drifterlee opened this issue on Jan 19, 2008 · 43 posts
drifterlee posted Sat, 19 January 2008 at 3:04 PM
Thought everyone should know about a nasty virus in the Poser freebies section. I am sure the person who posted the freebie is not aware of it and I emailed them. The virus is not on their site, but on a link to free Aiko jeans. AVG Grisoft virus scanner says the site is putting a virus in Internet Explorer's temp file. The freebie is the sewing machine http://www.technowomb.com/poser/msdarr/page2.html and that site is okay, but the link on page 2 to the free Aiko jeans has a virus on its page. DO NOT CLICK on that link. The site with the virus is the finalware.tv site. I was downloading other freebies two days ago from Poser sites in Japan that I did not know of - got there through links so I don't know which site it was - and I got a horrible virus that my virus scanner did not catch until it was too late. The virus disabled my virus scanner, Zone Alarm, Spybot Search and Destroy and a bunch of windows files immediately. I now have to reformat my hard drive which is not easy because I put most of my new PC together myself and have to reinstall everything - no "quick restore" disk. I am just sick about this because who ever is out there putting viruses in freebies and links should be boiled in oil. I have so much to do and now I get a virus. So be careful downloading from sites you don't know about. This virus is as bad as the old winpollipo32 virus and works very fast. Mac users probably don't have to worry about it. This virus I got is not detectable by your virus scanner or at least not AVG's. Don't want to scare people but this is a real nasty one, so be careful downloading.