Trojan warning

[vraiblonde]

I just received an email that said I had an e-card from Alex. It so happens that my daughter's name is Alex, so I thought, "How sweet" and clicked to view it.

The second the webpage popped up, McAfee blasted out a warning that it detected a trojan and started a virus scan. Found SEVEN trojans that this frigging webpage installed on my system. And I know it had to be that because I just did a scan yesterday and I was clean.

The email looked like this:

Greetings!

Alex has sent you an E-Card -- a virtual postcard from FitStop.us. You can pickup your card at the FitStop.us website.

-> If your e-mail is hot-link enabled, click here:
h!!p://fitstop.us/cards/cards.php?code=myemailaddress (Edited so nobody clicks the link)


Your E-Card will be available for 15 days from the sending date.
To keep your E-Card accessible indefinitely, you may want to join "My E-Cards" -- an option to do so is provided in your E-Card!

and came from support@ecards.com

 

[fishn guy]

I just received an email that said I had an e-card from Alex. It so happens that my daughter's name is Alex, so I thought, "How sweet" and clicked to view it.

The second the webpage popped up, McAfee blasted out a warning that it detected a trojan and started a virus scan. Found SEVEN trojans that this frigging webpage installed on my system. And I know it had to be that because I just did a scan yesterday and I was clean.

The email looked like this:


and came from support@ecards.com

I got that, stop-zilla can kill them all.

 

[Tonio]

I hate when that crap happens. At home I use Mozilla Firefox, which is much less vulnerable than IE.

 

[mainman]

I just received an email that said I had an e-card from Alex. It so happens that my daughter's name is Alex, so I thought, "How sweet" and clicked to view it.

The second the webpage popped up, McAfee blasted out a warning that it detected a trojan and started a virus scan. Found SEVEN trojans that this frigging webpage installed on my system. And I know it had to be that because I just did a scan yesterday and I was clean.

The email looked like this:


and came from support@ecards.com

I think its odd that mcafee would let them install in the first place, it should catch them before they install....

 

[Pete]

Whew, I thought this was an alert about defective condoms.

 

[fddog]

Whew, I thought this was an alert about defective condoms.

 

[Hello6]

Dear Vrai:

I am a Nigerian businessman, and have just sent you an ecard!

God Bless

Nigerian Businessman

 

[cattitude]

I just did a scan yesterday and I was clean.

 

[vraiblonde]

I think its odd that mcafee would let them install in the first place, it should catch them before they install....

That's what I thought.

 

[vraiblonde]

Okay, never mind - I'm all goofed up on what apparently happened. It seems that McAfee shot me the warning when I went to the webpage, but the infected files had nothing to do with that page or email - the trojans were found in quarantined emails that SpamKiller caught last night or today.

But, still, don't open any e-card files with a link to fitstop.us.

 

[Otter]

I have McAfee on my home computer and somehow I got the Klez_H trojan on my PC a couple weeks ago...Checked my logs after the fact and never saw any warning. Had a he!! of a time getting it off, the tool I got from McAfee didn't clear it, so I downloaded a bunch of clean-up tools from other vendors that finally cleared it. Not sure what tool cleared it but my PC hasn't run right since then. As soon as I backup/transfer some files to my new pc, I will format and reload.

 

[cattitude]

eww...you and Vrai stay away from me. enicillan:

 

[mainman]

I have McAfee on my home computer and somehow I got the Klez_H trojan on my PC a couple weeks ago...Checked my logs after the fact and never saw any warning. Had a he!! of a time getting it off, the tool I got from McAfee didn't clear it, so I downloaded a bunch of clean-up tools from other vendors that finally cleared it. Not sure what tool cleared it but my PC hasn't run right since then. As soon as I backup/transfer some files to my new pc, I will format and reload.

If you are going through the trouble of formatting and reloading, may I suggest debugging as well.. That way you know its clear! If you need instructions I'll post them...

 

[Oz]

But, still, don't open any e-card files with a link to fitstop.us.

I thought only novice computer users clicked on these things in the first place?



Memo to self: Add chicks to the above stereotype...

 

[cattitude]

debugging ..

Bugs too.













I know, I'm being a PITA.

 

[Pete]

My Dell laptop came with MacAffe. I tried it for a while and did not like it much. I loaded the Norton internet security I already had. I like it more, I am not sure why.

 

[vraiblonde]

I thought only novice computer users clicked on these things in the first place?

Normally I wouldn't have but I thought it was from my daughter. :clearingmygoodname:

 

[Otter]

If you are going through the trouble of formatting and reloading, may I suggest debugging as well.. That way you know its clear! If you need instructions I'll post them...

debugging??? Formatting the hard drive does wipe it clean??? Splain it to me, Lucy....(please)..

 

[sleuth]

If you are going through the trouble of formatting and reloading, may I suggest debugging as well.. That way you know its clear! If you need instructions I'll post them...

Please do...

I was under the impression that once you format, there's no debugging to be done?

I know that there are programs out there that can retrieve files even after a format. Is the debugging process in case the format didn't clean everything up?

 

[sleuth]

debugging??? Formatting the hard drive does wipe it clean??? Splain it to me, Lucy....(please)..

Not clean.. but it is supposed to "release" everything on the drive to be "written over". Like I said there are programs that can retrieve files even after a format.

I'm kinda curious about this debugging thing to.