36 replies to this topic

[curlywill]

right this might be a dumb question but here goes, i dont use facebook at all never have, my brother went on facebook about 2 weeks ago on my lappy, he didnt watch videos or anything he just checked his comment etc, is there a chance i could have this virus?

[fruitman69]

right this might be a dumb question but here goes, i dont use facebook at all never have, my brother went on facebook about 2 weeks ago on my lappy, he didnt watch videos or anything he just checked his comment etc, is there a chance i could have this virus?

I doubt it or you would know about it already!

and people wonder why i dont have a face book ?

these viruses have been on there in many forms for months!

Just dont click on dodgy links people!

On the same topic i have a few contacts on MSN that send me links while there "offline" and they dont even know there being sent so i suggest unless your physicly chatting to someone dont click any links even if you trust the person thats sent you it as they are prolly infected and dont know its sending to you.

Hope this helps at least one person then it was worth mentioning it

Steve P

[curlywill]

ok cheers guys, no i dont get any windows popping up and i have hardly any security warnings, so i think im ok. cheers for putting my mind at rest guys.

[stanmarsh14]

tommy c, you have a PM with needed cough cure and instructions... not that you should need it anyways, but all the same

Also, done some checking and the tools I have are out of date, and most sites suggest using the two vundo fix tools and Malwarebytes to fix this issue.

[Matty.N]

Security experts say part of the problem is that members are using passwords that are just too weak, ones like family or pet names that are often on a person's homepage and so can be easily guessed.

No-one will guess my password <3

had it for a while now & its long, very odd & a mix of number & letters

[ForYouToEnvy]

I think online armor would of stopped this with its program/process/reg guard

[kriss]

No-one will guess my password <3

had it for a while now & its long, very odd & a mix of number & letters

Hacked it it's: e1n2m3i4m5m6n7n8i9n10e11m12o13o14o15n16m17a18s19t20e21r22

Anyone eles want me to hacked there password in case they've forgotten it let me know.

[Magz]

On the subject of viruses, we've seen a whole load of instances where a rootkit has infected PCs and stops CMD prompts / scripts / regedit / regedt32 etc from running. As far as I have found, nothing picks up / fixes the issue so it has to be sorted manually. If anyone else is having this issue, I've posted the fix here:

Tech Tips

[stanmarsh14]

The laptop which was infected is running ok now and i've noticed the performance has really improved alot to what it was.

Was that fixed with the Vundo / Malwarebytes combo?

I'm interested to find out if that is the case, as I want to be prepared in case I get another rot box PC to fix with this crap on, and if true, would mean it's deffo the same fix as earlier variants of Vundo / Smitfraud.