Virus and keyloggers on my350z
03-09-2010, 04:14 PM
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I got it twice at home and once at work. I closed out of it, and ran webroot on my home PC. Haven't had any issues so far. IT at work was pissed. I played stupid.
03-09-2010, 10:27 PM
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They're trying to look for the malicious code but can't find anything. They haven't been able to duplicate it yet. 
I was told that it could "be possible that perhaps someone has some sort of an image link in their signature or avatar that is attempting to execute some code."
I was told that it could "be possible that perhaps someone has some sort of an image link in their signature or avatar that is attempting to execute some code."
03-10-2010, 04:29 AM
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^^Then wouldn't it be prudent to post a "warning" thread in a more visited and visible area to warn people they can't find it and this site indeed is passing malicious code?
It's not a signature....its a seemingly random occurrence and you can track it by some posts as people posted when they got it or flagged the thread/post.
It kind of seems like this is no big deal to them and they aren't really putting too much time into it...it was first reported on 2/26.....
If something doesn't happen soon I will be canceling my account and Im sure many members won't be back (most of them won't be able to get it off their pc).
It's not a signature....its a seemingly random occurrence and you can track it by some posts as people posted when they got it or flagged the thread/post.
It kind of seems like this is no big deal to them and they aren't really putting too much time into it...it was first reported on 2/26.....
If something doesn't happen soon I will be canceling my account and Im sure many members won't be back (most of them won't be able to get it off their pc).
03-10-2010, 07:28 AM
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They're trying to look for the malicious code but can't find anything. They haven't been able to duplicate it yet.
I was told that it could "be possible that perhaps someone has some sort of an image link in their signature or avatar that is attempting to execute some code."
I was told that it could "be possible that perhaps someone has some sort of an image link in their signature or avatar that is attempting to execute some code."
03-10-2010, 08:30 AM
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I have set most of those setting to prompt see if i can track it when something weird tries to "play/self-install".....
03-10-2010, 09:16 AM
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I'm not blaming him for anything. I just think it's ridiculous that he did that. What if every single member here who no longer visits this site decided to erase all trace of their activity on here? How much info do you think we'd have?
Remember that in order for forums to exist, knowledge must be shared and retained.
Remember that in order for forums to exist, knowledge must be shared and retained.
Sounds about right to me.
03-10-2010, 09:19 AM
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"What would you recommend for the browser?"
My recommendation would make the internet suck for a few days until you manually whitelisted all the trusted scripts. And vids dont load until I click on the box and allow them to run. FF with noscript and ABP add ons for me. My wife is not exactly tech savy but within a few minutes, she was figuring out how to whitelist scripts with noscript. If you go to ebay or paypal, and 1/2 the page is blank, youre missing a script. You right click on the little noscript S in the bottom corner and "allow ebay.com" or "allow my350z" and so forth.
My recommendation would make the internet suck for a few days until you manually whitelisted all the trusted scripts. And vids dont load until I click on the box and allow them to run. FF with noscript and ABP add ons for me. My wife is not exactly tech savy but within a few minutes, she was figuring out how to whitelist scripts with noscript. If you go to ebay or paypal, and 1/2 the page is blank, youre missing a script. You right click on the little noscript S in the bottom corner and "allow ebay.com" or "allow my350z" and so forth.
if you really like scripts...flash... but at the same time you are really concerned about this... how about setting the settings to prompt anytime a website request one of this things to run....
I have set most of those setting to prompt see if i can track it when something weird tries to "play/self-install".....
I have set most of those setting to prompt see if i can track it when something weird tries to "play/self-install".....
03-10-2010, 09:51 AM
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Maybe I got it from here - it was a nightmare to remove all that. I had something else though b/c it would let me install malwarebytes, my search was always redirected on yahoo/google. Nasty Nasty - had to remove all extensions and redo before it would allow any anti-virus to be run. =\
03-10-2010, 09:55 AM
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And here I was thinking it was all the **** sites I was visiting. A good tip from the guy who said to block all flash and all advertisements... one of them must be able to exploit some kind of vulnerability in FireFox to get on the PC. One thing that would be interesting is if Chrome-only users have experienced the virus or not...
Can any Chrome-only users chime in?
Can any Chrome-only users chime in?
03-10-2010, 10:02 AM
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On a serious note, I almost wanna install virtual pc and maybe run a screen capture app that way can check out frame by frame to see about when/where it happens.
