Re: Is this a known virus?
From: Albert Sims (nospamplease_at_snotmail.com)
Date: 04/30/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:30:47 -0500
Steve Nielsen wrote:
> 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
I was billed earlier this month by a company called "MyPaySystems.com"
for a site called "Dating Playground". I had never heard of either
company. Still fighting with them and my credit card company to get my
$49.95 reimbursed. I've ran up to date AdAware and Spybot, and cleaned
out any scumware they found. Went to "RipoffReport.com" and found about
7 other people that have been charged by those companies.
-- Albert Sims West Monroe,Louisiana
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