Assuming it was not a false the simple running of something like avira and
another scanner regularily and blocking outgoing requests on all but a few
ports will be a big start to making things safer
Personally I just flush things by a reboot of the virtual machine (solaris
box) and running in a modified client account in winblows
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
From: skipp...@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:27:46 +0000
Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Caution to Group Members Trojan from Yahoo
Banner Advertisments
Re: Caution to Group Members
Trojan from Yahoo Banner Advertisements
I actually believe I received the trojan from a banner ad
while setting up new book-marks for one of the radio/repeater
Groups I frequent. A newly installed Kaspersky protection
package on the other computer caught the %$(^*%& script.
I have nothing against the other protection programs... but
I had McAfee, AVG, Norton, Ad Aware and a few others installed
at various times and machines trying to help and no cigar
(didn't work for me). I read a a lot of internet forum posts
regarding this worm, learned about good results people were
having with Kaspersky, installed the free demo package on a
replacement windoz machine and went looking at old haunts when
it tripped an alarm on a/the yahoo banner ad.
Not fun, not good. You'll need to learn how to clean/remove
the trojan with windoz in the safe mode as you'll find out
it prevents many things from functioning. Worse case is the
worm has a built in smtp (email) engine and will send your
passwords and other information to some very bad people.
Teaches me for getting away from Linux... back to a dual
boot machine.
s.
> Mike/W5JR <w5jr.m...@...> wrote:
>
> I've spent the last 24 hours on this very issue. And I was on the yahoo site
> yesterday. :(
>
>
> Mike
>
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