Category: internet safety

My clean pc

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You will not see me going to that website.
I know better.
Anyone notice that the “Stop Sign” commercials have stopped?
And then replaced with that veri what ever?
My personal computer will not have my clean pc installed on it.
No magic elixir. You can’t rub oil on your head and make your friends any smarter. and yes, you can install a program and have it check for specific command lines or executables to be on your computer, but will not check to see if the command line is correct, or if the executable runs the proper process.
Your safest bet is taking your computer to a proper technician, to get a proper diagnosis of your computer and a correct solution to ensure that your computer will be repaired correctly if needed, at it wont cost you every month.

XP Antivirus 2012 – Scam

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Well a technician at the office got the virus “XP Antivirus 2012” for me to remove from his hp mini.
steady pop ups. No executable files would run.

To fix your .exe executable files to work again, you need to edit your registry and change one insert to say exefile
open regedit by right clicking the file in your windows folder, select RUN AS, uncheck the box that says “protect my computer and data from….” and then click ok. The regedit.exe will open
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
Scroll down till you find the folder icon labeled “EXE”
look for (Default). Right click it and select “modify”. a text box will pop up and just type: exefile
and then click ok.
Now your executables are restored to functioning again.

reg fix for Xp

Now… Since the virus runs as a spin off of an old virus that has been floating around, the fix is similar for each version of windows it was created for so here is the fix for the windows 7 version of this virus

Just scroll down till you see the virus scanners and all of that and use them all. They are all very important in removing this stupid thing.

RogueKiller.exe
ATF-Cleaner.exe helps clear up what’s on your computer in folders that you got locked out of in the attack.
Spybot
ESET Online Virus Scanner  to clear out the Virus
[Microsoft Essentials Windows 7] | [Windows Defender Windows 8]Not a bad free Virus Scanner. Works pretty good.
unhide.exe will get your icons back and your files back if they disappeared when the virus hit you.

If I didn’t make it clear before. This is not a real virus scanner. This is not a real antivirus. This is a virus and will cause stress on your regular computer usage. You will be at your best interest to remove this resource hog bloated garbage and do not give these people money. do not give these people your personal information.

THIS IS A VIRUS!

Fake Windows Repair On Windows 7

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last month I wrote about fake system restore on windows Xp.
Well I can say without a doubt that the repair restore virus hits windows 7 also.
On windows 7 I got a notice that Google updater needs to update. The virus would not let me select “no”. I uninstall all Google updater and Google toolbars. So I know that there should be no reason for a Google updater program to want access to my computer.
This is the first Windows virus I have experienced on Windows 7. But being a veteran of this specific virus. I knew what to expect. Main thing, is don’t click any of the pop ups. At all.
Push the “windows” logo button on your keyboard and the letter “R” at the same time. because you are about to have everything on your computer hidden from you.
once that opens type in “c:” and press enter. That will take you to your C drive. You can now watch everything look as if it is getting deleted off of your computer. Actually what the virus is doing, is making all of your files “hidden” similar to what you see in this image.

looks like files deleted

hidden files

Don’t worry, your files are not deleted, they are just hidden.
How to get your files back
This pretty creative of the virus writer, because the warning you will see, will look legit and they will say that your hard drive is corrupt or having write errors or that you have a bad sector. So when you look into “my computer” all of your files are gone.. they aren’t gone. If they were gone, you’d be looking at a blank screen.
Well the link I gave above, is the fix, it works the same with windows 7 as it does for windows xp.

Good luck. Took me only 45 minutes this time.
The first time it took 6 hours to solve the issue because I was the first to fix it and post on it. :-)
So yeah.. you are in luck.. you found the right site because everything I link to, to fix the virus, is free.
So have fun with it.

Fake System Restore is a Virus

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Fake computer repair/Restore software infects your computer with a bad virus that is hard to remove, hides your desktop icons and all of the items in the start menu and makes all of your folders hidden and read only. The Virus Also kills Task Manager.
On Windows XP windows 7 and windows vista.
The program has been called pc repair, system restore, pc restore, and probably a few more names I haven’t expected yet.


The pop up tells you that your hard drive can’t be read and your video card is overheating and that this semi-legit looking (except for the buy now button) can fix the issue.
This Virus is a bad one. Killed my computer at work. First Got a pop up that looks like System restore (kind of. never really looked at it) Except in the corner it says “buy Now” and across from it is the cancel button. Now me being a vet of these pop ups I assumed that by clicking the red X in the corner I have better odds than if I click either of the offered buttons.
Boom. all of my icons Vanished and my start menu became emptied, completely. Start menu was completely void of all options. Everything I had in my quick launch deleted off also.Not cool.
I tried the ol 1-2, and rebooted. Nope. Blue screen of Death. Safe mode, nope blue screen of death. Put another hard drive in and use it as the primary hard drive and scan the first hard drive with it’s virus scanner. Which was Windows Essentials. Found the ROOT KIT right away. After the delete and another reboot, blue screen of death.
But after about 6 hours of freaking out hoping the boss does not see. I get my computer restored
Here’s what I used.



