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COMPUTER " TROJAN:Win32/Alureon.A"; or, The ROOTKIT MALWARE You Don't Even Know You Have.
http://www.microsoft.com/security ^ | Updated: Dec 16, 2009 | Microsoft

Posted on 04/07/2010 1:22:51 AM PDT by Yosemitest

Microsoft MalWare Protection Center has more info.

(Excerpt) Read more at microsoft.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alureona; computer; malware; microsofttax; trojan; virus
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To: HiTech RedNeck

There is a version of Visual Studio that is free. I know of no license restrictions on software from it and I cannot imagine how it could even be enforced. I can code in notepad and in VS and they compile the same.


81 posted on 04/07/2010 9:52:45 AM PDT by wireplay
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To: Yosemitest

Bump for later dissection at home. Cool genealogy lesson on XP.


82 posted on 04/07/2010 9:56:06 AM PDT by ssaftler (America feared a third "W" term, and got a second "Jimmuh" term instead.)
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To: McGruff

Of course, as a developer, I can have a button that says Cancel that actually is an Ok button. Nothing can stop me from being malicious and redirecting you and there is no prevention.


83 posted on 04/07/2010 9:58:50 AM PDT by wireplay
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To: driftdiver
Yeah get a mac and get an OS from the 70s

Windows NT is based on VMS, from the 70s, the API having its origins in 16-bit Windows from the 80s. OS X is based on FreeBSD from the 90s, which is based on 386BSD from the 90s, based on BSD, and then UNIX from the 70s. But that's on one lineage for the user space, file system and network. The kernel is MIT Mach from the 80s, and the API and other technologies are from NeXT in the 80s.

84 posted on 04/07/2010 10:09:35 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: wizwor

It’s all coincidence.


85 posted on 04/07/2010 10:11:03 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Spaulding

On a previous visit to the MIL I put on anti-spyware and anti-virus. On the most recent visit I spent most of my Easter day getting two trojans and other assorted nasties off her machine.

It would be easier jut to get her a Mac.


86 posted on 04/07/2010 10:13:40 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Read Malware Protection Center Technical Information (Analysis):

I don't know about it attacking Windows 7, so you'll have to research that question.

87 posted on 04/07/2010 10:30:37 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: chilltherats
"Spyware Terminator detected it,
and it's attempt to remove it wasn't successful."

I'd get either Spyware Terminator or Microsoft Security Essentials.


88 posted on 04/07/2010 10:41:29 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: ErnBatavia
"CCleaner ... Do you have any idea what 'checkbox' I should uncheck?"

Open CCleaner.

Then click Run Cleaner on the lower right side.
89 posted on 04/07/2010 10:51:56 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: weef

Thank you for noticing.


90 posted on 04/07/2010 10:52:43 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: ssaftler
Take a look at Windows XP Cleaning Procedure.
91 posted on 04/07/2010 10:55:07 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: Yosemitest

bookmark


92 posted on 04/07/2010 11:00:17 AM PDT by LucyJo
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To: wireplay
I probably got the malware by If you really want to know,
93 posted on 04/07/2010 11:00:37 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: taxcontrol; Swordmaker

Ditto that, nor my Macs.


94 posted on 04/07/2010 11:05:34 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: chilltherats
"Can’t I just look for a certain file rather than downloading a scanner?"

I don't think so.

In short, the malware rewrites one of your files, disguising itself, so that you can't see it, just by file name.
95 posted on 04/07/2010 11:23:49 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: erman
Firefox ...

Take a read (all seven pages) of

and then take a look at Opera 10.51 Web Browser for Windows
96 posted on 04/07/2010 11:33:54 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: Yosemitest

My gosh! I just bought a Dell Mini 10, with windows 7 starter (my first windows purchase since win2k). If it ever gets to that point, I think I’d just take it out back and shoot it, and go buy another one.


97 posted on 04/07/2010 11:37:16 AM PDT by shorty_harris
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To: erman
P.S. They do have other versions of Opera for Mac/Linux.
98 posted on 04/07/2010 11:38:02 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: antiRepublicrat

hogwash, the genesis of the mac OS is from the 60s, just as the windows 7 OS had it infancy during the same period.


99 posted on 04/07/2010 12:22:44 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver
hogwash, the genesis of the mac OS is from the 60s, just as the windows 7 OS had it infancy during the same period.

The genesis of a part of OS X is from the UNIX of the 70s, unless you want to count Multics from the 60s. VMS, the Windows 7 genesis, was developed in the 70s for the DEC VAX computer. I don't know that VMS is based on anything earlier.

100 posted on 04/07/2010 12:35:59 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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