Well, it finally happened..

GWguy

GWguy

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For the first time ever... that's EVER... I hit a web site that completely hosed me. I got trojans, viruses, backdoors, you name it, I got it. Amazing just how fast it happened. And yes, I had virus protection, 2 levels of firewall, latest and greatest patches, doing everything right. Using FireFox and Thunderbird instead of MS products. *SIGH* And oh, I should mention that I'm an IT geek by profession, so it can happen to the best of us....

So, took a while but I got it pretty well cleaned up. The only thing I can't get rid of is a blasted auto-launch of IE to ad sites when I refresh a web page using any browser on any website. That's the only visible sign, I'm sure there's more I can't see. Looks like it's going to get wiped and reloaded this weekend.
 
sockgirl77

sockgirl77

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GWguy said:
For the first time ever... that's EVER... I hit a web site that completely hosed me. I got trojans, viruses, backdoors, you name it, I got it. Amazing just how fast it happened. And yes, I had virus protection, 2 levels of firewall, latest and greatest patches, doing everything right. Using FireFox and Thunderbird instead of MS products. *SIGH* And oh, I should mention that I'm an IT geek by profession, so it can happen to the best of us....

So, took a while but I got it pretty well cleaned up. The only thing I can't get rid of is a blasted auto-launch of IE to ad sites when I refresh a web page using any browser on any website. That's the only visible sign, I'm sure there's more I can't see. Looks like it's going to get wiped and reloaded this weekend.
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I thought that trojans protected backdoors from getting viruses. :confused:
 
Mikeinsmd

Mikeinsmd

New Member
GWguy said:
For the first time ever... that's EVER... I hit a web site that completely hosed me. I got trojans, viruses, backdoors, you name it, I got it. Amazing just how fast it happened. And yes, I had virus protection, 2 levels of firewall, latest and greatest patches, doing everything right. Using FireFox and Thunderbird instead of MS products. *SIGH* And oh, I should mention that I'm an IT geek by profession, so it can happen to the best of us....

So, took a while but I got it pretty well cleaned up. The only thing I can't get rid of is a blasted auto-launch of IE to ad sites when I refresh a web page using any browser on any website. That's the only visible sign, I'm sure there's more I can't see. Looks like it's going to get wiped and reloaded this weekend.
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Please post said web site (unless it will incriminate you) :lmao:
 
wmburdette

wmburdette

9/11 - Never Forget!
Not that it will make things any better but this past week there has been a rash of incidents where coordinated efforts using SQL Injection tactics to exploit vulnerabilities, dirtbags were able to compromise a number of legitimate commercial web sites that then redirected unsuspecting visitors to sites in Taiwan where Trojans and other forms of malware would be pushed out to the visitor.

See US-CERT for the alert on the injection attacks.
 
RadioCtrlDWife

RadioCtrlDWife

New Member
injection attack

GWguy said:
US-CERT says to disable your router's UPnP...
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We almost got hit. Some Russians managed to compromise the website we frequent for an equipment supplier on Thanksgiving at midnight. We were redirected to a .ru site that tried to inject us. Kim just did a hard shutdown as she saw it force feeding our system and rebooted in safe mode with the network off. Kim is very very good at this and it still took her overnight to get rid of the crap and fix the machine. In the meantime the vendor's site was still compromised and I was unable to contact anyone there, it being midnight Thanksgiving. I wound up calling the local town sheriff and told him there was a "virtual break in" at this factory in his town and to call their emergency contact number. Thank goodness he did so and our friends got in there and secured their system or it would have been like that till Monday.
Bill About Signal Bars R Us
 
Floyd2004

Floyd2004

-Void-
GWguy said:
Wouldn't incriminate me, but I have no idea where I was at the time. It was a redirect to a redirect to a redirect .....
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This is why I have redirect turned off for my browsers :)
It will ask me if I would like to redirect instead of just going.
 
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