RogueKiller.exe
ATF-Cleaner.exe helps clear up what’s on your computer in folders that you got locked out of in the attack.
Spybot
Believe it or not I used ESET Online Virus Scanner  to clear out the Viruses that this System restore thing gave me (worked great on Xp computer, did just okay on windows 7)
Microsoft Essentials Not a bad free Virus Scanner. Works pretty good. Makes the computer a bit slow though. I uninstalled it after I used it. This one finds the trojans left behind from the System Repair virus on Windows 7, and finds some for the system restore virus on xp. and windows 7
unhide.exe will get your icons back and your files back that disappeared when the virus hit you.

 

Then to get my icons back in order on my desktop, killed Explorer and restarted Explorer. To get the Explorer to run, I hit Windows button and the letter “D”, until I could right click on my desktop. You might have to do this three times or so. once you can right click, select “New” and select “Shortcut” Then it will ask you what you want to name it and where you want to point it. point to “C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe” and save. Now double click that shortcut, and kill all instances of Explorer.exe. Then while still in taskmanager on the applications tab, look at the bottom, click the “new task” button. when it opens, type Explorer.exe.

Your folders are not gone, they are hidden and put into “read only” mode. You have to navigate to drive c: find and empty space (no icons in the way) Right click and select “properties” find the view tab. Scroll down and make it makes hidden folders visible folders. Click apply . Now you have to go to each folder one by one, or you can just use that program I posted up there called “unhide.exe” Does all of the unhiding of the folders again. Not sure which one but one brings back all of your uninstalls and fills your start menu again. It’s not a perfect science but it gets you closer with a mess ton of less work. One of those files looks like you have to register, don’t fill anything in just hit ok, it will work in trial mode.. you’re just going to use it once anyway. I did it backward and manually started doing all of this while my friend looked up what to get, by then I was about 30% into it, so some stuff the programs were to do, I already did it and some stuff I did, I bet the programs don’t do. but run all of those before you get to far into it that way you can see for yourself what they fix. Should make a lot of stuff much easier once you use the virus scanners and empty all of that stuff out.
Eset, I never liked them until this. They did quite a bit, and Microsoft essentials found the root kit.

That’s what did it for me.
Hope this works for you.

If this works for you, please share the link or comment below, let me know I am helping. If you need any ideas or tips or better understanding of anything, post below. I will do my best.

In the comments section of another post, someone made a connection between this virus and the software I noted . Netsession_win.exe

PS… If you are here because of Reddit. Hook me up with some Karma. !

So Sick of the Scam Emails

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Are people so stupid still these days that they still fall for the scam emails? I mean really, just because it looks like a legit name for the email like facebook_ceo@rip_you_off.com does not mean that 100% of the internet has to be so stupid as to still fall for that. I mean give it a rest for a while will you please? I mean just long enough for the world to let it’s guard down. The scam emails are getting so constant with the exact same scam over and over it’s like hearing a 4 year old tell you a joke, and probably just as well choreographed.
Facebook.Dating.List@heire.net
Like that junk. WTF…. please quit sending your crap to my email. I guarantee you that not even 1% of the world is stupid enough to fall for that, and the number of hits you can get on your site will not be enough for the amount of effort it takes to spam that garbage out.

There is no facebook Dating program that sends you an email. I didn’t fall for this the first time I got it. I am not falling for it now. I have not fallen for this stupid scam the 100000 times I received this stupid scam of an email. How about you try ” got your nose!” with me, you have a better chance.

Free Online Virus Scan

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Bit Defender. Supposed to be the fastest scanner. I have no idea how accurate this can be. and I think this one only works in internet explorer.

EmsiSoft’s Asquared online Virus scanner.


Free online Virus and Malware scan. Feel free to use this, bookmark the page share with your friends, on what ever Social site you use. This virus scanner is the strongest Virus scanner I know that is totally free. Removes all virus and trojans and worm parts from your computer for complete internet safety and security. Well, at least no current virus will be active on your computer after a scan. This virus scanner group is fast at updating and many virus scan companies contribute to their research, and back the other way.
This will remove all known trojans and malware from your computer even suspicious cookies.
I am happy to have EmsiSoft’s Asquared on my website.

Facebook Virus FARM

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The Real Post about the Face Book Spider Bite scam video

The Virus is called “Koobface”
These are the koobface facebook virus files you need to kill
fbtre6.exe , mstre6.exe
These are the registry entries you have to remove from registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run\”systray” = “c:\windows\mstre6.exe”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run\”systray” = “C:\Windows\fbtre6.exe”

People.. Please. The same stupid virus that has been getting you people since back in the first days of Myspace, is now getting you guys again on Facebook. The virus says ” Wow I can’t believe I can really see who looks at my profile” maybe an exclamation point or two.

How to fix the Facebook virus issue.

