oh damn. Thanks for the heads up.
"Sorry bucko, but CoH and CoV are the same game." -BackAlleyBrawler
"Silly villain, CoX is for Heroes!" -Saicho
Oh no!
Wow.. that really sucks.
Wait... did you have Avast installed yet? And it didnt' catch it?
Didja let the vidiotmaps people know, too? 
So sadz.
Really tho, I'm sorry your computer got hijacked. I had to deal with one of these recently and it like to drove me absolutely bat-**** crazy until I got it fixed.
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This was CD's pc, her copy was not up to date (yes I know, I'm a $#@*#$), but according to CNET and Avast websites, this jem of a virus was built with current counter-measures in mind. I'd like five minutes alone with the person who created this thing. Just five minutes.
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Originally Posted by Sooner
Oh no!
Wow.. that really sucks. Wait... did you have Avast installed yet? And it didnt' catch it? |
Well... crap.
Ok. I guess my current vidiotmaps pack will just be good enough for now, then.
Thanks for the heads up, Ice.
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Originally Posted by Sooner
Thanks for the heads up, Ice.
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"Goodbye, Jean-Luc. I'm gonna miss you... you had such potential. But then again, all good things must come to an end..." -- Q
I snagged that little beastie embedded in an ad on DeviantArt about a month back. It was a total bear to clear out, and all the little fun presents it brings with itself.
Good luck.
City of Heroes was my first MMO, & my favorite computer game.
R.I.P.
Chyll - Bydand - Violynce - Enyrgos - Rylle - Nephryte - Solyd - Fettyr - Hyposhock - Styrling - Beryllos - Rosyc
Horryd - Myriam - Dysquiet - Ghyr
Vanysh - Eldrytch
Inflyct - Mysron - Orphyn - Dysmay - Reapyr - - Wyldeman - Hydeous
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There was a thread several weeks ago about about how the Wikia version of Paragonwiki is infected where it was brought up that Vidiotmaps is also compromised.
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Originally Posted by bamaWolfie
Didja let the vidiotmaps people know, too?
So sadz.Really tho, I'm sorry your computer got hijacked. I had to deal with one of these recently and it like to drove me absolutely bat-**** crazy until I got it fixed. |
The Abrams is one of the most effective war machines on the planet. - R. Lee Ermy.
Q: How do you wreck an Abrams?
A: You crash into another one.
If the person who wrote Security Essentials put as much effort into doing a real application as they did into writing blackmail-ware they would probably make twice the money.
I got the pleasure of removing it from a friends brand new laptop a few weeks back. Not as difficult as some I have ran across, but no fun anyway.
Tech Support Rule #1 - They will lie to you. Usually intentionally.
Start with Avast! free anti-virus...
add some Spybot Search and Destory anti-spyware/malware...
carefully pour in just a bit of Regedit.exe (don't $%@& around with your registry unless you know what you're doing) or ask someone with the experience necessary to handle it for you.
and finally, throw it all in behind ZoneAlarm's free firewall.
I cannot, and do not, promise this will protect everyone, but it appears to have corrected the issue for me.
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Originally Posted by Sooner
So.. just in case someone else is so unlucky... how DO you get rid of it?
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The hard way? The last version I encountered (on Windows XP) required a specialized script to disable the virus' processes, understanding of how to operate the command prompt, edit the registry, and then use another registry script to restore .exe file functionality.
It wasn't pretty, but in the end I won.
I went for the bare handed kill. Booted into safe mode, killed all of the .exe files I could find, edited the registry, and ran MalWarebytes as a double check.
Tech Support Rule #1 - They will lie to you. Usually intentionally.
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It took me repeated scans combining McAfee AV, Windows Defender (which helped a ton, believe it or not and is free), and Stopzilla (mal ware fighter), with some registry editing. My bigger problem was the Google and Yahoo hijacker and some other trojans that the original security virus brought with it.|
Originally Posted by Sooner
So.. just in case someone else is so unlucky... how DO you get rid of it?
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I had reached a point where I was about to nuke the whole beast and start over with my restore discs when things finally broke free.
City of Heroes was my first MMO, & my favorite computer game.
R.I.P.
Chyll - Bydand - Violynce - Enyrgos - Rylle - Nephryte - Solyd - Fettyr - Hyposhock - Styrling - Beryllos - Rosyc
Horryd - Myriam - Dysquiet - Ghyr
Vanysh - Eldrytch
Inflyct - Mysron - Orphyn - Dysmay - Reapyr - - Wyldeman - Hydeous
Have any of you ever tried Combo-fix? I find that it works very well for cleaning up unwanted apps.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/comb...o-use-combofix
"Sorry bucko, but CoH and CoV are the same game." -BackAlleyBrawler
"Silly villain, CoX is for Heroes!" -Saicho
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Originally Posted by M_I_Abrahms
There was a thread several weeks ago about about how the Wikia version of Paragonwiki is infected where it was brought up that Vidiotmaps is also compromised.
