Re: Windows File Which Records Credit Card Numbers, SSN, etc.

From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 08/06/04 

Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 12:18:06 +0100

Gene K wrote:

>I have Norton Internet Security 2003. Occasionally, I get an Norton
>Anti-Virus pop up which states that there is an attempt to forward
>credit card numbers or my SSN to someone with out my permission. I have
>made attempts to prevent storage of such information in order to stop
>these furtive attempts to steal such information.

This I think will be a result of going to a page contaminated by the
Download.Ject vulnerability about which there was a lot of fuss last
month. It then infects your machine with a program that notes when you
go to a site, like a Bank, and logs keystrokes to be sent to a remote
site (in Russia - that one has been shut down, but . . . ) . Get and
run the links given at www.aumha.org/a/parasite.htm (and at the
www.lavasoftusa.com site get the VX2 plugin for the Adaware program) and
see if the warnings go away

If they do not then the only *certain* way of ensuring the machine is
clean would be a complete reformat and reinstall from the ground up,
making very sure to get firewalls in place before connection to the net
*at all* and all critical downloads before going anywhere but the update
site 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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