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Answer» This is a message to everyone, to watch out for page redirects on google...I was searching for some info on a local air cadet squadron, I clicked a link hoping it had valuable information (hxxp://chavrie.com/include/page.php?p=1126980&f=56 WARNING: EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITE! GO AT OWN RISK!) and it brought me to, yet another Online XP scanner website...
I am telling you this as an ex-victim of this site's viruses. It will lagg your computer to the point of crashing. Less than every 10 minutes, it brings errors saying that you've been infected, clicking the alert at all (even clicking the X button) will bring you to their website, to SLOW down your computer even farther, and pester you into buying the full version of a fake XP scanner, for $50 USD. (I never had the free version in the first place)
Be aware, if you are going to click the link above, make sure to add it to your restricted section, and enable every security feature on your firewall for protection. This virus is like head lice in the middle ages, comes in quickly, spreads fast and is horrible to remove. It manages to embed itself within system restore and explorer.exe, so no matter how many times you remove it with your anti-virus system, it keeps coming back.
This is not to be trifled with. More and more seemingly legitimate sites are popping up, implanting viruses on your computer, urging you to buy the upgraded version of some "anti-virus" software to "remove" the viruses, just to get another virus, and more messages telling you to get the "Ultimate" virus removal tool...
I speak of this from past experience.
Link Disabled - EFI went there and nothing happened.
I've gotten them a few times; only took a few minutes writing down process names and then a drop to recovery console to fix it.
But I remember my first experience with "SpywareAxe" or something. ahh, I was new to XP, so none of my win98 experience at removing malware was valid. didn't KNOW about RC, and couldn't get into "DOS" mode.
I did get rid of it though.
Are you using Internet Explorer, Perchance?
Quote from: BC_Programmer on January 13, 2009, 06:23:59 PM I went there and nothing happened.
I've gotten them a few times; only took a few minutes writing down process names and then a drop to recovery console to fix it.
But I remember my first experience with "SpywareAxe" or something. ahh, I was new to XP, so none of my win98 experience at removing malware was valid. didn't know about RC, and couldn't get into "DOS" mode.
I did get rid of it though.
Are you using Internet Explorer, Perchance?
Currently no. After I heard that there is a major security FLAW, I went to FireFox. I did when I got the virus, although I'm not sure about SpywareAxe, I got Trojan.Vundoo or something like that...IMO the "major security flaw" is that MS didn't surround the execution of ActiveX controls in tight security measures and some form of sandboxing.
ActiveX is great for applications, but for web programs/browsers it's a completely stupid application of the technology.For some reason not all hijacked sites "attack" every visitor. We were investigating one and it only launched (antivirus 2009) on 2 of us. Me being one, but I was smart ENOUGH to open the link while Sandboxed.
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