WARNING ALL--ATTENTION ALL-WARNING ALL

[ME BIGGD01]

Hi people, i have been working so much due to the amount of viruses that have been created and put out these past weeks. be weary of files that are sent to you regardless if you notice it is sent from someone you know. chances are they have no idea there is a virus imbedded into the funny picture, funny joke or link.

i suggest manually going into internet properties and clearing your history and temp files to make sure these trojans do not activate themself to suprising to notice you have been infected.

another suggestion is making sure you disconnect your internet while you are away from your pc so nothing gets through while you are away from pc.

i warn you because some of these are pretty bad and can cause a mess.

for people with amd64, try using the sp2 beta to enable the nx flag feature as you will be safe fom such things.

to be honest, i have never in my life seen so many attacks on peoples computers and warn all to be extremely carefull. although this stuff makes me money, i prefer to be making money not worrying about security flaws in the os and just maintaning networks. today, we have to maintain networks from hackrs and now the viruses are cretaed to hack you. it pretty scummy and if anyone does online banking or shops online, they can be caught with some sort of key logger or similar hack that sends your info to the evil. if you do shop or bank online, again clear history and history folders.

also i suggest doing a search on your pc for all temp folders and clear them out to make sure something is not laying in there ready to activate at a particular date.

just a message from me :thumbs:

[OUTLAWS The Machine]

Poeple who create viruses and such should be shot.

[Caged Anger]

just read in the paper about the Scob virus on the loose. Maybe it's time I went to the store and bought McAfee Firewall. Although, I do wish there was a free alternative...

[Morpheus]

<waiting for Machine&#39;s post about the free virus scanner which has a name that escapes me> :P

[ME BIGGD01]

Originally posted by OUTLAWS The Machine@Jun 26 2004, 03:37 PM
Poeple who create viruses and such should be shot.
most don&#39;t know but this is tecnical warfare and the reason why so many viruse are being pushed out.

but at the same time i agree with your statement :thumbs:

[ME BIGGD01]

Originally posted by Caged Anger@Jun 26 2004, 03:41 PM
just read in the paper about the Scob virus on the loose. Maybe it&#39;s time I went to the store and bought McAfee Firewall. Although, I do wish there was a free alternative...
mcafee firewall or any other software firewall will not save you. if you can get out to the web, you can be hit plain and simple.


another suggestion is raise the security of your cookies in the internet properties for added security.

[<<Hybrid>>]

i am disconnectin&#39; my PC only when reinstalling windows. I love blaster wormz

[Fred Bear]

thanks for the info Big. Virus&#39; stink&#33;

[Elessar]

ive always heard the announce when the virus attacks will be so microsoft will get something done about it and make them fix there stupid security flaws

in other words if they never did do these attacks where the hackers alerted people weeks before that they were going to attack the many flaws that have long since been fixed would still be there

[SoulReaver]

Yeha i know bout viruses in mail. Almsot everyday there is like 2 email for viruses and it stayed that way for two weeks until they finally stopped emailing me viruses.

[OUTLAWS high ping camper]

Thanks Mr. Big. :)

[Death Engineer]

Being smart with email on your home system and hardware firewall is enough protection for me. I don&#39;t even own virus software.

Now on a large network like many people have at work, that&#39;s a different story.

[ME BIGGD01]

Originally posted by Death Engineer@Jun 29 2004, 04:12 AM
Being smart with email on your home system and hardware firewall is enough protection for me. I don&#39;t even own virus software.

Now on a large network like many people have at work, that&#39;s a different story.
i hear that so many times there death. you are nuts imo, if you do not use any virus protection. i was like that on my desktops way before 9/11 but the problems have increased to a point where you could put yourself in danger. i guess i f all you do is game with your pc, it&#39;s ok. the majority of people do not know how to repair their own pc and get stuck with (my rates) 120-250 an hour to fix their unit or network.

i can tell you this for sure, the virus software does not pick up all the spyware and sometimes you will never know it&#39;s there. oneday you may notice charges on your credit cards or bank cards that you havent made. i see all the time along with some dialer.exe files that are using your computer to dial 900 numbers. it&#39;s pretty sh1tty but i suggest people to try to be safe than sorry.

[JIMINATOR]

Originally posted by Death Engineer@Jun 28 2004, 11:12 PM
Being smart with email on your home system and hardware firewall is enough protection for me. I don&#39;t even own virus software.

Now on a large network like many people have at work, that&#39;s a different story.
hmmm, that&#39;s the way i go too, but yesterday some website...
won&#39;t mention the type... :oooo:
managed to autoinstall spam popup sh1t all over my computer.
now i don&#39;t have any problem deleting it, (kill all tasks, run adaware, spybot,
nuke startups, delete explorer addons, default home page, search pages, etc)
but i have to wonder about the average home user. you hit one of those sites and
your computer is toast. it will take forever to load up, continuous popups,
programs barely run, etc. i know because i have cleaned up quite a few.
i think those guys are more scumbags and they should get a bullet in their skull... :P

[ME BIGGD01]

Originally posted by JIMINATOR+Jun 29 2004, 05:16 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JIMINATOR &#064; Jun 29 2004, 05:16 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Death Engineer@Jun 28 2004, 11:12 PM
Being smart with email on your home system and hardware firewall is enough protection for me.* I don&#39;t even own virus software.

