+AtlantaGal Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 So who else got whacked? I thought it was yahoo and the new flash embeded spyware that took down my desktop pc, but I think it was the geocoin club's forums that got me since I went from yahoo to it. It's been a nightmare to cleanup and my desktop still isn't fully functional because the new version of Norton AV is a huge resource hog with the settings I had to activate to prevent this from happening again. Took us about 12 hours to remove all the crap. It wouldn't have taken that long except Cymbaline had an extra asterisk in the DOS command line and wiped out a portion of Windows in the process. The pc is clean now, but I need to buy more memory to be able to run it normally, sigh. Link to comment
+ranger216 Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 So who else got whacked? I thought it was yahoo and the new flash embeded spyware that took down my desktop pc, but I think it was the geocoin club's forums that got me since I went from yahoo to it. It's been a nightmare to cleanup and my desktop still isn't fully functional because the new version of Norton AV is a huge resource hog with the settings I had to activate to prevent this from happening again. Took us about 12 hours to remove all the crap. It wouldn't have taken that long except Cymbaline had an extra asterisk in the DOS command line and wiped out a portion of Windows in the process. The pc is clean now, but I need to buy more memory to be able to run it normally, sigh. You should try Avast... Its free and not nearly the system hog that NAV is Link to comment
+AtlantaGal Posted September 21, 2006 Author Share Posted September 21, 2006 Yeah, themoopalong recommended that too. I could use the extra memory anyway, but I am considering it. Link to comment
ATMouse Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 AG, you got it from the forum location? Link to comment
+summerandnana Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 What problems did you start with? Yesterday my Yahoo mail fonts went GINORMOUS and I can't figure out how to reduce the size. Tried everything I know but can't figure it out. Other sites like this are fine, go figure. Link to comment
+GBOTS Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Our computer crashed out of the blue on the 19th. It looks like all we lost was an evenings worth of email, so if anyone tried to contact us that night and hasn't received an answer that's why Link to comment
+Grimlock Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 AG ... i can't say i've ever heard of someone getting a virus from reading a forum. Did you execute anything (like an Active X control) while on the forum ... or download something? Link to comment
+AtlantaGal Posted September 21, 2006 Author Share Posted September 21, 2006 (edited) Try going to their forums, they took them offline because of the malicious trojan. They have a note on the page stating as much. What happened was, I clicked the forum link from the main geocoin club homepage. The page loaded 1/2 way then froze. Within 2 minutes my resources were about gone, I had about 10 extra rogue programs running which were replicting themselves and launching my modem. I quickly relized what was happening and did ctrl alt del to restart. Once I restarted, I could see all the damage. I shut down the computer, pulled out the laptop and began researching the virus/shareware/trojan that had gotten it's claws into a lot of Windows areas. It was a varrient of vxgame. Most of the major virus hubs don't know what it is exactly. I got most of my info on it through Sun. Edited September 21, 2006 by AtlantaGal Link to comment
+MustangJoni Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 I noticed something was weird the other day on that forum. It looked like it wanted to download something, but I shut the window. I've done my normal virus scan, is there something else I should look for? My PC seems to be operating fine. Link to comment
+Team JSAM Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Get rid of NAV it is pure crap there are many free services that are much better, visit download.com. Link to comment
+Mystery Ink Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 ewido is pretty good AG you might want to check into it. I use that and Mcafee Enterprise. Link to comment
+AtlantaGal Posted September 21, 2006 Author Share Posted September 21, 2006 (edited) I noticed something was weird the other day on that forum. It looked like it wanted to download something, but I shut the window. I've done my normal virus scan, is there something else I should look for? My PC seems to be operating fine. I think you would know if you were infected. If you do ctrl-alt-del can you see what's currently running on your machine? If yes, do that and look for anything with "game" in it. It was easy enough to see on mine cause on start up, I only have 4 things load. I wasn't even asked about a download. The screen froze and the junk was on my computer before I realized what had happened. Edited September 21, 2006 by AtlantaGal Link to comment
+Mystery Ink Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 I noticed something was weird the other day on that forum. It looked like it wanted to download something, but I shut the window. I've done my normal virus scan, is there something else I should look for? My PC seems to be operating fine. I think you would know if you were infected. If you do ctrl-alt-del can you see what's currently running on your machine? If yes, do that and look for anything with "game" in it. It was easy enough to see on mine cause on start up, I only have 4 things load. I wasn't even asked about a download. The screen froze and the junk was on my computer before I realized what had happened. What web browser are you using AG if you are using IE you might want to go into your IE settings and have it prompt you on Active X controllers. Using Opera the settings to Disable Active X and Plugin Installation is very simple. Link to comment
danoshimano Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 NAV *is* a virus! Try Firefox with No Script add-on. Link to comment
+ozymandiasism Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 so did they fix the problem? Link to comment
+Damenace Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Will someone let me know when it has been fixed, I don't want to go look for myself and have the same thing happen . Link to comment
Flying Spaghetti Monster Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Sorry to hear about the problems, but this isn't coin related. Link to comment
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