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Subject: OT but virus alert..is this a new one.

chohole opened this issue on Feb 26, 2002 · 9 posts
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chohole ( ) posted Tue, 26 February 2002 at 2:28 AM · edited Sat, 09 November 2024 at 8:40 AM

Was searching the net to get updated drivers for my old camera when up popped some popups. One of these started to put a virus on my PC. Fortunately my on line virus checker jumped in and deleted the file immiediately, so not sure which pop up did it. Is this a new thing viruses in pop up ads?

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."


markdotcom ( ) posted Tue, 26 February 2002 at 3:51 AM

Okay, that's pretty scary. Are you sure the virus scan didn't just pick up on some "harmless" spyware? I haven't heard about this yet. There are some Internet Explorer security holes that have been corrected recently (versions 5.5 and 6.0, which comes stock with XP, are affected). If you're running an unpatched browser of any type, you might be susceptable to viruses-by-pop-up.

leather-guy ( ) posted Tue, 26 February 2002 at 3:56 AM
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Steve Gibson, at GRC.COM has developed uilities to help plug some known XP holes, and has some great online tests to analyze possible weak points in your configuration.

SAMS3D ( ) posted Tue, 26 February 2002 at 4:58 AM

Yes, leather-guy is right, I used GRC utilities and they worked great. Sharen

geep ( ) posted Tue, 26 February 2002 at 7:59 AM

Don't go on the net without it! ;=]

Remember ... "With Poser, all things are possible, and poseable!"


cheers,

dr geep ... :o]

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chohole ( ) posted Tue, 26 February 2002 at 9:14 AM

I'm running win2k and ie5, not 5.5 As I said Mcafee jumped on it straight away,I run the on line version, and I ran a full scan later. My teccie was working on the machine at the time, not me.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."


Jcleaver ( ) posted Tue, 26 February 2002 at 10:25 AM

Yes, you can get a virus from Pop-ups. If you have a decent anti-virus software, it shouldn't be too much of a problem. They will normally catch them before any damage is done. Just be sure to have updated pattern files at all times.


LeeEvans ( ) posted Tue, 26 February 2002 at 1:04 PM

I have Windows ME, is there a version of this "software" or whatever that will work for me? (I also have seen a program called "Pop-Up Killer" that automatically "kills" new Pop-Ups)... Hope that tid bit helps... :P Lee

geoegress ( ) posted Tue, 26 February 2002 at 8:28 PM

Attached Link: http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_index.htm

free antivirus software with free updates- way excellant

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