A new type of virus

[Pablo]

This is very similar to my story, but I never downloaded their crap. See my thread. No software ever actually found and deleted my garbage.

The "company", PCSecurityShield is on this BAD list:

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm

So thanks for the link.

It seems to be expanding at a huge rate. Really ****** me off that people do this and it is ILLEGAL!

 

[Bob Woods]

You don't have the down load it, it will find you via a picture file or even an email from a trusted source.

 

[Pablo]

I know you don't have to download the virus, I meant I didn't "fall sucker" and download the supposed fix as happened to you.

 

[Bob Woods]

The first infection I think occurs as a virus named Zlob, the first hint you are infected may be that system restore doesn't function.

 

[simple_gifts]

http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-022.htm

This looks interesting; Leo speculates the WMF backdoor was intentionally programmed.

 

[Pablo]

sick bag stuff

I never saw a hint of Zlob. Mine when sluggish, then those messages started popping.

 

[Bob Woods]

I followed a link at download.com that took me to
www.tuneuppros.com while reading the page a ballon popped up offering me live chat to fix my spyware infected system. This site too has a partnership agreement to sell more crap. I used ALT/F4 to close the window and the site closed along with it. I later ran Ewido and it found a bug called "liveperson". Is there nothing safe?

 

[T-Keith]

Again, I've said it before, because of the rampant use of "spyware removers" as spyware infectors, I'll only trust the ones who have been around for a while and are trusted: Spybot and Ad-aware. Get them from the makers websites or download.com to be sure.

 

[Bob Woods]

Ad-aware did not find and clean spywarestrike but ewido did.