 OT: Virus to watch out for, It took me out yesterday |
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| 914Sixer |
 Nov 13 2008, 08:10 AM
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914 Guru  Group: Members Posts: 8,906 Joined: 17-January 05 From: San Angelo Texas Member No.: 3,457 Region Association: Southwest Region 
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BEWARE if you get an email stating UPS/Fed Ex has a package for you and they were unable to deliver it. The word invoice is MISPELLED (inoice). The UPS version looks like this: upsinoice_p976i. As soon as you open the virus attacks. I was forunate enough to run Spybot to clean up my computer.
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| davep |
Nov 13 2008, 09:23 AM
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914 Historian Group: Benefactors Posts: 5,154 Joined: 13-October 03 From: Burford, ON, N0E 1A0 Member No.: 1,244 Region Association: Canada  |
Thanks for the warning. That is a tricky one.
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| dw914er |
Nov 13 2008, 12:42 PM
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Planning Cities Group: Members Posts: 2,364 Joined: 1-March 08 From: Yucaipa, CA Member No.: 8,763 Region Association: Southern California |
yea, thats a bad one
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| Rand |
Nov 13 2008, 12:48 PM
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Cross Member Group: Members Posts: 7,409 Joined: 8-February 05 From: OR Member No.: 3,573 Region Association: None |
Also beware that it installs what looks like a legitimate antivirus scanner, which alerts you that you've caught something and invites you to install AV software that will clean it up. Don't fall for that!
Bad news is Spybot alone won't kill it all. Unfortunately this is one of the nasty ones that invites it's friends to the party. Running every AV tool you can get your hands on will probably find more infections the others didn't. Which will still leave you wondering if you got it all. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) Here are a few free trustworthy online scanners that are nice to know about: http://housecall65.trendmicro.com/ http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/home.as...ose_parent=true http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/ http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/activescan/ |
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| biosurfer1 |
Nov 13 2008, 06:19 PM
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Teener fo Life! Group: Members Posts: 3,020 Joined: 3-August 03 From: Roseville, CA Member No.: 977 Region Association: Northern California |
thus the #1 reason to run virtual pc....virus hits, delete virtual hard drive and start over:)
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| So.Cal.914 |
Nov 13 2008, 07:07 PM
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"...And it has a front trunk too." Group: Members Posts: 6,588 Joined: 15-February 04 From: Low Desert, CA./ Hills of N.J. Member No.: 1,658 Region Association: None |
I got one today, I thought it was another "all we need is your name, SS number, address...Blah blah..." So I just deleted it right off. Glad I did, Thanks for the warning.
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