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piehound
28-05-2004, 07:56
if your home page changes all of a sudden do not turn your pc off as it will never boot up again
i have come accross 2 this week its a virus that norton or no other virus protection picks up and screws the registry on boot up
mine is 1 of them and its foooooooked gonna be a long day , im on my spare pc at the mo as the other is defunk 160 gig of info may be lost !!!!
however if you do get this prob search the net for the page you being sent to and there is a fix out there as long as you dont turn the pc off , the page i got was
mysite.com
Jezz_S13
28-05-2004, 08:25
I have a machine here that keeps changing to http://4.6.8 or something like that.
No Norton Corporate doesn't find anything.
Not sue if it's been rebooted, probably not, it's not the sort of thing we do here.
ScoobyDoo
28-05-2004, 20:09
ahh the joys of windows....
What vulnerability do you want to exploit today?™
Martin T
28-05-2004, 20:31
ahh the joys of windows....
What vulnerability do you want to exploit today?™
Well you got less choice of vunerabilities than Linux lol....
Just the hackers dont target it as much.
ScoobyDoo
28-05-2004, 20:34
Well you got less choice of vunerabilities than Linux lol....
Just the hackers dont target it as much.
My Lynx browser doesnt get hijacked :p
if your home page changes all of a sudden do not turn your pc off as it will never boot up again
i have come accross 2 this week its a virus that norton or no other virus protection picks up and screws the registry on boot up
mine is 1 of them and its foooooooked gonna be a long day , im on my spare pc at the mo as the other is defunk 160 gig of info may be lost !!!!
however if you do get this prob search the net for the page you being sent to and there is a fix out there as long as you dont turn the pc off , the page i got was
mysite.com
What a load of old toss. I had this yesterday and had the laptop on and off all day without problems. Just look in the windows directory for a file titled the same as your new homepage and delete it, problem solved.
disco-tom
28-05-2004, 23:13
Yes, but sometimes there's some malicious little program that installs itself before you do that and can stuff everything up a bit. I know I've had websites set themselves as my homepage and have stopped them the way you say, but they've also installed little bastard programs that run in the background and keep changing it back again. I look for any odd things in the processes tab in taskmanager and kill them there, first. Then search and delete anything containing the same details.
I have Java scripting on "Prompt": if I don't trust the site, I don't let it run scripts.
Martin T
28-05-2004, 23:20
Why is it allways the computer "less literate" that keep peddling this crap :no:
If you hear this kind of sh1t through email.....its bulklsh1t
if you hear it from a mate......its bullshit
if you hear it from some tosser off the street....its bullshit
If however you hear it from one of the large AV companies then its trumped up bullshit by at least there's a germ of truth in there.
www.sophos.com
www.symantec.com
I ignore www.grisoft.com since their AV product sucks donkey balls. :nod:
Oh and go to http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes/ if you want to find a nice supply of this bullshit.
Why is it that users will happily believe any bullsh1t from any random person, just because its emailed to them?
Its like some twat grabbing you in the street and saying by the way...........
:rolleyes:
*shrug* might be poo, might not be. Certainly not impossible, nor terribly difficult to write a script that alters reg settings & gets the users machine to download files. Seen enough "dodgy" websites try to put trojans/viruses onto my system. Seen enuff infected customers systems too. Funnily enough, whenever I find them, it always seems to be sites offering MP3'd albums for dlding. Or pr0n.
By strange coincidence, badly infected customers machines always seem to have loads of MP3's on them. Or pr0n. :)
Oh how we're gonna miss dialup inet conx's. 0898-dialers are always such fun when the phone bill comes in. ;)
ScoobyDoo
29-05-2004, 00:51
Why is it that users will happily believe any bullsh1t from any random person, just because its emailed to them?
Its like some twat grabbing you in the street and saying by the way...........
:rolleyes:
:smash: :smash: :smash:
Do you know how many 'tards deleted the jdbgmgr.exe file at our place? apparently AOL said it was the worst ever virus.........
Martin T
29-05-2004, 01:10
:smash: :smash: :smash:
Do you know how many 'tards deleted the jdbgmgr.exe file at our place? apparently AOL said it was the worst ever virus.........
Oh wait a minute a random email tol me this fle is a virus and looks like a teddy bear. OMG its on my computer so they must be telling the truth!!!!!! :eek:
Can I just point out that there are now 2 other files equally dangerous - the first is called boot.ini and the second explorer.exe
They are both viruses so if you see them on your computer then that prives I'm telling the truth :nod:
:smash: :smash: :smash:
Do you know how many 'tards deleted the jdbgmgr.exe file at our place? apparently AOL said it was the worst ever virus.........
yes but that email was being tracked by Microsoft, Nokia and Pepsi and if you deleleted the file you would win a million pounds, or a phone, or some coke!
ScoobyDoo
29-05-2004, 01:14
Bill gates is testing windows and will give $100 to every post replied on this thread.....
ScoobyDoo
29-05-2004, 01:15
the first is called boot.ini and the second explorer.exe
They are both viruses so if you see them on your computer then that prives I'm telling the truth :nod:
Martin I will only believe you if you say "AOL say its the worse virus ever and Microsoft say there is no cure"
mattpayne
29-05-2004, 01:17
:)
people will belive anything they get in an email... :)
not may modern viri feck up computers nowadays... :( a nice little TSR that does a low level format at the next restart... now that is simplistic, and beautiful... hell I might just write a batch file, name it 'RUN THIS AND IT WILL KILL YOUR PC.BAT' and email it around the place, asking people to send it to thier friends :) should get a few of the feckers... and they will deserve it... :D
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