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Paradox wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

BWOG wrote:

That makes me worry more. What state?

Kentucky

I heard it was in Nevada, Iowah, and Cali too

Iowa 

I... Live... There...        

BWOG wrote:

Paradox wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

Kentucky

I heard it was in Nevada, Iowah, and Cali too

Iowa 

I... Live... There...        

The Kentucky one would reboot your computer every 60 seconds if you got infected.

BWOG wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

BWOG wrote:

Iowa 

I... Live... There...        

The Kentucky one would reboot your computer every 60 seconds if you got infected.

At least my computer doesn't keep restarting.

Eeeeesh.

You got lucky.

On my computer about a month ago, I recieved a virus in the form of an add-on. You should always check in Manage Add-ons if you have a strange problem.
So anyway, what happened was:
1. It made a fake window saying that there are hundreds of trojans all over my PC, and then it said that you needed Antivir. If you clicked anywhere on the window, it took you to the website. The window's close button was painted on; it didn't work. The website had a blocked url (aka about:blank when it is not blank)
2. When I opened all sorts of windows, it switched the url to a blocked one and it linked me to a website that had you buy a product (trying to steal credit card information). I was smarter than that. I right-clicked and opened View Source, and it gave me the real name. I went to it and it said I needed a password.
3. I looked into Program Files, and there was a program called AV. I deleted it. I went into manage add-ons and deleted the strange one. The problem cleared up.
Note: If you tried to go to google.com, it would change the url to www.google.com/www.google.com. Of course, that wasn't a real site, so it gave me a 404. I tried Bing, and Bing wasn't affected. There I looked up how to remove antivir from my computer.
Note II: McAfee didn't realize there was a problem until a few minutes before this post.

Last edited by schism (2010-05-06 16:37:41)

RHY3756547 wrote:

BWOG wrote:

I went through all the processes and all the ones I don't remember there I looked up and they all look safe... I have restarted my computer so maybe it's gone now. I haven't turned the speaker up eathier so...

explorer.exe is a spyware application and should always be terminated.

DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT EXPLORER.EXE IS!?!?!?
IT'S THE SHELL OF ALMOST ALL MICROSOFT WINDOWS COMPUTERS!

Crud... caps lock... was on

somelia wrote:

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH...

Actually sounds like the Conficker worm which I got.

I wrote:

I right-clicked and opened View Source, and it gave me the real name.

It was the Blacklist trojan.

Oh yes, often on my older computer.

gettysburg11 wrote:

Yeah, it's happened to me before. I just reopened the internet and it stopped.

Yeah.

Perhaps you clicked on an ad and didn't realize it, BWOG?

Lord-Sprites wrote:

somelia wrote:

gettysburg11 wrote:

Yeah, it's happened to me before. I just reopened the internet and it stopped.

Yeah.

Perhaps you clicked on an ad and didn't realize it, BWOG?

Sometimes, I don't get you. I don't see why you're talking to Bwog directly after you made that topic about him being gone.
Can you explain it to me?

First let me know exactly WHO I'm talking to.

You could be:

Blade-Edge, Ace-of-spades........

So...I want to know who I am talking to before.

cocoanut wrote:

somelia wrote:

Lord-Sprites wrote:

Sometimes, I don't get you. I don't see why you're talking to Bwog directly after you made that topic about him being gone.
Can you explain it to me?

First let me know exactly WHO I'm talking to.

You could be:

Blade-Edge, Ace-of-spades........

So...I want to know who I am talking to before.

You're talking to Lord-Sprites.

That is a group.

I know the username, but I don't know WHO is hiding behind it...

Lord-Sprites wrote:

We don't have anything to hide. There are just some things we don't tell others
Inside intel confirmed, by the way

I just thought he might come back on.

There. You have my answer. You happy?