Spyware scared the hell out of me!

[xinpig]

Re: Spyware scared the hell out of me!

spyware sucks man

[Go_Oilers_Go]

Re: Spyware scared the hell out of me!

Sounds like you had a little fun. ^_^

The worst spyware/virus I ever encountered destroyed Norton and a whole bunch of other things on my computer. I would automatically get the blue screen of death if my computer idled for 10 minutes. It also destroyed several other crucial files. I don't even know what it was. My computer screen just flashed and then everything was messed. But I've long reformatted since then.

[chunky_cheese]

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I run two computers in my room, the UBER GIGA MECHA GAMING COMPUTER OF DOOM (mine) and ... that other one... that my brother and sister use. My brother's been complaining about something that sounds similar to this. I should intervene and delete this pesk. Thanks for the heads up.

[footbull3196]

Re: Spyware scared the hell out of me!

I was infected with Security toolbar 7.1!!! I have no idea how it got here but it got here?!

Bascially this is a VERY DANGEROUS trojan hacker (whatever) that is very hard to remove of if you are dumb.

Well what makes it VERY DANGEROUS you ask?
Well....

It automatically downloads like 10 trial versions of crap antispam stuff, and send you rampaging popups about buying full versions, adds flashing buttons notification, produces a tool bar (that can't be removed, or put away buy deselecting it when you right click), it changes your home page to random stuff, and worst of all it redirects you to other add sites when you go to other websites.
I think that covers it all, you can google it for more info.

Oh and here is a funny website I found in my page a day (funny websites) calender.

http://www.titane.ca/concordia/dfar251/igod/main.html

Well, my antivirus protector was messed up and did not show it in the spyware list, so I downloaded superantispyware free home edition, ran it and removed all of the components of this hack.

At first though, all theese rampaging popups and add, scared the hell out of me, and so did everything else.

You should be thankful if this or anything else has not happened to you. But it's gone now, and I got EnR's Team Tourny on my hands, so I'll leave this open to discussion about spyware and viruses you have had!

"Very hard to remove of if you are dumb..." Very hard to remove of?! That's doesn't even make sense...

And look at this... "that can't be removed, or put away buy deselecting it when you right click..." you are using buy in the wrong way, it should be "by"

Looks like your computer is screwed!!!! XD XP

[Relambrien]

Re: Spyware scared the hell out of me!

I haven't had any serious virus or spyware infections. On my dad's computer I downloaded something which got into things a bit too privately, but that's it.

My current computer is protected by Symantec Antivirus and Firewall. I also run Spybot and Ad-Aware scans biweekly. I instantly scan anything I download before I open it. This has kept my computer virus-free for over a year, though to be honest, there's nothing I've ever scanned that has been registered as dangerous.

[monp787]

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Last virus that hit my laptop was the peper.a trojan

Troj/Peper-A is a Trojan which downloads files from the internet to the victim's computer.

Troj/Peper-A drops several copies of itself, with system and hidden attributes set, within the Windows system folder as randomly-named EXE files and adds an entry to the registry at

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

to run itself on system restart.

Note, the entry in the registry may point to a different copy of the Trojan after every reboot.

Troj/Peper-A also drops a hidden encrypted data file within the Windows system folder which contains information about the copies of the Trojan on the disk.

Troj/Peper-A has two copies of itself running at any time, one to download files from the internet and one to monitor the current processes IDs to make sure it is running. Thus, if one copy is terminated using the Task Manager, another copy is immediately started.

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

Re: Spyware scared the hell out of me!

I remembert the weird pop up i got that just would not close.... Very scarring mentaly.