Now on a large network like many people have at work, that&#39;s a different story.
hmmm, that&#39;s the way i go too, but yesterday some website...
won&#39;t mention the type... :oooo:
managed to autoinstall spam popup sh1t all over my computer.
now i don&#39;t have any problem deleting it, (kill all tasks, run adaware, spybot,
nuke startups, delete explorer addons, default home page, search pages, etc)
but i have to wonder about the average home user. you hit one of those sites and
your computer is toast. it will take forever to load up, continuous popups,
programs barely run, etc. i know because i have cleaned up quite a few.
i think those guys are more scumbags and they should get a bullet in their skull... :P [/b][/quote]
:thumbs:

hey jim, i wonder if i went to the same site :P becase i also got hit and am pulling all the reg keys out as i type. so many popups these days and even the experienced gets hit once in awhile. what amazes me is if you hack, you get arrested yet...these advertisements are somwhat of a hack and they are permitted to do it. i shall supply the ammo :thumbs:

on a side note, i have noticed that this spam crap has altered my spy sweeper. it changed the config in which i see how it was getting in. now if that&#39;s not hacking what is? i think the people paying for the advertisements deserve to be shot in the skull also.

[BobtheCkroach]

Wow. Bigg, you&#39;re psychic or somethin&#39;, i swear. I just logged on to GM to ask about a Trojan that I just got and can&#39;t find anything about. You&#39;re so awesome, bigg&#33; Anyway, do you (or anyone...) know anything about the Trojan Dropper.ExeBundle.AC? I got it yesterday. Google gave me nothin&#39;, and microsoft has no reference of it on their site. AVG is alerting me that I have it, and to run AVG to kill it, but when I run AVG, it says nothin&#39; is there...

[ME BIGGD01]

down load spy sweeper--install---goto options-----switch to high level priority----update definitions-----boot into safe mode----do a sweep now.


i also suggest going into run and type msconfig-----disable all start up programs untill all is removed.

you will have to run spy sweeper a few times to make sure you get everything out


go into control panel and look for programs installed that says toolbar or search. these are bs programs and needed to be uninstalled.

there are other things needed to do but do that first and come back

[SHOTGUNmaniac]

Ive ran spysweeper, and loads of other progs to....

Spysweeper freezes halfway through the removal process....

im still getting this crap....Id really love to find these people and cut off there fingers.........................

[Slice]

Hostrocket.com had one of their servers cracked over the weekend and my website for one of my hotels resided on it. :cry: I called them up and they were like we don&#39;t think anyones passwords or account information was compromised or stolen. That makes me feel real good..... To make matters worse I found out from one of my customers that my site was down, damn idiots didn&#39;t even call to say hey we were hacked you need to fix your site. :mad:

[PJ'l_Master]

Originally posted by Caged Anger@Jun 26 2004, 11:41 AM
just read in the paper about the Scob virus on the loose. Maybe it&#39;s time I went to the store and bought McAfee Firewall. Although, I do wish there was a free alternative...
zone alarm

[Death Engineer]

Originally posted by JIMINATOR+Jun 29 2004, 12:16 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JIMINATOR @ Jun 29 2004, 12:16 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Death Engineer@Jun 28 2004, 11:12 PM
Being smart with email on your home system and hardware firewall is enough protection for me.&nbsp; I don&#39;t even own virus software.

Now on a large network like many people have at work, that&#39;s a different story.
hmmm, that&#39;s the way i go too, but yesterday some website...
won&#39;t mention the type... :oooo:
managed to autoinstall spam popup sh1t all over my computer.
now i don&#39;t have any problem deleting it, (kill all tasks, run adaware, spybot,
nuke startups, delete explorer addons, default home page, search pages, etc)
but i have to wonder about the average home user. you hit one of those sites and
your computer is toast. it will take forever to load up, continuous popups,
programs barely run, etc. i know because i have cleaned up quite a few.
i think those guys are more scumbags and they should get a bullet in their skull... :P [/b][/quote]
Don&#39;t look at pr0n and you&#39;ll be fine. :shifty:

Seriously... if you&#39;re smart about what you open on your system, you won&#39;t have these problems. A simple pop-up blocker fixes most of them. Choose not to install things from pop-ups also. Those are nasty.

[JIMINATOR]

no, not about that, these utilize ie exploits, look at one example,

http://www.theregister.com/2004/06/29/cws_shredder/

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The trojan installs dozens of bookmarks to foul porn sites on your desktop; it also adds a toolbar to Internet Explorer and changes your home page without asking. And it significantly slows down the performance of your PC, and introduces some modifications which cause Windows to freeze, crash or randomly reboot.

