Aces High Bulletin Board
Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: Widewing on September 28, 2013, 07:31:46 AM
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Pop-ups and ads for a media player? Looks like the BBS has been hacked.
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It is not the BBS, but malware/spyware on your computer using the BBS WEB page as one of the triggers.
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It is not the BBS, but malware/spyware on your computer using the BBS WEB page as one of the triggers.
You are spot on... My daughter apparently used a download site and picked up Conduit... It's not a virus, but populates pages with adds... I fixed it (uninstalled it and deleted all other files)
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I caught that thing last year when it forced a search engine into my browser and took control of my home page and the ability to uninstall addons. They used a very convincing window from Adobe for my viewer that didn't trigger my malware detection. None of the cleaners I found on the Internet for it worked or they wanted $19.95 to unlock the cleaner after showing all the payloads and registry paths. So I had to dig it out of my registry long hand while following about 27 file paths to get rid of every place it hid itself. At the last location it had removed every user and group's access to the file and folder. Once I got that taken care of, finally, a deep scan in safe mode detected the rest of the hidden payloads.
That was last years vintage of conduit.