tempnexus
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join:1999-08-11
Boston, MA | reply to moonpuppy
Re: Vundo / Antispyware xp 2008
IF you scroll down 7 posts you will find this:
»Anatomy of a Malware Scam: XP Antivirus 2008
thanks for reading |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Did a search for it and I must have missed it.
The interesting thing to me is how this scam works over many countries. Server in Singappore, bank in Barbados, registry in the Ukraine, etc.
Wonder why certain things like cancelling the domain registration, shutting down the account on the server or cealing with the bank in question can't be done to deal with these idiots. |
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roc5955
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join:2005-11-26
Rosendale, NY
 ·RoadRunner Cable
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This is one of the best reads I have seen on the Register in a long time. It gives you real insight as to the evil genius of the people who came up with this malware scam.
I have seen this, and the other strains of this malware here at work about 30 times in the past 3 months. This is even after we sent out an e-mail telling the users to not click, or open stuff that they don't know where it is coming from.
One person even gave them the credit card info, and what did he get? More malware. His PC was so infected, that I had to wipe it. After several attempts to clean using many types of software, the darn thing kept getting re-infected. I used Malwarebytes Anti-malware, McAffee AV, Hijack This!, Adaware, Spybot S & D, and others. Finally, I gave up, and just reloaded the image of the thing, that we create whenever we deploy a new PC.
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