Re: Is this a known virus?
From: Steve Nielsen (steve_nielsen_at_nospam.nowhere.net)
Date: 04/30/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:56:37 -0700
Yep, you've been hit with some nasty scumware. Not a virus or trojan in
the usual sense, more along the lines of spyware. You can clean up your
system using Spybot Search & Destroy (www.security.kolla.de) and
Ad-aware (www.lavasoft.de). Install and update both and scan your system
with both (each can catch thing the other may miss). Turn on the XP
firewall, or beter yet, get one of the free firewalls available on the
web like Zona Alarm or Kerio Personal Firewall.
A very similar thing hit my machine about 3 years ago before I'd ever
had any experience with this type of malware. It was a mini-dailer my
brother in-law managed to unknowingly pickup from a porn site. I found
out about it one morning at 4 am when he was surfing, got offline to
shut down and the modem started dailing with the speaker on full blast,
which woke me up. I have my DUN set with modem speaker off so I knew
right away something was wrong. I read up on it at www.ripoffreport.com
and came to find out that some of these things can even get into a
system with a drive-by download, you don't even necessarily have to
visit a scum-site.
The real stange part is that the prono company (Alyon Technologies, I
beleive) sent a bill to my ex-girlfriend who hadn't lived in my home for
nearly two years, the phone was never in her name, she had no files or
dat on my computer but AT&T had her name on record associated with my
phone number somehow. I also learned from www.ripoffreport.com that AT&T
has assisted companies like this one in obtaining billing information
for the people they infect. Last I checked there is pending litigation
against Alyon and AT&T about this.
Made me a firm believer in firewalls and anti-spyware, let me tell you.
Also made me a firm believer in not allowing my brother in-law (or
anyone else) on my computer again.
Steve
Salisar wrote:
> I just had the weirdest and potentially most destructive thing happen to me
> and I was wondering if anyone knew if there was any virus or web scam that
> they might have heard of that works like this.
>
> I discovered, strictly by accident, that three web porn sites had withdrawn
> about $50 each from my checking account. The odd thing about this was that
> when I called the company listed in my bank statement, they had bank
> information from one user on my computer and the user name of another user
> from my computer. The other user has no way of knowing my bank information
> and I have no way of knowing the password used by his email account. It is
> as if some program scoped out a user name and password from one login
> account and then scoped out bank information from another. Has anyone heard
> of this happening before? I am tempted to report this to the authorities
> but as things look, my story is going to sound pretty far-fetched.
>
> TIA
>
> Salisar
>
>
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