VirusBurst- A malicious spyware program.

[Chewy]

you aren't charging yourself by the hour either, chaulk it all up to educational expenses

[Gary D]

you aren't charging yourself by the hour either, chaulk it all up to educational expenses

But I wish my wife was paying me!

[discman]

anyone noticed the dodgy looking program on the home page here.offering to scan your computer.and screensavers and that sort of thing.

[coodbe]

gary

just to be sure try one of these, preferably 2

http://www.anti-trojan-software-reviews.com/

with some of these trojans I have had to do an update to the program,
disconnect from the internet and reboot into safe mode to kill the core downloader part

one nasty would not let me disconnect from the internet

Can any of those be used in addition to NcAfee VirusScan?

This one interested me:

http://www.anti-trojan-software-reviews.com/review-trojan-hunter.htm

[codajohn]

@Gary D what was the site and program this trojan came from?

[anonymez]

@Gary D what was the site and program this trojan came from?

i'd like to know too

[Gary D]

Let me just say it was less than reputable site. I thought I was clicking a download mpg file when a warning popped up that I did not have the right codec to play that 20 second "Video".

I thought I was downloading a codec file when it dropped all this into my computer. Surfer beware!

[Chewy]

they lied

[anonymez]

i'd be worried if a site knew what codecs i had on my system

[jm1647]

BTW It was PA2004 that had posted the link to unlocker. Here is the original post: http://forum.digital-digest.com/show...992#post424992

I'm not saying I was the first but I beat PA by about 10 months ;beer:

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showpost.php?p=298618&postcount=6

[Gary D]

I rescanned my computer last night and again today, the results were...
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all clear!!! Interesting results though!

Ewido anti-spyware and Trojan Hunter found the most originally (after Ad Aware and SpyBot had ranned on Friday) ! Even though not free, I am happy with those results. In November when my CPU hog No-ortons expires, out it goes for something with a smaller CPU footprint. Both Ewido and Trojan Hunter have wonderful updating systems. I will leave them on until they free test period expires!

Ad Aware I am not happy with and Spybot is better than Ad Aware. But it shows that two (or three) will miss some viruses, a fourth will find.

BTW: A very good learning experience Chewy! Thank you!

Gary

[Chewy]

vigilance and safe hex

[soup]

The free part never runs out on Ewido, you just lose a couple of things. You can still scan & update manually.

[Gary D]

My Sunday morning scan results!!

Update:

Norton's found nothing!

Trojan Hunter found nothing!

Ewido found this in my registry:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ShellServiceObjectDelayLoad\\gorgonian -> Adware.VirusBurst : Cleaned with backup (quarantined).

It looks like this virus has a delayed loader. Should be fun to find again. I will probably have to run RootKit detector now as this has showed up!

Any thoughts Chewy??

[Chewy]

well is it quarantined?

not sure what it means? unless one of your programs isolated it, the problem with trojans is they can't hardly be detected except heuristically(from their behavior)