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Pillar of the Community
United States
1418 Posts |
Earlier this year, I got attacked with a virus from coin community. It wasn't the site, just a coincidence.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2669 Posts |
My son had not used his computer for 2 weeks.. he went to Google and the same one popped up.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1523 Posts |
Hummm. I hope that's the case because I like Heritage.I will just wait for awhile before going back.That was a major pain.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4846 Posts |
WOW!this might be a country wide virus, or maybe its targeting coin collectors only  NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2335 Posts |
That virus is one of the biggest scams ever. My In-laws have had it 3 times & I got it about a month ago. My Father In-Law has the bad habit of clicking on links he shouldn't. I picked it up when I accidently clicked on an advertisement. The darn thing is hard to get rid of.
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Valued Member
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Here is someone else who got it yesterday: http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/in...83;topicseenCan't vouch for the program they recommend to clean it up, but they say boot in safe mode. I like my Mac, even though she's getting old. Not Heritage's fault or targeting coin collectors. lol... Edited by realpenny
05/25/2010 8:29 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1418 Posts |
I had to use McAfee security center to get rid of it. They charged me 100 dollars for something their program should have prevented in the first place.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1523 Posts |
I had to pay 49.99 from HP.I have McAfee as well and it went right around it.I hope it never hits here although now I know how to get rid of it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1418 Posts |
You know how to get rid of that one. If you get a different one, you're stuck.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1523 Posts |
My HP has a recovery system. I just go back to a date before the attack and wipe it out.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1733 Posts |
For those of you without I recommend the freeware version of Malware Bytes. It's simple and offers another way out IF you install it in non active mode and just leave it there in case you need it.
Why? Some trojans and malware actively prevent the installation of malware removal software once you are infected. It's like having a bandaid in the car just in case...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2669 Posts |
You can't launch exe's after the false warning comes up, or launch any sites to download a different one... you pretty much have to reboot in safe mode (with networking support, so you can browse), and download/run all virus scanners from there.
McAfee stinger is good for your anti-virus kit - checks specifically for worms and trojans. It found three installs of this thing and M$ Security Essentials found another. Malware Bytes and Spybot didn't see any of them.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1733 Posts |
They all have blindspots. I find McAfee returns a lot of false positives on tmp files the browser didn't allow to execute in the first place.
Bottom line though; have a couple lines of defense, start in safe mode and then clean up.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
851 Posts |
An Apple a day keeps the viruses away....
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2120 Posts |
You know.. no virus' in lunux. Just sayin...  |
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