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ATTENTION ALL MSN USERS!!!

CinoxFellpyre

CinoxFellpyre

Banned
Banned
We have once again, another malicious program that has sprung up on MSN. This program will use your Messenger to send out a message similar to this one:

is this you on pic? hxxp://ow.ly/2cUR6?=www.facebook.com/photo.php?=yourusername@youremail.com (Please don't click it >.=.>)

If you ever get a message, immediately tell the person and tell him to change his password. NO FUCKING EXCEPTIONS. If you clicked the link, and you were not lucky enough to have an antivirus that STOPPED IT IN TIME, then take these steps.....

1) Download Avast! Antivirus. It not only stops you from doing stupid things, but it also will clean out your PC of the program.

2) Change your password for EVERYTHING YOU HAVE, including for sites that are secure authentication, like PayPal, eBay, Second Life. If the program is a Trojan (which I bet it is) then it will attempt to snag your info through sites that link to your confidential information, even facebook.

3) Forward this message to everyone on your contact list. They need to know this....

Please take heed of this....
 
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Slyck

New Member
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(the patient offered the surgeon for a cup of coffee) - excellent


Doin' it right?
 
Runefox

Runefox

Kitsune of the PC Master Race
Uh huh... This isn't really news. Just another in the long, infinite line of MSNspam-malware that's existed for over a decade since the first release.

The truly sad thing is, people click this stuff.
 
Jaden

Jaden

That is irrelevant
CinoxFellpyre said:
We have once again, another malicious program that has sprung up on MSN. This program will use your Messenger to send out a message similar to this one:

is this you on pic? hxxp://ow.ly/2cUR6?=www.facebook.com/photo.php?=yourusername@youremail.com (Please don't click it >.=.>)

If you ever get a message, immediately tell the person and tell him to change his password. NO FUCKING EXCEPTIONS. If you clicked the link, and you were not lucky enough to have an antivirus that STOPPED IT IN TIME, then take these steps.....

1) Download Avast! Antivirus. It not only stops you from doing stupid things, but it also will clean out your PC of the program.

2) Change your password for EVERYTHING YOU HAVE, including for sites that are secure authentication, like PayPal, eBay, Second Life. If the program is a Trojan (which I bet it is) then it will attempt to snag your info through sites that link to your confidential information, even facebook.

3) Forward this message to everyone on your contact list. They need to know this....

Please take heed of this....
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I clicked
nothing happened :3
 
ArielMT

ArielMT

'Net Help Desk
Nyloc

Nyloc

Evil villain
I never click on links from friends anyway, too many mental scars have seen to that.
 
ArielMT

ArielMT

'Net Help Desk
I take it back. MSE was two days out of date. I re-scanned the file, and it alerted.
 
Runefox

Runefox

Kitsune of the PC Master Race
Hmm, I wonder if Avast picks it up.

Edit: Yeeeup. Never even asked. Just blorp. Gone to the chest.
 
Nyloc

Nyloc

Evil villain
Love it when it does that :D
 
Runefox

Runefox

Kitsune of the PC Master Race
south syde dobe

south syde dobe

4th Elite General
yea it hit me but I'm alright though I didn't have avast sadly and had avg
 
DragonLover17

DragonLover17

Rex the Anthro Dragon
Yea i have msn but guess what I dont have the messenger got rid of it cause it was slowing my pc down. I have dial-up and I fucking hate it.
 
Willow

Willow

FAF's #1 Terrorist
If this affected YIM too, then it must have passed already, because I never got any message like that
 
Shiroka

Shiroka

Love is the message
I don't see the use in making such a big deal of IM spam bots on forums and such. Viruses basically work like this. If you know how to deal with one, you know how to deal with every one.
 
benanderson

benanderson

Banned
Banned
All my friends have strong passwords (containing upper-case and lower-case letters, numbers, punctuation and special characters) and we don't let anyone on our contact list unless they ask first (and we wont guarantee a yes). Non of us have ever gotten bot links like that before, or at least I know I haven't. Plus we all either use a Mac or have the resident and web shields running in AVG free.

On a side note, AVG free is much better than Avast IMHO. :b
 
ArielMT

ArielMT

'Net Help Desk
WillowWulf said:
If this affected YIM too, then it must have passed already, because I never got any message like that
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One mutation or another makes the rounds on all the major IM networks.

benanderson said:
On a side note, AVG free is much better than Avast IMHO. :b
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AVG didn't detect this variant as malicious as of yesterday, which is why it wasn't a defense for Dobe.

Truthfully, it seems like it's becoming a pot-luck which AV programs pick up on new malware variants timely enough to be effective.

Also, that SMBC comic is right on. We need programs to protect us from ourselves.
 
Runefox

Runefox

Kitsune of the PC Master Race
benanderson said:
On a side note, AVG free is much better than Avast IMHO. :b
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AVG is heavier on system resources, slower, and according to AV-Comparatives (they disallow linking directly into anything but their main page), Avast has a better detection rate. Avira is supposedly better still, but from what I've seen in the past, Avira is pretty heavy on system resources. Maybe that's changed, but I don't know. Avast certainly doesn't slow my PC down in any noticeable manner.

AVG has also had a number of issues, such as focus-stealing, and failing to properly update modules when going from the 8.5 to 9.0 versions, which in at least one case caused Outlook/Exchange to stop working completely because the plugin would fail to load. They were very lax about acknowledging and fixing these issues, and my confidence in AVG has been shaken dramatically.
 
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net-cat

net-cat

Infernal Kitty
For some reason, I thought of this.

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But yes. Don't click on strange things without proper protection.
 
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