Spyware alert . . .

[Smee]

Anyone here ever hear of "Adbrite"? It is an advertising company who rotates ads on various forums . . . including this one.

I got a warning from my "NoScript" plugin in Firefox. Adbrite is one of the companies who places ads for "WinAntispyware" (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=381065) and "WinAntivirus", both of which are members of the Smitfraud virus family.

Please be very careful before clicking any of those ads. According to "http://www.adsensechat.com/archive/index.php/t-4838.html" the landing pages this company uses are dangerous and blocked by programs like Trend Mirco PC-cillin ( a LEGITIMATE antivirus, makers of "housecall" online virus scanner and the owners of "Hijack This!") and Kaspersky (another LEGITIMATE antivirus program). Norton ignores it, but then again almost every computer I get in my shop infected with Smitfraud is running Norton . . . go figure

What is Smitfraud? In terms of time at the computer shop, 2 hours in most cases (sometimes less, depending on which version and how many trojans it downloads to your computer) and sometimes it is only cleaned by a Format and OS reinstall if you get a really nasty variant. Most of the time, the machines I see come with Virtumundo if they have Smitfraud.

Just something to think about . . . and watch out for if clicking those ads.

I wonder if Tnet could just place their own ads or write their own ad rotator script --- maybe even use one of the hundreds of easily configurable FREE ones available on the web without spyware.

But, for now, I just love my noscript addon.

EDIT: forgot to add that, while McAfee Site Advisor says the site is OK, you should scroll down the page a bit (actually 6 pages of comments on Adbrite) and read a few of the comments.

http://siteadvisor.pl/sites/adbrite.com/summary/

 

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[Newt]

Anyone here ever hear of "Adbrite"? It is an advertising company who rotates ads on various forums . . . including this one.

I got a warning from my "NoScript" plugin in Firefox. Adbrite is one of the companies who places ads for "WinAntispyware" (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=381065) and "WinAntivirus", both of which are members of the Smitfraud virus family.

Please be very careful before clicking any of those ads. According to "http://www.adsensechat.com/archive/index.php/t-4838.html" the landing pages this company uses are dangerous and blocked by programs like Trend Mirco PC-cillin ( a LEGITIMATE antivirus, makers of "housecall" online virus scanner and the owners of "Hijack This!") and Kaspersky (another LEGITIMATE antivirus program). Norton ignores it, but then again almost every computer I get in my shop infected with Smitfraud is running Norton . . . go figure

What is Smitfraud? In terms of time at the computer shop, 2 hours in most cases (sometimes less, depending on which version and how many trojans it downloads to your computer) and sometimes it is only cleaned by a Format and OS reinstall if you get a really nasty variant. Most of the time, the machines I see come with Virtumundo if they have Smitfraud.

Just something to think about . . . and watch out for if clicking those ads.

I wonder if Tnet could just place their own ads or write their own ad rotator script --- maybe even use one of the hundreds of easily configurable FREE ones available on the web without spyware.

But, for now, I just love my noscript addon.

You probably should have sent this to a mod instead of posting here. They can clear these things up quickly.
Newt

 

[Timberwolf]

Smee,

I have picked up the Virtumundo a few times and so far, Malwarebytes has removed it.

TW

 

[Smee]

Smee,

I have picked up the Virtumundo a few times and so far, Malwarebytes has removed it.

TW

It isn't hard to get rid of, but can really be a pain once you have it.

1 word: Sandboxie.