Please start with running a virus scan. Any of a good selection of virus scanners will do. If one virus scanner does not find the Facebook virus, try another. There are many listed on that page.
If you can access another computer, please change your Facebook password from another computer while the scanning goes on.
and delete any posts that link to the virus. GO TO YOUR PROFILE TO SEE ALL THE POSTS YOU MADE. You have to delete them to do your part in containing the issue.

I have been fighting the whole facebook hack junk since the end of 2010

Please people, you have to look at the links, look at the Facebook Status posts before you just go wildly clicking.

 

So in this order: scan your computer for a virus, change your password, delete bad posts. done.

How did you get hacked so fast?
You clicked the link, it used some of the Facebook authentication certificate and fooled your computer into trusting it, it gave up your password that you have saved (to make it easier to log in next time). BAM.
The bad ones are from you downloading something that was titled funny so you just had to see what it was.

Also if you are not into the free software that I link on the next page… Look to the right, there are legit ads from Google. Any of them will do. Google only recommends the good stuff. I can assure you that your virus will be removed using Norton or Macafee or any of the big name paid real virus scanners.

Please hit the share button below for your friends on facebook.

Charlie Sheen Facebook Virus

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There is a facebook virus going around. You click the link your account gets stolen your computer gets a virus. The link is titled “RIP Charlie Sheen Found Dead at his House!”

The link claims to have video footage of Charlie Sheen Dead.

Well Charlie Sheen is not dead. Charlie Sheen seems to have called quits to his Ustream rants in his last post on Ustream two days ago.

So there is no footage of Charlie Sheen dead. It is fake. If you have been clicking the links you may want to run a few virus scanners. I have a list of many good Free Virus Scanners that usually will do the trick for you.

Charlie Sheen is Not Dead!

Good luck happy facebookn.

A Stalking Website?

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I was just notified that I was listed on a website “spokeo.com”.
They have every single house I ever lived in, listed.
They have me listed at some crazy high amount of income. They show photos of my house from the street. and they show how many people live in my house and their age.
I thought these “find people” websites had a legal standard of what information they could show?
The person who told me this was a sister of mine. She had to move from the area she was living in because of something that happened to her daughter. Needless to say, they never caught the guys, but they occasionally get mail from one or two of them bragging about what they did. So my sister moved. Now she is getting mail from them again. The guy(s) even told her how they found her. and yes they list her daughter there also, and her daughter’s age.

My sister requested herself removed and my mother and everyone else she knew the address of. Spokeo sent a removal confirmation email, but they are all still listed on that site.
I had to locate every home I lived in with in the past 20 years.
I am still listed on their stalking website.
I am legally unlisted. So how they obtained my information clearly was illegal.
Possibly bought and sold a thousand times over.

To remove yourself from Spokeo go to spokeo.com/contact
go to the drop down menu select “privacy”. type in your name. Do not type in your phone number
Tell them to remove you from the list, and leave a link to the page(s) your are listed on.
There sometimes will be a second page with spot for you to post the link and type in a confirmation code.
I didn’t get that confirmation code, but my sister did. Could be because she removed a lot of people.

Everyone please report this website after you request yourself removed from their listing.
Report them to Google as intrusive, report them to bing as intrusive and posting your personal information.
Get them removed from search engines because what they provide should be illegal.
This site could lead to possible identity theft at the least.
Internet security needs to be a bit more secure than this.
This is how you report a bad website.
Here is another form to report a bad website.
Not sure if either of those will do the trick though. If you have a better link, please post it below.

Here is the confirmation email they sent me.

Dear Spokeo User,

Your directory listing(s) have been removed as requested. Please allow 24 hours to see this change.

Thank you for your patience.

Sincerely,
Nancy
Customer Support Specialist

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:10 PM, wrote:

User: non-user
Email: xxxxxxxxxx
Name: xxxxxxxxxx
Topic: Privacy

Message:
You have me listed , I have registered through the Texas state to not be listed in any directories, paper or electronic, other than state officials only. You have every home I have lived in before and after I registered with the state. You might be in violation of federal law. I would like to know who you got my contact information from. They themselves are in violation also. please email me contact information of who gave you my information. as you know, I have to do my research before I bring in a third party. Just as you have to verify who you are listing before you just list. I prefer my privacy.
http://www.spokeo.com/search?q=xxxxxxxxxx/info
http://www.spokeo.com/search?q=xxxxxxxxxx/info
http://www.spokeo.com/search?q=xxxxxxxxxx/info
http://www.spokeo.com/search?q=xxxxxxxxxx/info

To the readers of this post, If you have a friend or family member listed on that site and you know they are not tech savvy, please request their information be removed from that site, for them. Please help stop this company from intrusion. Please re-post this on your Facebook account or Twitter account, or email this link to family members.

And yes you can request your information be made private from news, public listings and anything not you or the government. In Texas you have to talk to the Department of Public Safety. It’s a short form. I was in and out pretty quick. Did it back in 1996.