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Warning Possible Bug or Spyware

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  • 28-03-2008 2:08am
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    Sikamick
    Registered Users Posts: 804 ✭✭✭


    Do not not use the link on my posting in For Sale/Wanted Competition prizes there is a bug or spy-ware on the link. It will access your address book and send advertisement to all the people on your address book..

    I have removed the link and advised the Admin to remove the Thread.



    Michael O'Connor
    Secretary to Dublin Target Sports Club


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    pullandbang
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 4,948 ✭✭✭pullandbang


    There sure is....it's a key logger but your anti virus software should pick it up.

    Do a scan straight away!


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    Sikamick
    Registered Users Posts: 804 ✭✭✭Sikamick


    pullandbang wrote: »
    There sure is....it's a key logger but your anti virus software should pick it up.

    Do a scan straight away!


    Pullandbang can one trace where it came from. My friends virus checker picked up a Trojan horse the other day and he deleted it and thought everything was OK.


    I have sent a warning to all my friends that were in my address book.


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    rrpc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭rrpc


    Sikamick wrote: »

    Pullandbang can one trace where it came from. My friends virus checker picked up a Trojan horse the other day and he deleted it and thought everything was OK.


    I have sent a warning to all my friends that were in my address book.
    Not usually. Mostly you know where you've picked up something because you remember when you've done something stupid :)

    Clicking links on spam mails, opening web pages with multiple pop-ups, downloading something that's too good to be true (it usually is) the list is endless but the results are always the same :mad:

    If you have the patience and a computer that you're willing to risk, you can try and analyse the code in the virus and see where your data is being directed, but it usually doesn't help much because the domain is disposable and usually in a jurisdiction that doesn't give a fiddlers about such things.


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    pullandbang
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 4,948 ✭✭✭pullandbang


    Sikamick wrote: »

    Pullandbang can one trace where it came from. My friends virus checker picked up a Trojan horse the other day and he deleted it and thought everything was OK.


    I have sent a warning to all my friends that were in my address book.

    rrpc is right. You can't usually trace them and if you do it's usually a waste of time. Best solution is good up to date anti virus software. Mine picked it up straight away, immunised it, quarantined it, dipped it in Dettol, gave it a good hiding and dumped it in the bin :)

    Where on earth did you come across that site in the first place?


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    Bmark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭Bmark


    If you do get any spyware on your PC download Spybot Search & Destroy - its free to download and catches everything- it caught some crap on my pc that Norton completely missed !!;)


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    rrpc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭rrpc


    Bmark wrote: »
    If you do get any spyware on your PC download Spybot Search & Destroy - its free to download and catches everything- it caught some crap on my pc that Norton completely missed !!;)
    If Norton was a target shooter, it would fire first and then decide which range it was shooting on.:eek:


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    Bmark
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    rrpc wrote: »
    If Norton was a target shooter, it would fire first and then decide which range it was shooting on.:eek:

    True! i wouldn't mind but it cost a couple of hundred quid!!!!:D


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    Sikamick
    Registered Users Posts: 804 ✭✭✭Sikamick


    pullandbang wrote: »
    rrpc is right. You can't usually trace them and if you do it's usually a waste of time. Best solution is good up to date anti virus software. Mine picked it up straight away, immunised it, quarantined it, dipped it in Dettol, gave it a good hiding and dumped it in the bin :)
    Where on earth did you come across that site in the first place?

    I thought a friend had sent it, but he had been whacked as well.

    Thanks for the advice.

    Michael O'Connor
    Secretary to Dublin Target Sports Club


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