Computer Related > Spoof Infection Alert	Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Perky Penguin	Replies: 28

New Tue 19 Apr 11 14:33   Spoof Infection Alert - Perky Penguin

Ealier today I got a pop-up in my toolbar saying that my computer was infected and gave a list of likely looking trojans and viruses, listed supplied by a programme involving a site called MS. Trying to sound like MiscroSoft? They wanted to charge me £35 for a year's use of the programme. I ignored this generous offer and did a full scan using my Zone Alarm scanner which took 1 hr 45, checked 140,000 files and found NO infections of any sort. Have any of you had these scans, fake results and an offer to fix them for cash? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 14:51   Spoof Infection Alert - rtj70

My mother in law got a pop up message last week about some sort of infection but since I didn't see it I don't know if it was for real or a spoof alert. I need to get hold of the laptop and check it out. What site were you on when the alert appeared? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 16:07   Spoof Infection Alert - Perky Penguin

Something routine like this or booking train times - not www.bigandbouncy.com - much beloved by Adrian Mole you may recall? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 18:26   Spoof Infection Alert - rtj70

Ta. I have the laptop now to check out. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 19:12   Spoof Infection Alert - RattleandSmoke

Just bought a new program called Super Anti Spyware, it cost me £65 for the technicians licence but if its a personal laptop you can download it for free so might be worth downloading the portable version and doing a scan with that. It has better detection than any other anti malware program I have used. It is probabbly just a spoof advert rather than anything cynical but its well worth checking to make sure there is no malware causing the pop ups. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Tue 19 Apr 11 19:45   Spoof Infection Alert - rtj70

I'll check it out Rattle. A quick scan with MSE found nothing. Then I used TrendMicro's online scan which found nothing. There aren't huge numbers of files - it's a laptop belonging to someone in their 70s. Best safe than sorry. They won't visit dodgy sites either. But I see MSE is not the latest version anymore and the upgrade is failing.... Taking the opportunity to install and test LogMeIn on it too. If I'd been able to see the error last week it would have been useful. And some issues with the laptop that needed 10 seconds to fix meant I had to go round.... once tried telling her what to do as in click on this and then.... she kept reading out everything on screen when I knew what it would say. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 19:59   Spoof Infection Alert - RattleandSmoke

Really hate that. I had to talk one of my mums friends through setting up their new router on the phone once, of course remote access won't work through a lot of that process. It took me over an hour. It would have been quicker just to drive to flipping Woodly and done it. I've seen a few of these pop ups on machines on the past with no signs of any malware infections, seems to be common on 64-bit versions of windows. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 20:52   Spoof Infection Alert - Perky Penguin

I have downloaded the superantispyware programme which R&S mnetioned and it has so far found 267 adware cookies on my computer, and is still scanning! I understand that they don't cause trouble and they aren't the sort of thing that Zone Alarm finds anyway Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 22:02   Spoof Infection Alert - RattleandSmoke

That is what is good for that sort of thing, you can use something like CC cleaner or just delete the cookies manually but I don't like doing that because customers start complaining websites no longer keep them logged in etc. It just depends on the person really. What I like about it is the portable version will run on very infected machines with no internet access (e.g in safe mode) and that the portable version has up to date definitions. As with any of those programs it is just a tool and it will never find everything. I have five licence codes too which I hope I can sell to some of my small business clients. They gave me them free with the technicians licence I bought. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Tue 19 Apr 11 22:39   Spoof Infection Alert - Bellboy

good post Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 23:16   Spoof Infection Alert - rtj70

Nothing on this laptop - I didn't think it would have a virus as it has MSE and auto updates. But at least I've had the chance to install and check LogMeIn on it. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 08:13   Spoof Infection Alert - Dog

>>Just bought a new program called Super Anti Spyware<< Thanx for that - I've just quarantined 53 thingies! Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 08:20   Spoof Infection Alert - AnotherJohnH

Dog >> Thanx for that - I've just quarantined 53 thingies! Fleas? :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 10:00   Spoof Infection Alert - Dog

