Mar

5

Koobface variant worms across social networking sites

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A new strain of the Koobface worm is spreading across social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace and Bebo.
The malware posts invitations to the friends of infected users inviting them to view a video. The linked website tries to trick prospective marks into believing they need an updated version of Adobe Flash Player plugin to view […]

Feb

17

Another case of google links redirected, anti-spam sites blocked!

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Hello all!
I am experiencing exactly the same problems as ‘grayfox’ (His thread) and ‘lisaandre’ (Her thread). Needless to say it is driving me mad too and I’m starting to get the impression that my PC is becoming increasingly unstable as a result!
I’m not an expert with […]

Feb

15

I cannot open antivirus sites.

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It seems that this has been a common problem, but please, try to throw me some help sir/maam.
Thank you.
Here is my last report from combofix
ComboFix 09-01-19.03 - hawaian_fridays 2009-01-20 6:22:35.4 - NTFSx86
Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600.3.1252.1.1033.18.2047.1656 [GMT 8:00]
Running from: c:\documents and settings\hawaian_fridays\Desktop\ComboFix.exe
Command switches used […]

Feb

2

Anti Virus programs wont update and Anti Virus Sites blocked?

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This seems to be a common new problem. Mine started after falling asleep one night with the computer on. When I woke up the next morning I had the blue screen of death and everything was unresponsive so I did a hard shut down. When I […]

Jan

31

google links redirected, anti-spam sites blocked

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I have an infection I can’t get rid of. It began yesterday (1/12).
It began with google search (firefox 3.0.5) results being redirected to ad sites. Also, many links to ant-virus sites were blocked.
I searched online and found reference to a script virus causing the […]

Jan

4

Trojan/virus prefenting access to all anti-virus web sites

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About 10 days ago I started getting a notice that my anti virus data base was out of date. Normally this updates daily automatically. When I tried to update manually, I was blocked from the wesite.
This computer is a Dell, about 7 months old […]