Virus or Malware while browsing eBay

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discountmummy wrote: »

Is quidco compatable with firefox does anyone know? and could someone provide me a link to firefox I was a bit confused as it comes up as mozilla is that right?

I use quidco on Firefox without any problems.

Yes it is Mozilla Firefox. You can download it from the likes of http://www.download.com

Percy1983

Or go straight to firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Yep quidco works, everything works.

aliEnRIK

discountmummy wrote: »

Arhhh I too got this on Sunday I was using ebay so all makes sense that it came from there.... went straight through my MSE without any warnings immobilising it, I cut my interent connection and eventually got MSE to work and did a scan which removed the trojan.

The chances your computers free of viruses is slim

id recommend running these and posting a new thread in the TECHIE section

Download MALWAREBYTES (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION')
http://www.filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/
Open malwarebytes and goto UPDATE and click 'check for updates'. After its updated goto SCANNER and click PERFORM QUICK SCAN then click SCAN
Remove everything thats found (needs to be ticked)
Post the COMPLETE log here AFTER youve deleted everything it finds
If anything was found then do the exact same but run a FULL scan


reboot

Download HIJACK THIS (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION')
http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/
Click MAIN MENU then DO A SYSTEM 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)
If you get a message that you cant write to the hosts file then Press the SHIFT key, and whilst holding it RIGHT CLICK and select RUN AS (admin)

mobile48

News update here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12608651

Statement from unanimis here:

http://www.unanimis.co.uk/regarding-malware-issue-2/

Timescales in links do not correspond to what I saw.

Additional reading:

http://tamebay.com/2011/03/virus-ads-appeared-on-ebay-over-the-weekend.html
http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/london-stock-exchange-site-flagged-for-serving-malware-22376

A very interesting article from just a few days before this happened:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/220630/why_trustworthy_sites_can_no_longer_be_trusted.html

mobile48

Looks like ebay will be making an announcement shortly - copy of what it will be here (scroll down a bit to pink post):

http://community.ebay.co.uk/topic/Seller-Central/Virus-Ebay-Going/2000035380?start=152

Also if you scroll down some more there is a very interesting copy of an email cut and pasted from someone called David Nelson with information on time scales - I commented on this area in my previous post above.

fortyaday

Hi all,Can anyone tell me if it's safe to log in to ebay site now or is it still dodgy.I have had this virus removed and don't want it again,cost me £60.Also is there a phone No. for ebay customer services I'd like to ring them but don't want to log in as yet.Info would be appreciated.

aliEnRIK

Ebay dont use the company anymore so should be perfectly safe

mobile48

Following article contains information I not seen reported previously that the attacks worked due to out of date copies of Adobe Reader and Java with security flaws.

http://www.spamfighter.com/Malvertising-Campaign-Strikes-Well-Known-Websites-15887-News.htm