Bad Virus from DigitalSpy website, Warning,,

nuttywoman

My laptop got hit with it this afternoon,:mad: i had to shut down quick and when i tried to boot up again all i get is rows of data going down the screen.
I`ve just been on DS and others have been hit with it as well, since last night, so beware! :eek: Seems like the virus has come from one of the ads.

aliEnRIK

Just been on main homepage and the only thing is some survey site?
Or do you mean further into the site?
Is your computer clean now?

Surfing_spaniel

I got this last night, I was following Britains got talent on the forum when suddenly a page wouldn't load & then Zone Alarm told me it had quarantined a high risk clicker trojan:eek: It sent me to a Myspace page.

zax47

It was an infected advert (damn you selling out DS!), no problems now.

Update your spyware software (spybot etc.), do a scan and remove the trojan.

artbaron

Digital Spy, at the time of writing, has a couple of these...

http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/attacksignatures/detail.jsp?asid=50118

nuttywoman

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Just been on main homepage and the only thing is some survey site?
Or do you mean further into the site?
Is your computer clean now?

Hubby got my laptop working again and i`ve done a virus scan , it seems to be ok now

LeeSouthEast

Another perfectly good example of why not to use Internet Explorer.

If you MUST use IE, don't want to change, or anything else, I strongly recommend running it in a sandbox, which can be done for free (with a little fiddling) using Sandboxie. I used it for 20 minutes and bought a license. It's great.

aliEnRIK

nuttywoman wrote: »

Hubby got my laptop working again and i`ve done a virus scan , it seems to be ok now

Entirely upto you but id double check if I were you ~
Download MALWAREBYTES (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD NOW')
http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html
UPDATE and FULL SCAN
Post the log here AFTER youve deleted everything it finds


reboot

Download HIJACK THIS (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION')
http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/
Click DO A SCAN AND SAVE A LOGFILE (Takes seconds) then post the log so we can see whats running
(do NOT do anything else with Hijack but scan and post the FULL log)

Strider590

Firefox > Internet Explorer

People only seem to use IE because its familiar. But conversely most virus's are written to attack Microsoft products......

aliEnRIK

Strider590 wrote: »

Firefox > Internet Explorer

People only seem to use IE because its familiar. But conversely most virus's are written to attack Microsoft products......

I half disagree with that. Firefox by itself would almost certainly have allowed the computer to be infected too. Firefox with NOSCRIPT would have stopped it in its tracks though

mr_fishbulb

LeeSouthEast wrote: »

If you MUST use IE, don't want to change, or anything else, I strongly recommend running it in a sandbox, which can be done for free (with a little fiddling) using Sandboxie. I used it for 20 minutes and bought a license. It's great.

It's a great piece of software. My girlfriend hates using firefox with noscript so I set her up with IE in sandboxie.