Posted on 11/08/2009 1:59:37 PM PST by decimon
Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
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Hot flash... this has been around a long time. It is particularly common in places like Yahoo Messenger, where messages can be sent to thousands of subscribers simultaneously.
Usully with bait like "Great ______" (fill in the blank.)
They are usually a zip file with 0 files.
Idiots who open these are almost sure to do it just once.
Moral of the story: if you don't know the sender, Don't open it!
You’re right. WEP is minimal security.
more OH NO news
I don't. But it would take just that one lapse of thought.
Any idea what this is?
winupd64x.exe
It keeps popping up for me to run program. I don’t know enough about these thing and am afraid to do so but maybe it’s just another update.
“I don’t. But it would take just that one lapse of thought. “
There’s no room for innocent mistakes in our legal system anymore.
Did you see the discussion on FR about the Grandma in Missouri who bought one too many packages of sudafed and wound up in jail? The law presumes that anyone who buys too much is automatically guilty of making meth. Even though she was a law-abiding person and they found no meth lab in her home or anything the prosecutor still prosecuted her to the fullest extent of the law. And proudly, I might add.
Not recommending you use their clean up process, but here http://www.prevx.com/filenames/X678219248043914988-X1/WINUDP64.EXE.html is an explanation of the virus.
NOTE. You mentioned winupd64.exe which is slightly different.
winupd64x.exe
A web search indicates it's a virus.
Wow! Thanks a million. It came up telling me there were all these viruses but I ran a scan with my system and said I was clean. Thank goodness I didn’t install it!! I wonder how I can get rid of the thing that pops on every time I turn on my pc.
Did you see the discussion on FR about the Grandma in Missouri who bought one too many packages of sudafed and wound up in jail?
No, but you summed it up well. That prosecutor deserves to be in prison.
You're already infected. I forget the name of it but Microsoft has a good program to rid you of malware.
“If I was an evil kid in school these days, all I would have to do is wait for the teacher to leave his computer unattended for a moment and point his browser to a porn site (let a few pics download, then close the browser)... then make an anonymous call to the cops.”
If the rumors I have been hearing from several sources are true, some little bastard already did that in our school district. Except for the call the cops part. Blew the teach into the administration. We lost a good teacher and a great asset thanks to that crap. Last I heard he was still employing a lawyer to fight back.
Thanks!! I will run a scan and hope that gets rid of it!!
The Microsoft scan is here: http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/center/howsafe.htm
That rid me of something regular anti-virus software didn’t detect.
Thanks very much!! Will do!!
me too. a lot of virus programs just don’t see some of these exe files as viruses
Use WPA, not WEP. It's much more secure.
The neighborhood young’uns can put all kinds of stuff on your drive.
Why bother? In order to do that, they have to defeat your computer's security. If they're on your network, it's simpler just to email a death threat from your IP address to the proper destination. Then they can sit back and watch the vehicles move into place around your house.
I think that some of these viruses, trojans, whatever are able to trick any anti-virus software resident at the time of infection. The Microsoft scan comes after the fact. I think that's a factor.
Gotta love these alarming AP virus articles that make no mention of the name of the actual virus/worm/trojan that is the culprit. Red alert! A virus may be storing child porn on your computer! We won’t tell you what the virus is called or how to get rid of it, but you should be scared!
Searches of F-Prot, McAfee and Symantec virus databases for “child porn,” “child pornography,” “pedophilia” and the like came up empty. Hmmm...Would be nice to know exactly what threat we’re talking about here, but I guess I’m expecting too much from the AP.
Here is what you apparently have: A fake antivirus program called “Antivirus.”
Manual steps to get rid of it are here:
http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-antivirus.html
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