Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Roscoroo on October 04, 2003, 12:24:09 AM
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this bug comes in thru active X scriptings and there is no AV fix for it it exploites IE and OE . go to this site for further info....
http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/31756.html
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This is what Tumor was running into in another thread. I posted a url with some things you can try to fix the issue, but it's nto a definite.
shrpshtr
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I had a feeling thats what may have been going on w/ Tumor's pc
Had to start a warning thread though ....Micro trend has a deleation process for it but it looks like nooooooooo fun thats for shure.
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Yeah the whole process involves a registry hack and is pretty involved. Annoying little trojan to say the least.
shrpshtr
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So, if you use a popup killer, you are probably safe?
Sure sounds like it to me...
*pats google toolbar*
BB
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actually your not safe with a popup stopper for this one... its part of the unsigned active X scripting ... (that fancy flashy junk on webpages ect) disable all your active X controls except for the signed ones (place those on prompt)
pop up stoppers stop unwanted pages from opening /instant downloads/that stupid porn virus/and other maliciuos stuff.
It does not stop active X or other java script virus's.
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Check Windows update 2 new releases today.
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What releases? I seem to have this problem too.
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Does this involve resetting your home page every time you shut down yout PC as well??
I have looked for the cookie or whatever that did this but am ready to format again at this point. That will be the second time this week alone. :(
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Originally posted by Maverick
Does this involve resetting your home page every time you shut down yout PC as well??
I have looked for the cookie or whatever that did this but am ready to format again at this point. That will be the second time this week alone. :(
you have common spyware/ pornbot junk in your regestry
Deleate all your cookies/temp files...
then go to start/run/ msconfig /startup ......
look for the offending programs that shouldnt be there disable them . do not restart .. write down the program thats causing this " as example C:/windows/ startup/spammypornbot.exe "
go to start /find/ files,folders type in the offending exe search then delete these nasty things.
your favorites list should be full of this junk too... deleate those in there also . do a disk cleanup again ..reset your browser to Msn or what ever...
then restart
this is one way to get rid of this ....
anouther way is to go to add/ remove programs and remove it that way ... but sometimes its not always there, and if it is it doesnt get it all .
I cant guarrentee that this is your problem but this is a common cause of browser homepage getting changed ...
If you install a popup stopper and configure your active X to trusted sites only / prompt
along with turning off java scripting it will ussually stop this from happening . this also prevents the Qhost trojan from getting you.
I went and looked at MS updates for IE today and i havent seen a correct patch for this .... (I only checked for win 98se) my XP is on my pc at work...
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skuzzy might want to sticky this for a while.
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http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms03-040.asp
Dated October 3rd 2003
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the update isnt really much of a update i notice ... for 98 - nt it telling us to install a firewall .....
For XP it has a long list do this do that ... and a update for XP