my "To" section.
Please see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1035915/posts?page=55#55
Thanks!
(TO: Tumbleweed_Connection, ImaGraftedBranch, GummyIII, visualops, 11th Earl of Mar, Indie, mhking, chilepepper, martin_fierro, Jeff Gordon, witnesstothefall, Holly_P, commish, Vision, Petronski, matrix2225, arasina, TheBattman, Free Trapper, righthand man, pctech, ChadGore, Ronin, general_re, Yohan, Danette, Happy2BMe, orbitboy, EUPHORIC, Mixer, blowfish, MeneMeneTekelUpharsin, steplock, suzyq5558, boycott, Styria, A CA Guy, COEXERJ145, Richard Kimball)
To: Concerned
Should I go ahead and delete the BLUE items? YES! You must delete everything Spybot finds. The blue ones are messing with your registry.
To: Concerned
You have to use semicolons ; between email recipients rather than commas , as you had done.
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Any suggestions? Get a Mac.
To: Yohan
Bummer. I never get any of those.
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posted on
12/07/2003 11:08:37 PM PST
by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get)
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