Virus!

[MikeMorgan]

I'm sure I picked up a trojan from woodworkingmagazineindex.com yesterday. I entered a search term and pressed "search" and a fake "Homeland Security"
screen popped up and locked my computer. Be careful!

[durango dude]

Were I to guess - chances are - that page didn't give it to you --- but that page had content to trigger a trojan that worked its way into your computer some time earlier.

Trojans have a knack of "sleeping" for awhile - and then rearing their ugly head.

If you have what I think you have - reset your browser settings, and use system restore to go back to a month ago.

Once you're up and running -
scrub your computer with
- Malware bytes
- an anti-virus of your choice (I use Avast)

Once you scrub your computer, clean your registry:
- Glary Utilities

Sounds like a lot of work - but my machine went from infested and crawling --- to lean, mean, screaming machine --- with these simple steps.

[cabinetman]

Thanks for the heads up on the link.

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[durango dude]

Here's a summary of the Norton scan of the index web site:

http://safeweb.norton.com/report/sho...azineindex.com

You can also check Google's safebrowsing database.

The caveat is ---- these utilities can't always inspect pages that are secured by user names and passwords.

So what's the conclusion? - I'd guess you got your trojan elsewhere - the index simply had content that triggered the trojan.

[cork58]

Just downloaded Glary, ran it and was very impressed. Thanks Dude for the tip!

Cork

[All Thumbs]

So what's the conclusion? - I'd guess you got your trojan elsewhere - the index simply had content that triggered the trojan.

Sometimes it isn't even triggered by content on another page, but rather by a period of time. Sometimes it waits some # of minutes, harvesting your passwords for E-Mail and any saved passwords for web sites, then watches to see if you go to any secure sites, etc., and then after so many minutes, whammo!

[BigguyZ]

I was seeing some goofy things while browsing, and after running AdAware I found out I had a program ADSense that added additional pop-ups and imbedded ads on the web. Seemed harmless enough, but annoying.

What irks me is that there are a ton of legit programs that will install and add all of these secondary programs that they get paid to include (like the Yahoo bar or something like that). That's why I never use the "Standard Install" option. It's always Custom, so I can unclick the options that install these additional programs.