>>Fleas? :-)<< Dunno about flees John, but there are emmetts are a'plenty down ere with all this weather! (Emmetts ~ Cornish 4 ants) Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Apr 11 15:14   Spoof Infection Alert - Clk Sec

>>Just bought a new program called Super Anti Spyware Thanks, Rattle. Five items quarantined. Pat on back awarded! Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Apr 11 15:16   Spoof Infection Alert - Zero

And exactly what problems were they causing you? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Apr 11 15:34   Spoof Infection Alert - Clk Sec

How long have you got? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Apr 11 16:38   Spoof Infection Alert - Pat

In less than a fortnight you'll be complaining that the PC is slow. Super antispyware has that effect. Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Apr 11 16:53   Spoof Infection Alert - Clk Sec

If that is the case it will be removed. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Apr 11 17:10   Spoof Infection Alert - RattleandSmoke

It doesn't run in the background, you want the portable version so you just run it as when when you see fit. It also dosn't use much resources either. The free version has no active scanning so it won't slow your computer down at all. Not sold any of the paid versions yet but I've only had the licences for a few weeks. I am sure I will be able to sell them its just hard as everybody knows (or things wrongly) security software is free - it is not it is just some packages offer a free version for home use. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Apr 11 17:15   Spoof Infection Alert - Clk Sec

Thanks again, Rattle. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Apr 11 17:19   Spoof Infection Alert - Zero

Its only 5 problems remember. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Apr 11 17:21   Spoof Infection Alert - Clk Sec

Spot on. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 09:33   Spoof Infection Alert - Victorbox

A retired friend 'phoned me this week because he had taken a call from a firm alleging they knew his computer was infected and offering to sell him some anti-virus to fix it. He allowed them remote access to his Windows 7 PC (!!!) whereupon they showed him the Windows Event Log which had lots of yellow and red icons in it - which it would in any normal uninfected PC. They convinced him that each red icon was a virus and conned him out of £40 and got his credit card details at the same time. They also must have scanned his computer for other financial details and passwords as an attempt to use a long unused John Lewis credit card was made that day. He now has lots of bank and credit card details to change! Last edited by: Victorbox on Wed 20 Apr 11 at 09:34 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 12:17   Spoof Infection Alert - Hard Cheese

>>I ignored this generous offer and did a full scan using my Zone Alarm scanner which took 1 hr 45, checked 140,000 files and found NO infections of any sort. Have any of you had these scans, fake results and an offer to fix them for cash? >> We had this on one of the kids PC's it was called MS something or other, it got through though a scan with Kaspersky IS (which in the meantime had updated its virus definitions) found it and quarantined it. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 12:24   Spoof Infection Alert - Zero

>> Have any of you had these scans, fake results and an offer to fix them >> for cash? >> Its not a scan, its a cleverly designed regular pop up web page that looks like its done a scan. It hasn't done anything of the sort. Its just a web page, nothing more sinister than that. Last edited by: Zero on Wed 20 Apr 11 at 12:25 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 12:37   Spoof Infection Alert - Hard Cheese

>> >> Its not a scan, its a cleverly designed regular pop up web page that looks >> like its done a scan. It hasn't done anything of the sort. Its just a >> web page, nothing more sinister than that. >> No, the one we had was a trojan, it buried itself into the PC though only infected one user, the user that was using it when the accessed the website that caused the infection. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Apr 11 12:51   Spoof Infection Alert - RattleandSmoke

You need to be more specific about what did the scan. There are now so many fakes about I am shocked how many I have seen and people don't realise its fake. Seemed to have calmed down a bit lately though. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Apr 11 14:27   Spoof Infection Alert - Zero

> >> No, yes >>the one we had was a trojan, it buried itself into the PC though >> only infected one user, the user that was using it when the accessed the website >> that caused the infection. wasn't talking about yours, but the OP. If it only affected one user it wasn't that deep. Last edited by: Zero on Thu 21 Apr 11 at 14:28 Reply to this message | Report message