pbguy1211 Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 Am I the only one getting trojan horses found in my temporary internet files as a result of pop-ups from visiting here? (For those not familiar, a trojan horse is a form of a virus) I really don't want to stop coming here, but I mean seriously. What the F**k?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swphreak Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=124656 Yeah, I got hit with some Adclicker-0 Trojan last night, and it ****ed up Windows Media Player. I had to delete it and redownload WMP and install it. We need an update on the situation. If my computer gets ****ed up because of UGO, I'm gonna be really pissed. I got it cleaned. Apparently, Ad-aware didn't find it, but I downloaded and ran Spybot and it found it. Zed, if you haven't, get SpyBot and run it. Where did you get it at Zed? I get it whenever I goto the GeeBee forums.... It is very annoying. I only get it in GeeBee, and sometimes in aresen. It is getting to be a pain in the ass. DIE UGO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jed Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 To be quite honest, I stopped posting at GeeBee because of that trojan... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 It's in XWA as well. My WebWasher filter ( http://www.webwasher.com/client/download/commercial_use/akzeptiert/windows/index.html?lang=de_EN ) seems to keep it from installing,.. but I'll have to make sure that it's on and active EACH AND EVERYTIME I come to any of these forums from now on. I highly reccomend you all get it at this point. And I won't be able to even browse from a work PC when I get a break for fear of infecting it... Kind of a bummer, to say the very least. Next time some Webmaster tries to make feel guilty for looking at a free site with any ad- or popup-blocking software enabled, I'm gonna tell him just where to shove it. Sorry, bucko, I'm not taking a couple of hours out of my already too busy day to disinfect my PC from your Spy-, Mal-, and just plain ol' Annoy-ware so you can register a couple of more hits to your sleazbo ad counter. Very much not cool. :mad: :mad: :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 Originally posted by edlib It's in XWA as well. My WebWasher filter ( http://www.webwasher.com/client/download/commercial_use/akzeptiert/windows/index.html?lang=de_EN ) seems to keep it from installing,.. but I'll have to make sure that it's on and active EACH AND EVERYTIME I come to any of these forums from now on. I highly reccomend you all get it at this point. And I won't be able to even browse from a work PC when I get a break for fear of infecting it... Kind of a bummer, to say the very least. Next time some Webmaster tries to make feel guilty for looking at a free site with any ad- or popup-blocking software enabled, I'm gonna tell him just where to shove it. Sorry, bucko, I'm not taking a couple of hours out of my already too busy day to disinfect my PC from your Spy-, Mal-, and just plain ol' Annoy-ware so you can register a couple of more hits to your sleazbo ad counter. Very much not cool. :mad: :mad: :mad: Amen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 GAH! It messed up WMP again! Isn't ANYONE reading this that can actually do something? Get a new advertising company! UGO is full of ****tards anyways, first innaproiate banners, not malicious pop-ups...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisC3po Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 I'm sorry about this. UGO promissed they would get rid of those ads. I will be contacting them on Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted April 12, 2004 Share Posted April 12, 2004 Originally posted by ChrisC3po I'm sorry about this. UGO promissed they would get rid of those ads. I will be contacting them on Monday. Thank you, because they are now appearing on the main page too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbguy1211 Posted April 12, 2004 Author Share Posted April 12, 2004 Thank you, to any and everyone trying to rectify the problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted April 12, 2004 Share Posted April 12, 2004 Thanks Chris. Very much appriciated. It does make me wonder about the advertisers behind this... it really seems to go against common-sense to annoy (or in this case really piss-off) the very folks you are trying to advertise to by screwing up thier computers (!?!?!?!?) I've never known that type of tactic make anybody more receptive to a marketing pitch. Kinda like getting people to pay attention to your side-of-highway billboard ad by laying tire-spikes across the road. Not exactly the most thoughtful marketing strategy I've come across... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 *Two weeks later* What the fark? I'm getting web page dialogs in XWA and RSN that positively load my computer with Trojans. Not just one or three Trojans, like in previous weeks, but ten or twenty. What?! Good god, bring back the pornographic ads, at least they don't destroy your computer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 you all better be happy i'm getting a laptop when i get back from bct and ait. i got a load of **** on my computer now, dammit. just what i need before i head off...when i want to communicate w/my friends via internet.....anyways...track down the bastards and pluck their eardrums out w/toothpicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 Originally posted by ZBomber Thank you, because they are now appearing on the main page too. SAME HERE!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 Okay, here's my new problem... Screenie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Fisher Posted May 1, 2004 Share Posted May 1, 2004 Yeah, the good thing is that they havne't been to the Swamp or anything...yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swphreak Posted May 1, 2004 Share Posted May 1, 2004 Nope, I get them at the Swamp, Aresen, and GeeBee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Fisher Posted May 1, 2004 Share Posted May 1, 2004 Hmm.. well I don't. It might be my firewall that stops 'em at the Swamp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swphreak Posted May 1, 2004 Share Posted May 1, 2004 No, I think the ads vary by geographic location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-8252 Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 I'm getting infected pop-ups on the Dark Forces mod forum. I've had to stop going to that forum now. This game is good for taking your anger out: http://www2.b3ta.com/realistic-internet-simulator/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiEND_138 Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 & now their on the KotOR boards as well :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 I would judt like to point out that it's not the advertisers that are putting the trojans on their advertisments, but actually just random hackers and virus creators who wish to distribut their viri by hacking into these ads and putting the trojans there. So it;s not really UGO's fault (as much) although they probably should have just created new freash ads and stopped sending the old ones by now (and probably gotten better security). Ald also, I don't get any trojans, or ads or anything, ever. I'd tell you how, but last time I did that it people just argued with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Mozilla Firefox does work great..... Geez, these viruses aren't really THAT harmful.... don't you think the hackers would wanna cause more destruction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 i'm not a hacker, so I don't know. Could be some kind of time release thing, they put hiddden trojans on our machines (the kind VP's don't detect and we never see) and then on a specific date, thousands of computers wordwide blow up. Or something, I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeskywalker1 Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 Yesterday, I loaded my UserCP up, and I got infected with VBS/Psyme! Your kinda half-way right Joshi in your last post, From McAfee's Website This trojan exploits an unpatched (at the time of this writing) vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability allows for the writing, and overwriting, of local files by exploiting the ADODB.Stream object. There are several variants of this trojan. Therefore this description is design to give an overview of how the trojan works. The trojan exists as VBScript. This script contains instructions to download a remote executable, save it to a specified location on the local disk, and then execute it. Check out more info here, at mcafee's site: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100749 Im not sure if thats what you guys got, but I got that. Luckily enough, within seconds of it downloading itself to my PC, mcafee caught it and I cleaned it, then ran window washer to get rid of all my temp internet files. I thought it was IRC at first... I loaded my user CP and gamesurge at the same time. I never expected a virus/trojan from lucasforums! It downloaded itself.. like... 5 times total before I knew what was happening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 get spyware blaster or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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