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Sorry people got hit with this.
A buddy of mine, a counter-hacker, told me Facebook is crawling with this and other nasty trojans. Users should be particularly aware of high risk when playing the embedded games on Facebook and other similiar sites.
By the way, a status update from this end, I found my previous efforts did not entirely resolve my virus issues. I got rid of Security Essentials 2010, but a browser hijacker persisted in the system. So, I'm starting over from scratch, ah the joys of the interwebs.
My wish for the creators of these jems...
The things I would have befall them are too heinous to put down in print.
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Originally Posted by Ice9_
... a browser hijacker persisted in the system. So, I'm starting over from scratch, ah the joys of the interwebs...
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HijackThis isn't doing it's thing here for you?
█ Players Guide to the Cities
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Much like "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?", the world will never know if Hijackthis would have helped me or not. I'm past the point of "fixing" or "trouble-shooting", I've progressed/escalated to full out thermo-nuclear warfare. There's nothing left of what was, only a barren wasteland where little ones and zeroes used to run and play, now all is quiet and still, now there is only a gleaming monolith beconning to be used, defragged, and eventually recycled into lawn furniture.|
Originally Posted by Stalemate
HijackThis isn't doing it's thing here for you?
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But thanks for the suggestion, I'll file it away for future reference.
And yes, my sense of humor (such as it may be) has returned, allowing me to go out into public with a minimum risk of committing a violent felony against my fellow citizens.
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That's exactly what I found. The browser hijacker brought in by the initial security virus was much more insidious.
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Originally Posted by Ice9_
By the way, a status update from this end, I found my previous efforts did not entirely resolve my virus issues. I got rid of Security Essentials 2010, but a browser hijacker persisted in the system. So, I'm starting over from scratch, ah the joys of the interwebs.
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City of Heroes was my first MMO, & my favorite computer game.
R.I.P.
Chyll - Bydand - Violynce - Enyrgos - Rylle - Nephryte - Solyd - Fettyr - Hyposhock - Styrling - Beryllos - Rosyc
Horryd - Myriam - Dysquiet - Ghyr
Vanysh - Eldrytch
Inflyct - Mysron - Orphyn - Dysmay - Reapyr - - Wyldeman - Hydeous
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*wipes brow from forehead*
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Originally Posted by Ice9_
And yes, my sense of humor (such as it may be) has returned, allowing me to go out into public with a minimum risk of committing a violent felony against my fellow citizens.
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"Goodbye, Jean-Luc. I'm gonna miss you... you had such potential. But then again, all good things must come to an end..." -- Q
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You look funny with only one eyebrow.
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Originally Posted by Major_T
*wipes brow from forehead*
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Tech Support Rule #1 - They will lie to you. Usually intentionally.
This happened to me.... Twice.
The first time it destroyed my computer, it literally made it so I could not do anything. Safe mode or not. And to top the cake I lost my original disk, so I had a friend send me another one. Eventually, my mother board was just toast. I didn't have a computer for a really long time, and it drove me insane. I only had my laptop, and that wasn't cutting it. Let's just say I broke out the gameboy color and played Pokemon for awhile.
The second time was after I got my computer fixed, please do not ever go to Staples and have your computer fixed! They will take their sweet @$$ time to do it, and still want you to pay the full bill! Any ways, I was downloading everything that I had reinstall, and I was downloading some music because my original computer had over 2 months playtime worth of music. I think I was downloading some t.a.t.u and I got some Russian Secruity PC AntiVirus Hijacker thing.
Luckily, I was able to get it in time before the same thing happened all over again.
HP
Oh no...
I just sent my friend a link to the download on vidiotmaps last night.
Now I'm hoping he didn't get around to DLing it.
After I talked it up ingame so much too.
Thanks for the heads up, texting him now.
Maestro Mavius - Infinity
Capt. Biohazrd - PCSAR
Talsor Tech - Talsorian Guard
Keep Calm & Chive On!
I went to Vidiotmaps today, to re-download the latest map pack. They now use Mega Upload has their download host site. Huzzah, when I clicked to download from Mega Upload, I got kicked in my digital crotch.
I am, at this moment, attempting to purge the trojan Security Essentials 2010 from my pc. It appears the trojan piggy-backed the map pack download, and I did not catch it until it was too late. I am supremely pissed off and I'm passing the word in the hope of saving others from this load of #$*@.