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04-04-2014, 01:56 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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A real bad trojan
So yesterday I get an email form USPS saying that they have a package for me. I have been waiting for some parts for one of my chain saws so i click the link in the email and, yup, you guessed it. I got some of the worst trojan infections I have even encountered.
Now, I was in this business and have some of the most sophisticated virus elimination software there is. I could not eradicate it. Embedded itself in several registries. Finally Kapersky did the job but it's a nasty one. Severity level 1 and designed as a password stealer.
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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04-04-2014, 07:35 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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I hope nobody got pregnant.
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PRO CHOICE REPUBLICAN
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04-04-2014, 07:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,463
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Paul, rebuild your machine. There are a lot of bugs that just can't be fixed and you'll never know.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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04-05-2014, 04:36 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
Paul, rebuild your machine. There are a lot of bugs that just can't be fixed and you'll never know.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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Jeff, that's what I ended up doing. |
No boat, back in the suds.
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04-05-2014, 08:14 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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hover over any link to see the content before you launch, it's very nasty out there
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04-05-2014, 08:51 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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This particular Trojan drops pieces of executables in several non-removable registry entries. I'm good now but it took 4 hours to get all of it.
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No boat, back in the suds.
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04-05-2014, 06:14 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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Quote:
Originally Posted by striperman36
hover over any link to see the content before you launch, it's very nasty out there
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the most rampant and growing crime
(including identity theft) and the least prosecuted
for PUNY punishment that it's no wonder it's So
out of control....
Every guy knows..............
That a really BAD Trojan is the one that leaked
Last edited by Raven; 04-10-2014 at 06:42 AM..
Reason: adding secret content
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05-23-2014, 08:25 PM
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Callinectes sapidus
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 6,277
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Another real bad one we recently encountered was a variant of cryptolocker.
We had numerous user accounts who's folders were being held ransom. Asking for bitcoin to obtain the encryption key.
As stated above and in the other email-thread, a lot of bad junk out there right now. Other than changing passwords, that email thing is a tough one. It's even infiltrated strong passwords....I'm talking 10 character, upper, lower, numerical, & symbol combinations. Skumbuckets having a ball at everyone else's expense...   |
 ... it finally happened, there are no more secret spots
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05-27-2014, 05:29 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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talk about nasty
locked me up solid
safe mode useless
virus protection didn't prevent it
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05-27-2014, 01:57 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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I've created rescue disks for all of my machines, also NAS backups of all meaningful content. I should go cloud for photo backups, haven't done so yet
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05-27-2014, 03:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,690
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What happens if I open something like that on my Mac?
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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05-27-2014, 09:25 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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well........
you'll have a MAC ATTACK  |
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