Virus Alert to Mega-upload users!

[tenaya]

Helping to get the word out here. I visited MU tonight and did pick up the trojan. I downloaded MalwareBytes and it did find the nasty lil' devil. Original post at:

http://gateruner.livejournal.com/251220.html?view=2878804#t2878804

To anyone who uses the Mega Upload site.

There appears to be a particularly nasty Trojan installer virus embedded within a JavaScript (JRE Runtime) pop-up ad. I hit the site twice just to be sure.

Type: Trojan/Fake-loader
Source code: Javascript, JRE Runtime platform
Info: It installs 2 component fake 'programs' including a system defragmenter and something called ThinkPoint (hotfix.exe)
Symptoms: Makes you believe your machine is failing. Says there are memory resource errors, no more disk space, hard disk failures (including corrupt sectors)

Target folders: (Windows users) User\AppData\Local\Temp

Solution: Disable System restore, boot into safe mode, clean using Malware Bytes and follow-up with your most current anti-virus scan.

Unfortunately I stumbled upon this a few hours ago and have spent all this time cleaning my machine. This one is a bad one folks. Spread the word!

You can find MalwareBytes at the following website: http://www.malwarebytes.org/
It is some kick-ass software folks! Will get stuff when other programs don't.

Comments

[paian]

Thanks for the heads-up!

[amalthia]

Thanks for the heads up.