Pretect yuorself from trojons,viruses,etc..

[ds dude]

hello,i wanna tell yuo how many poeple have been falling into a virus or trojons and how poeple download thing and they found out there was a trjon in it and it too late.I want poeple to read this topic but not just the professionals but the kids out there that just download everything they see which isnt a good idea.i went to a website which had a story here it is and read it.


Game not over
Published 6/28/06 by: Kyle


Got your own spyware horror story?
 

Three years ago I built an awesome (and expensive) gaming computer. It rocked, but being ignorant about computer security, I had never heard of spyware and didn't even install an antivirus program. I was playing the latest games with the highest frame rates possible and saving money by downloading free or cheap games.

One day while searching for new games, I stumbled upon a site with a large number of pop-up windows. I didn't think anything about it at the time and snagged a cool-looking shooter and disconnected from my dial-up. Then a funny thing happened. Even though I was playing the game offline, I started getting pop-ups. After a while, a full-screen pop-up appeared claiming the government was spying on my PC. There was no exit button, so I hit Alt+F4 to put the pop-up away.

The next time I logged on, the pop-up windows had multiplied. IE was totally hijacked and I had no idea what was going on. When I closed IE, multiple programs were autoinstalling, Purity Scan among them. I attempted to manually remove the programs, but the sneaks had gone underground. IE was hijacked every time I launched it, and problems persisted even after I uninstalled the game that appeared to cause the problems. My computer was slow, but workable, so I left the problem alone and went about my business.

A few months later the pop-ups skyrocketed from single digits to 50 to 60, and I couldn't access a single search engine. My computer began reporting errors and shutting down. Everything slowed to a crawl. The desktop turned pink. I researched spyware from a friend's computer and bought McAfee, but it only caught some of the invaders. Finally, I took the PC to a computer repair shop, which used a combination of Ad-Aware, Spybot - Search & Destroy, and CWShredder to remove the majority of the 1,400 parasites and 36 virus infections mostly brought on by CoolWebSearch.

It looked as if everything was finally clear, but the more I surfed the Web, the more the problems returned. The spyware-removal programs repeatedly found the same infections, and I had to run an antispyware combination twice a day to keep my computer running smoothly. Frustrated, I downloaded Spy Sweeper and Spyware Doctor, and both programs found more Trojan horses, a keylogger, and a dialer.

As new updates are released for my security programs, I'm finding more and more pieces of this huge puzzle. My computer is gradually regaining its health and I've since become the spyware expert for my friends and family.

So be safe and becareful what your doing.

[Eagles_Arrows]

Yeah, I'm sure everyone here has heard about spyware, hacks and viruses by now...

But!  I had my computer reformatted when I was eleven due to numerous spyware issues.  That experience motivated me to learn more about computers.

[kingkitty]

Dont download anything from bittorent. Or pr0nz.

That crap will kill your comp.

I had to reformat 4 times already.


...so I didnt learn after the 1st reformat....

[jrgp]

Yeah, when I used too be a computer noob I had my old dell dimension r400 with a 400mghrz pII with 384 megs of ram running win2k pro.

I had all kinds of viruses and spyware.

So I downloaded Firefox, Ad-aware SE, Crap Cleaner, Spybot SD, and lastly AVG Free and everything was fine.

So now I guess I am like a spyware expert.

But I am sick and tired of taking chances with winblows and now only use linux for my file/web/soldat server instead of windows.

If only soldat, Macromedia Studio MX 2004, Adobe CS2 Suit , Battlefeild 1942, etc would work on linux.

[Spyder]

Dont download anything from bittorent. Or pr0nz.

That crap will kill your comp.

I had to reformat 4 times already.


...so I didnt learn after the 1st reformat....

torrents and porn are fine. dont know what you are talking about :S

[Liber Lupus]

Dont download anything from bittorent. Or pr0nz.

That crap will kill your comp.

I had to reformat 4 times already.


...so I didnt learn after the 1st reformat....

Torrent's won't get you spyware..
And for porn I use this free ad-free site. Yeah, you'll get spyware if you search porn from google.

[frogboy]

I download a lot off torrent, and only get spyware when I get bored and install it myself.

[Dascoo]

pffft i've only had 4 viruses on my computer

[Mistercharles]

Pfft none (minus the time my dad's win3.11 got a virus from a floppy, but that doesn't really count).

[Twistkill]

My old Gateway computer with Norton 2003 (And it was 2005... <_<) had 11,000 viruses/spyware, and it took about 10 minutes for it to start up. IE wouldn't even open anymore, and my computer froze a lot. So, my dad goes "Ah, I'm tired of this" and bought a brand new hard drive. 80 Gb for only $75. =D So we sent that computer to my sister, who lives in Canada by herself who needed a computer. My dad then bought me a brand new Compaq Presario SR1720NX. 160 GB Hard Drive, ~2 GHZ, 512 Ram, with Norton 2006, Spybot S&D, and Firefox. I've had it since February. It still runs smoothly.

[FliesLikeABrick]

ds dude, please give us a link to where that  was originally copied from, instead/in addition of/to pasting it here.

[Lapis Lazuli]

Protect yourself from trojans, viruses, etc..

Switch to Linux.

[Slashnoob]

Dont download anything from bittorent.

every game installed on my computer is downloaded via bittorent and my computer's still clean.. so wtf are you talking about?

[kingkitty]

 Because trackers maintain lists of file sharers, it is possible to obtain the IP address of all current, and possibly previous, file sharers. It is also possible to ascertain the address of peers in the current swarm, meaning peers are open to attack from fellow file sharers. - wiki

[FliesLikeABrick]

bit-torrent is off-topic and warez discussion is not allowed on these forums

[ds dude]

flieslikeabrick:ok im sorry i wont paste again.

on subject:i understand you know about the comp and viruses or anything but not very many poeple do alot of 14 yr olds and 15 yr olds dont even no what spyware is and so i just wanna warn poeple this kinda thing is serious if you have CRDIT CARDS or some personal info.but thats not the point the point is that these things can eliminate yuor comp.

[n00bface]

Because trackers maintain lists of file sharers, it is possible to obtain the IP address of all current, and possibly previous, file sharers. It is also possible to ascertain the address of peers in the current swarm, meaning peers are open to attack from fellow file sharers. - wiki

I can get your IP address from the forums, I hardly see how that's relevant to getting you spyware or viruses.  Anybody can get any IP.

[FliesLikeABrick]

flieslikeabrick:ok im sorry i wont paste again.

on subject:i understand you know about the comp and viruses or anything but not very many poeple do alot of 14 yr olds and 15 yr olds dont even no what spyware is and so i just wanna warn poeple this kinda thing is serious if you have CRDIT CARDS or some personal info.but thats not the point the point is that these things can eliminate yuor comp.

I don't care that you pasted, I just want you to give credit to the original source.  If you don't do so, I will have to remove the paste from your original post. 

Please give us a link to where you got that paste from.

[ds dude]

well i dont know what you meen by link buti got it from www.downloads.com in the software section then go to secuirty yuo can see the story on the right side.

[Eagles_Arrows]

well i dont know what you meen by link buti got it from www.downloads.com in the software section then go to secuirty yuo can see the story on the right side.

So you got it from the Security Discussions page.