Category: virus removal

How computer viruses use word of mouth to infect systems!

Paul

Social Networks Hype Cycle (Photo credit: fredcavazza)

Social Network is Culprit!

I remember some very interesting Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites used in the past to get people to click on an infected link.  This is one of the oldest techniques.   The virus post something on your twitter account or your Facebook account about something really interesting.   Even if you trust your friend, sometimes the friend or twitter account that you know aren’t really in control of what they post.   This is the first line of trust that the virus makers use to spread their viruses until other computers and systems.   You should never click any link unless you know where it is going.  Although this is becoming less and less troublesome, I am sure it isn’t going away but just biding it’s time to come out and strike another day.

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Using Malwarebytes to get Rid of Malware

Paul

Malwarebytes

I have been using Malwarebytes for quite some time.  I have the Installer for Malwarebytes in place on a  USB drive so i can use anywhere I go. I have seen several computers with very old Viruses and this actually detected them.

[ad]How Malwarebytes useful

  • Malwarebytes has a really good protection module to help prevent infections in the first place, but that requires you to buy it.  It should never be used without at least a [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]firewall installed[/intlink] but it is a good defense against what I like to call a Drive by install.

  • Automatically create logs of Malware that is found — This is good to for people who want to be able to check out what might be infected.   Also good to help identify the virus or Trojan, and find out how to uninfected it.

  • Cheaper than buying AVG — Cost $24.95 which is half of the cost of buying AVG.

As you can see buying Malwarebytes can be cheaper than buying AVG or Norton and protects your almost as if you have a brand name.   I think if a customer can’t afford $50 this would be the next best thing to suggest being that it will at least protect the system.   You can always install a [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]Free Anti-virus[/intlink] along with Malwarebytes to better protect your system.   This is one way to not have to buy expensive antivirus and yet still protect your systems from Malware.

No matter if you Buy Malwarebytes or use the Free version you are better off then not having it.  With the Free Version you can’t unlocks real-time protection, scheduled scanning, and scheduled updating.  These can be done manually without the having any Real time Protect.   You can scan manually and Schedule manually without buying the full version.  This is still a good buy, I recommend this to all my customers.

Not going to Twittertrain.net, just a Phishing attempt!!

Paul

So you want to have even more followers, but you don’t know how to do it?   I’ve talked about [intlink id=”3647″ type=”post”]Getting more followers and tips and tricks to get the people you want[/intlink].  Now let’s talk about this to a point.

There seems to be automatic post going out with:

“OMG WOW Im getting 100s of followers a day, Check out this site: http://twittertrain.net”

[ad]Now going to the site and giving out your password is always a bad idea.   It seems to some people think it is easy to get followers but those who have built up your followers will know just how hard it is sometimes to get more.

I would be willing to guess this is a phishing attempt to get passwords and twitter names for later on.   Some would guess this will just become another way the spammers will use this to [intlink id=”3662″ type=”post”]spread Scareware[/intlink].  I am thinking they want to get your password and save it for later use like this or others where they can get more people to click links and buy there fake products.

Graham Cluely blog post about this website also has a video about the problems associated with website. If you have given out your password, I’d strongly recommend Reseting your password if you can log in just changing the password.

I’d also suggest having [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]Anti-virus and Firewalls[/intlink] installed to help prevent any malware that might be on your system now or later on.

If your really desperate for more followers, the best proven way is make friends and communicate.  This will make it easier for people to recommend you to other people.

“Look At This” Twitter Malware Exposed!

Paul

VirusList released information about the[intlink id=”3655″ type=”post”] Justse.Ru Video[/intlink] that people were being warned about last weekend.

It seems that it wasn’t a Cross Site Scripting but an PDF exploit that was [intlink id=”3114″ type=”post”]used to install Scareware[/intlink] but Virus List says it as a Fraudware.

[ad]It looks like they were trying to get people to buy [intlink id=”3607″ type=”post”]fake Antivirus[/intlink] software called “System Security”.    It looks like there was a silent download of the PDF and it tried various exploits to get this software installed.

Virus Total has stated that this looks to be the first time, in which one criminal group is looking at making money off of twitter and Facebook.   This could be the beginning of the onslaught of these types of things to continue in the next few months to years.

That is why it is so important to have an [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]Anti-virus software and a good firewall[/intlink] to prevent this sort of thing from happening.  It is important to note to all who have a twitter account that you will need to start being more cautious when it comes to videos being put on twitter.  You May never see another video virus like this or you could see a dozen in one day it depends on how people react to this and try to prevent it in the future.   If you think you have the scareware installed that is System Security.   I have found the Removal instrtuctions for people who want to get it off your system.

Juste Goes from Twitter to Facebook

Paul

According to Twitter Spam report:

“Best video” not so great — we’re working on it.
No matter how good that “best video” looks, don’t go to any juste.ru domains. We’re aware of the situation and are working on it.

[ad]Some sources have started to report this and how it was being sent out. It seems to be some kind of Virus that is taking control of your Twitter account. Althought this is not unusal, what is Unusual is that some have reported this jumping from Twitter to Facebook.

Juste.Ru seems to have been designed for both platforms and someone must of been logged into both to make this happen.   If you’ve gotten this message on Facebook you should just delete it and tell the person who sent it they need to do a [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]system check[/intlink].   Also if you have been hit by this virus, first thing to do is clean your system before you do anything else.   Then reset your password, this way you won’t be giving the virus access to the new password.

I talked about where you need to go tor[intlink id=”3599″ type=”post”] reset your password,[/intlink] and it isn’t to hard to do but in case your need to know just check out the other post about it.  You should always have an[intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”] antivirus and Firewall[/intlink] this might of prevented this.