He has tracked CWS and its modifications ever since it first appeared last summer, claiming that it is "the most complex, invisible and devious hijacker" ever programmed. He is not joking: We run afoul of CWS not too long ago and the only way to remove the sucker was to replace the entire Windows Registry with a previous version. Even MSIE 6 Service Pack 2 (beta) couldn&#39;t provide any protection.

[Slice]

Jim I don&#39;t mind the fact that you have a fairy in your signature but do you think you could shrink his ass down a bit. kthanks

[JIMINATOR]

hey slice, i put him there so that you too can derive much enjoyment from him, and remember, all you have to do is "believe&#33;"

(ok, i&#39;ll shrink him...)

[Death Engineer]

Originally posted by JIMINATOR@Jun 29 2004, 03:53 PM
no, not about that, these utilize ie exploits, look at one example,

http://www.theregister.com/2004/06/29/cws_shredder/

----------------------------
The trojan installs dozens of bookmarks to foul porn sites on your desktop; it also adds a toolbar to Internet Explorer and changes your home page without asking. And it significantly slows down the performance of your PC, and introduces some modifications which cause Windows to freeze, crash or randomly reboot.

He has tracked CWS and its modifications ever since it first appeared last summer, claiming that it is "the most complex, invisible and devious hijacker" ever programmed. He is not joking: We run afoul of CWS not too long ago and the only way to remove the sucker was to replace the entire Windows Registry with a previous version. Even MSIE 6 Service Pack 2 (beta) couldn&#39;t provide any protection.
Exactly my point. What kind of websites would allow malicious code in their content? Are you telling me that if someone came only to gamemecca and surfed all day long that they would get viruses? No.

Stay away from the questionable sites, don&#39;t open email from folks you don&#39;t know (and question the ones from people that you DO) and you don&#39;t have a problem. That&#39;s my point.

[JIMINATOR]

well, you are living in a fantasy world. type in any search term in google,
and you will probably get in some porno hits. avoiding them
is fine but not always realistic, especially if the pages are disguised,
or are clever mistyping of common sites, ie: whitehouse.com, etc...

[BobtheCkroach]

Originally posted by SHOTGUNmaniac@Jun 29 2004, 02:49 PM
Ive ran spysweeper, and loads of other progs to....

Spysweeper freezes halfway through the removal process....

im still getting this crap....Id really love to find these people and cut off there fingers.........................
Shotgun&#33; AVG is giving me the same message (not the same trojan, though) and even when I run AVG, I get no fix...Bigg, I tried what you said...no dice yet.

[OUTLAWS Tip]

You can try hitting Control/Alt/Delete.
Having everything closed there should be no applications running.
Click on the Processes tab and see if you can find the that process running in the background. Hit end task. Then try and run anti-virus and ad-aware or spybot.

The offending program is probably running in the background, so it won&#39;t let you remove it. If you can find the right application to turn off, hopefully you can get it removed.

:hmmm:

[SHOTGUNmaniac]

I formatted in the end..... **** it.......... Thanks to the people that helped.

[Dangerous Dan]

isn&#39;t there some way to install two versions of windows on one hard drive? because m friend was talking about how you should install one version for browsing the web and installing stuff, and then use the other for purely gaming and such, sound slike it&#39;ll keep you free of viruses where it counts...

[EXEcution]

Originally posted by Dangerous Dan@Jun 30 2004, 06:35 PM
isn&#39;t there some way to install two versions of windows on one hard drive? because m friend was talking about how you should install one version for browsing the web and installing stuff, and then use the other for purely gaming and such, sound slike it&#39;ll keep you free of viruses where it counts...
yes i hear alot of peopledo that
you have to partition the hard drive (equally i guess) and install the OS onto both partitions and then you can do a dual boot
never tried it but it sounds hard :unsure:

[solid snake295]

Originally posted by Dangerous Dan@Jun 30 2004, 06:35 PM
isn&#39;t there some way to install two versions of windows on one hard drive? because m friend was talking about how you should install one version for browsing the web and installing stuff, and then use the other for purely gaming and such, sound slike it&#39;ll keep you free of viruses where it counts...
ive heard of that with running linux on windows, pretty sure it was called lindows. i dont know about running 2 windows , im sure anything is possible though.

[JIMINATOR]

boot of the install cd, specify you want a new install, specify &#092;winxp as the install
directory. after the new install, when you boot again you will get a menu asking
which to boot. pick the first for the new install or the second for the old install. it
will share some folders, but it will work.

[ME BIGGD01]

i am working on something to help resolve this for future. i have allowed myself to get infected to find the most efficient way to clean your system with out losing your data. i appears that some of these scripts are pretty intelligent but once i am done i will type out instructions for others that may be infected or for future infections.

it does appear to disrupt all spyware utiliities regardless of which one you use. it will detect it but not allow it to dellete regardless if you are in safe mode. it seems to rebuild itself.

due to work, i am being delayed on this project but once done i will have instructions for removal.