Have to laugh at my own stupidity !

**sinfull** · 20th August 2008, 08:23

Not really a joke but more of a warning for those complacent enough to open links from unknown sources !

Was quietly nosing around through here around 8 30 yesterday morning when i recieved an email from ecard.org saying someone had sent me an ecard !
Well i thought to myself, haha who's found a new toy to play with (large mail contact list so could be anyone) Get on average 4 or 5 emails a day with jokes !
So i go blindly in and open the link, lol knew i'd fucked up within 30 seconds and started closing everything down, disconnecting the nett(in case whatever i had introduced took over my mail list and infected 30 others) not a good look !
Truth be known it was prolly one of those on my list who had sent me this one !
Well talk about fucked up trev haha blue screen of death flashing in and out pc shuttin down during scans and having to restart all the time ! (sure it's artificial intell.)
My Avg spyware couldn't pick it up, Avg antivirus never found it !
Adaware found 3 malware and 3 trojans but when i tried to remove them it couldn't and just seized the pc again !
Was all but resigned to the fact i was gonna have to spend a day formatting and rebooting the hard drive !
But thought just one more, so downloaded spybot to give that a shot as sometimes if you bring a new one in after the infection they find them !
Glad i did ! 11 pm last night i finally caught the bloody trojans and would recomend spybot, as it tells you a description of the infection, one of them, the virtumonde trojan is apparently hard to remove and spybot gives ya step by step inst. how to delete it from the pc !

Cant wait to hear from someone on my mail list that their pc crashed ! Might just send them another gift !!! (cant blame no one here lol grrrr talk about dumb trev)

**NZsarge** · 20th August 2008, 08:26

Bugger, good skillz on the spybot thingy tho.

**sinfull** · 20th August 2008, 08:32

Yeah was starting to stamp me feet a bit !
Had downloaded microsofts malicious software remover which even had the virtumonde trojan on its list that it will remove (but only if its active) and that never found that one !
I'm sure they know they being hunted and hide lol bloody things

**nodrog:Me** · 20th August 2008, 08:32

i have been getting those emails too, im tempted to open one here at work for shits and giggles.

**sinfull** · 20th August 2008, 08:34

Originally Posted by nodrog

i have been getting those emails too, im tempted to open one here at work for shits and giggles.

I'm gutted i deleted the original email or i'd be tempted to return it to them under another guise !

**nodrog:Me** · 20th August 2008, 08:40

Originally Posted by sinfull

I'm gutted i deleted the original email or i'd be tempted to return it to them under another guise !

you evil bastard

**SpeedyGirl** · 20th August 2008, 08:51

I got that email last week and it took out IT guys here 4 hours to restore my laptop!!! GRRRRRR

**sinfull** · 20th August 2008, 08:55

Originally Posted by SpeedyGirl

I got that email last week and it took out IT guys here 4 hours to restore my laptop!!! GRRRRRR

Haha yeah she was a goody aye ? And first i seen using that disguise, had a couple of ecards in the past so fell for it big time !
(polishes his nails on his chest ! IT GUY !!!) Even if it took me 15 hours lol

**MyGSXF:Me** · 20th August 2008, 09:15

Yep.. had several arrive over the past couple of days..

fortunately I suspected something was up & they went straight to the rubbish bin without being opened!

**pete376403** · 20th August 2008, 20:11

is this the one also know as Hallmark (appears to be a Hallmark card)?

**blacksheep** · 20th August 2008, 20:15

Originally Posted by MyGSXF

Yep.. had several arrive over the past couple of days..

fortunately I suspected something was up & they went straight to the rubbish bin without being opened!

had a couple too,suspected someyhing was up and bounced them back to sender

**McJim** · 20th August 2008, 20:16

I'm not popular enough to get ecards

**sinfull** · 20th August 2008, 22:22

Originally Posted by McJim

I'm not popular enough to get ecards

You can have this one Jim lol Still got the trojan in here or the damage it's done anyway grrrr !
Now i cant get out of safe mode !

**blairh** · 20th August 2008, 22:31

A good solution is to use Firefox and download an addon called 'noscript' - stops websites from being able to run javascript etc (which is how they download the files) - of course you can whitelist sites that you go to often so that the safe scripts can be run... flash videos etc.

I've run this setup for the last year or so and haven't looked back..