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Tweak says, "Sorry. I sold them on Ebay."

Emily lurks and attacks! (sassylime) wrote,
@ 2009-10-22 22:41:00

What the heck.

Somehow my computer managed to infect itself with a trojanthingy in the not-quite two hours I was gone this evening. And now Firefox is going buggy on me, but only on insanejournal, from what I can tell... the links are all going to ads and I'm not sure how to make it stop. The link for Corrie's journal, for instance, is http://greatfeedmill.com/?do=rphp&sub=252&b=75169215160&q=entries&orig=http%3A//wellberightback.insanejournal.com/
Maybe I'll just become a Safari girl. I'm using it now and there haven't been any such issues.

My computer alerted me to the trojanthingy in the first place by telling me I NEEDED TO BUY THIS PROGRAM RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW to fix a problem I didn't even know existed. I gave it my credit card number. With my luck, that thing that popped up to fix my problems was written into the virus and and now a forty-year-old man who lives in his mother's basement is buying Star Wars porn with my paycheck.

ETA: Okay wait, it's happening at LJ too. And Dreamwidth. And Facebook.

And apparently this is happening to a lot of people in the last couple days. Gaaaah.

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	pigs_in_space 2009-10-23 04:50 am UTC (link)
	Yikes! Cancel that credit card right now! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sassylime 2009-10-23 04:52 am UTC (link)
	MAYBE IT'S OKAY THOUGH. I don't know I can't deal with this rubbish. Maybe if I ignore it it will all go away. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pigs_in_space 2009-10-23 04:52 am UTC (link)
	Better safe than sorry, though...seriously, cancel that sucker. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sassylime 2009-10-23 04:53 am UTC (link)
	....HOW I've never DONE this before head, wall. head, wall. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

pigs_in_space, 2009-10-23 04:57 am UTC

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sassylime, 2009-10-23 05:00 am UTC

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sassylime, 2009-10-23 05:14 am UTC

	sira_ne_biber 2009-10-23 04:56 am UTC (link)
	Agreed with above! Better safe than sorry. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sassylime 2009-10-23 05:00 am UTC (link)
	:( (Reply to this) (Parent)

	themiserychick 2009-10-23 05:07 am UTC (link)
	What was the program that your computer alerted you to buy? I'd say cancel the card- it sounds sketchy. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sassylime 2009-10-23 05:09 am UTC (link)
	Something very generic.... Security Tool? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	themiserychick 2009-10-23 05:11 am UTC (link)
	I just Googled it, and it doesn't seem legit at all. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sassylime 2009-10-23 05:12 am UTC (link)
	Awesome, there's fifty bucks down the drain. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

theblev, 2009-10-23 05:49 am UTC

sassylime, 2009-10-23 05:59 am UTC

milkandcookies, 2009-10-23 10:35 am UTC

sassylime, 2009-10-23 01:13 pm UTC

	kat_bus 2009-10-23 05:12 am UTC (link)
	DDD: that sucks! I agree that you should probs cancel the card; that thing sounds like it was a scam. ): (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sassylime 2009-10-23 05:13 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, it probably was. And I should've known that at the start, but when I said "no thanks" and closed it, the problem was still there so I thought... eh, I don't know what I thought. Probably "OMG want internets back nao." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kat_bus 2009-10-23 05:16 am UTC (link)
	Something similar happened to me when my computer was envirused a few months ago, so I definitely know the "I should've known" feeling! ): (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sassylime 2009-10-23 05:28 am UTC (link)
	:( It's because we can't function without our computers. We'll try anything to keep them working. Well, I will anyway. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kat_bus, 2009-10-23 05:36 am UTC

sassylime, 2009-10-23 05:40 am UTC

	theblev 2009-10-23 05:41 am UTC (link)
	Ugh, I think that might be the thing that I got over the summer. It is not a happy thing. I'm going to try to walk you through getting rid of this, but I need to get onto my desktop (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sassylime 2009-10-23 05:43 am UTC (link)
	You are the most marvelous and wonderful person who has ever existed, and I owe you five times just for being willing to help with this. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

theblev
2009-10-23 05:47 am UTC (link)

Okay. First of all, are you having problems opening up any other anti-virus/anti-malware programs you might already have on your computer? The one I had wouldn't even open the programs up, because the thing like, already had a backlog of knowledge as far as programs that could kill the bug, and would keep people from being able to run them. For example, I have Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, which is a beautiful wonderful thing, and I couldn't get that one to work.

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	sassylime 2009-10-23 05:57 am UTC (link)
	I have... Norton? And it opened all right, but while I know that's a legit program I'm not altogether clear on what to use it for. And I don't know that it's up to date. Yeah, it was probably just a matter of time before I got something like this. Cluelessness. :-/ (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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	cmedance 2009-10-23 07:03 am UTC (link)
	BOY THIS REALLY TICKS ME OFF (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sassylime 2009-10-23 07:05 am UTC (link)
	OMG that icon I'm not sure whether to laugh or be creeped out (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cmedance 2009-10-23 07:08 am UTC (link)
	Bingo! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

wellberightback, 2009-10-23 07:11 am UTC

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sassylime, 2009-10-23 07:26 am UTC

	sherlock 2009-10-23 12:56 pm UTC (link)
	o jeez. I hope you got that credit card cancelled asap because that's exactly the sort of thing they do. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sherlock 2009-10-23 01:00 pm UTC (link)
	Also if you haven't gotten it to work yet, try starting your computer in safe mode, then installing adaware from lavasoft -- it's usually very good about finding and destroying malware. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sassylime 2009-10-23 01:12 pm UTC (link)
	I'm not sure how to do that, but my roommate offered to take my computer to a mutual friend's while I'm at work so he can work on getting rid of the thing. So hopefully he'll be able to do something about it; he's more computer savvy than I, not that this is very difficult. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sassylime 2009-10-23 01:11 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I got it cancelled, so I think I shouldn't have anything to worry about there... that is, they may have got my fifty bucks, but they'll won't get ~~my freedom~~ the rest of my money. (Reply to this) (Parent)