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GrapJ

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nice hack thought
wondering how to get the source-code for those two files (ntos.exe,Trojan.Gpcoder.E)
 

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Just ran into an article that everyone should read. Apparently, Google just did a study of how many websites have drive-by attack software installed on them. Unbelievably, its about 1 in 1,000. They even found that someone had hacked Al Gore's website. And its not just porn sites, they found them on all kinds of sites:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,142574-c,google/article.html
 

GrapJ

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Man, its been awhile since I've posted in here. Anyway, anyone here use Monster.com for finding a job? It turns out that their servers were hacked last month and the personal info on about 1.6 million users was compromised! Some nasty little trojan got onto their servers and was uploading peoples info to a server somewhere in the world. Heres the article:

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/08/a_monster_trojan.html

Just a reminder.........NEVER, EVER put valuable personal info on the web. If Monster.com can be easily hacked, just about anyone can.

not last month; this happened a much longer while ago, they found 1.6 Million fields filled with personal data in a database on a server in Ukraine.
 

mindido

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Hey Grap,

Uggh, that post was from October of last year.
 

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It just goes to show how far these scumbag virus developers will go. Another new one on me. Believe it or not, we now have to be very careful before using just about any new USB device. The following article describes how hackers have somehow got their tentacles into brand new digital photo frames. Plug the thing in and you have some type of virus. One person saying that it took him about 12 hours to get rid of.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/null/66647

Be aware!
 

Kaneinite

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Plug the thing in and you have some type of virus. One person saying that it took him about 12 hours to get rid of.

Be aware!

Haha! I work at Best Buy in the Appliance department while I'm going to school and those picture frames were right across from my department during the holidays...a lot of people bought them...
 

mindido

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Haha! I work at Best Buy in the Appliance department while I'm going to school and those picture frames were right across from my department during the holidays...a lot of people bought them...

Kane,

Did you ever hear of any problems from customers? Most people probably didn't even realize where the virus came from.
 

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I found this story today. If you bank online and if you do it using Internet Explorer or Firefox as your browser, there is a Trojan virus called Zeus out there looking for your machine. It collects passwords and personal data by logging your keystrokes, then transmits it to a server somewhere in the world where it can be used or sold on to other bad guys.

The news article says we need to keep our firewall and anti-virus and our browsers up to date, like this is a really valuable insight. The most effective precaution I could think of is to have an old laptop reserved exclusively for internet banking and to do all social web browsing on a different machine, but that's quite an expensive option and even then, who can say how secure you really are?

Myself: I don't bank on the web. I prefer not to even use my credit card there but there are times when you can't avoid it, so I would imagine I am vulnerable to something like Zeus as well.

Let's be careful out there.
 

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I found this story today. If you bank online and if you do it using Internet Explorer or Firefox as your browser, there is a Trojan virus called Zeus out there looking for your machine. It collects passwords and personal data by logging your keystrokes, then transmits it to a server somewhere in the world where it can be used or sold on to other bad guys.

The news article says we need to keep our firewall and anti-virus and our browsers up to date, like this is a really valuable insight. The most effective precaution I could think of is to have an old laptop reserved exclusively for internet banking and to do all social web browsing on a different machine, but that's quite an expensive option and even then, who can say how secure you really are?

Myself: I don't bank on the web. I prefer not to even use my credit card there but there are times when you can't avoid it, so I would imagine I am vulnerable to something like Zeus as well.

Let's be careful out there.

Are you joking about the separate laptop? If you're that clueless about internet security and the way with which malware operates than I think that you shouldn't be surfing the web at all.

Everyone who surfs the internet should do so with current and updated malware protection software. There's enough good free internet security programs out there today that no one has an excuse for surfing the web without active protection. Avast, Avira and Microsoft Security Essentials are all relatively good free programs that offer protection from viruses and spyware. They even give you a firewall too. If you're someone who pays for your internet security software (which I recommend) than you just need to make sure you don't let it expire and that it's updated regularly. Using a secondary program that's dedicated to spyware alone like Super Anti-Spyware or Malwarebytes is also very important. You do all of these things and I can guarantee that you'll avoid about 95% of these sorts of problems.
 

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Are you joking about the separate laptop? If you're that clueless about internet security and the way with which malware operates than I think that you shouldn't be surfing the web at all.

What an insulting fucking arsehole to someone who is only trying to help others on this forum!:angryrazz
 

scoundrel

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Are you joking about the separate laptop? If you're that clueless about internet security and the way with which malware operates than I think that you shouldn't be surfing the web at all.
Ignorant of the world wide web perhaps but at least I am not ignorant of elementary courtesy and good manners. Whichever charm school you attended mervin, I strongly recommend that you sue them for a full refund.
Everyone who surfs the internet should do so with current and updated malware protection software. There's enough good free internet security programs out there today that no one has an excuse for surfing the web without active protection. Avast, Avira and Microsoft Security Essentials are all relatively good free programs that offer protection from viruses and spyware. They even give you a firewall too. If you're someone who pays for your internet security software (which I recommend) than you just need to make sure you don't let it expire and that it's updated regularly. Using a secondary program that's dedicated to spyware alone like Super Anti-Spyware or Malwarebytes is also very important. You do all of these things and I can guarantee that you'll avoid about 95% of these sorts of problems.
Now this is helpful and for this I thank you. I will reflect upon this good advice. In return, I would suggest you should consider what you can possibly lose by being a bit less abrasive towards perfect strangers on the internet: it's not big and it's not clever.
 

usninc

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Long time visitor but first time poster.

I used a few free spyware/anti virus programs and it helped me about 50% of the time.
I was finally running slow and fighting things on my computer for so long that I ended up buying a anti virus/spyware removal program and cleaner....AWESOME!

I had so many problems and it cleaned them all out.
I'm running fast and even seem to connect to my wireless network at a better speed.

I'm not saying a paid program works better than a free one but for me it did.

Happy and safe surfing to all.

USNinc
 
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