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Our forum users highlight viral extortion scheme
(old news - 09:06AM Wednesday Mar 05 2008)
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The Washington Post blog gives a well-deserved back-pat to the very knowledgeable folks in our Security forum, who've been helping people remove the MonaRonaDona virus for the last few days. This one's a bit interesting: the virus in question makes as much noise as possible, embedding its name in every IE window -- making sure users do a Google search for removal. The top search result (or it used to be until our users got involved) was for a $39.90 piece of software that will only remove MonaRonaDona -- aka "extortionware."

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Jeffrey
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Always nice to be mentioned in major papers

It would have been great if they named the virus removal application "Roseanne Roseannadanna". That would have made me chuckle. "Download Roseanne Roseannadanna to remove the MonaRonaDona" virus.

Kudos to the people in the forum there for the continued help with all they do.

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Re: Always nice to be mentioned in major papers

said by Jeffrey See Profile :

Kudos to the people in the forum there for the continued help with all they do.
Yes nice work!!
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Re: Always nice to be mentioned in major papers

agreed, bravo

pnh102
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Nail the Perps

So how hard is it to track down who the makers of "Unigray Antivirus" are?

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Re: Nail the Perps

said by pnh102 See Profile :

So how hard is it to track down who the makers of "Unigray Antivirus" are?
Here? »youtube.com/user/AHSTEPP1
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TJ19971
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Congratulations!

Well deserved recognition for all the great help the folks in the security forum provide.
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MagMan
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Re: Congratulations!

Yes keep up the good work it is nice to know you have good people to turn to when things go wrong.

Thank You.
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Major props to the all the folks lending their expertise in the security forum!!

dadkins
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That's Right!

DSLReports and the good people here kicking ass once again!

Remember it!
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Re: That's Right!

You'd think we could pick a better name for these virii though.

But, seriously, as others have said, major props to the Security forum crew for getting things done.

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said by dadkins See Profile :

DSLReports and the good people here kicking ass once again!

Remember it!
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Excellent work. Kudos to all the hard working people in the Security Forum. On a side note, has anyone figured out how this extortion ware infected systems?
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Dadkins could not have said it better! Another reason why this is one of the best sites for help.

Smith6612
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Congrats...

To Broadband Reports! I wonder if this is that one virus I've been having to clean out of everyone's comps lately. I'll have to see.

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I am SO glad that.......

We dumped Winblows and got a Mac!!!
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Re: I am SO glad that.......

SO what does this virus do?

David
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I will

Send this over to the at&t tech teams to keep an eye out for this one in case they get calls.

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Huzzah!

And THIS is why I come to this excellent site.

Well, this, and to see how many times Dadkins and I can agree with each other and still creep each other out.

But mostly this.



Well done, all!
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monaronadona

Imagine to my shock when I logged on today to find this virus on my pc. First of all, why on gods green earth would it come after my PC? I'm a native American indian and of foreign origin, not in any type of negative following against the up holding the rights of others. Human rights activist they say? They want to look at who they are worming before they send stuff like this. I find it insulting and honestly could careless as this pc is only for browsing anyway. But as they say, what goes around comes around and in this case hopefully back to the hacker who sent it to me.
competence

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>>>ROFL @ THIS

i work for the geeksquad and a guy brought his computer in and had this virus. His Desktop wall paper was "hi my name is MonaRonaDona blah blah blah" i was laughing historically.
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