The squids need to stay off the fries...

http://yupki.mine.nu:8081/i/x248yupke.php

 

be warned this site wants to all kinds of things to your computer, massive
popups and reset home page.

 

I ran Spybot S&D when I noticed this site uploading something to my
puter. You can download Spybot Search and Destroy free. It found one new
piece of spyware, probably from this site.
Here's the poop:

Company: The Gator Corporation
Product: Gator/Offer Companion/Trickler/GAIN
Threat: Annyoing Spyware

Company URL: http://www.gator.com/
Company product URL:
http://www.gatoradvertisinginformationnetwork.com/help/gainfaq.html
Company privacy URL:
http://www.offercompanion.com/help/privacy_statement.html

Functionality
Fills in passwords for you and shows you a lot of ads.

Description
Upon visit of some Gator related pages, it tries to download and
install. According to Tribune Media Services (via
http://www.securitynewsportal.com/ via http://www.cexx.org/gator.htm):
"Gator tracks the sites that users visit and forwards that data back to
the company's servers. Gator sells the use of this information to
advertisers who can purchase the opportunity to make ads pop up at
certain moments, such as when specific words appear on a screen. It also
lets companies launch a pop-up ad when users visit a competitor's Web site."
And Gator saves your identity in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID section of
the registry - good place to hide, if you've got something to hide.

Privacy Statement
Some information we may collect, use, and associate with your Anonymous
ID includes:
Which web pages your computer views and how much time is spent at those
sites
Your response to the ads we display
Standard web log information and system settings
What software is on your computer
Your first name, country, and five digit ZIP code
Your GAINware usage characteristics and preferences
Information associated with your Anonymous ID is used in any of three
ways: a) to offer assistance (e.g. knowing when to offer help filling in
a form or adjust your computer's clock), b) to select and deliver
installation files for optional new GAINware and/or third party software
applications, and c) to deliver advertisements and information to you on
behalf of our advertisers who are often competitors of the web sites you
are viewing.

 

I ran Spybot S&D when I noticed this site uploading something to my

if your system was properly patched up to date, and your security settings
haven't been set lax, you should have been asked before Gator could have
been downloaded.

you might use the 'immunize' function in spybot. and install all the
myriad of security fixes and service packs for whichever version of
windows you have

 

Interesting you should mention security fixes and service packs...for
two days, I've been flooded with bogus MS fixes which carry a virus.

Anyone else been getting them?

barbz

 

No, but some asshole hijacked my e-mail address to send spam.

--
muddy

Testing the limits of gravity since 1947.

icq - 219328929

 

Yes. I am paranoid enough to reject them and rely on the Windows
Update function to get all operating system changes.

R, UB

 

Yup - I've gotten 70 of the fake-MS emails.

I visited the site in question, but SpyBot doesn't find anything amiss
now. Maybe because I began using the Kerio Personal Firewall a few
weeks agao. Seems to do its job very well.

And I am getting some "email returned" messages that might indicate
that my address has been spoofed.

donc

 

Its the latest FUCKING ANNOYNG GOD DAMNED PIECE OF SHIT mail worm. It
goes out of its way to look real legit.

 

Oo er, did someone open an attachment?

--
muddy

Testing the limits of gravity since 1947.

icq - 219328929

 

That's part of the virus attack from "swen." What I was talking about
with Spybot was the picture that Peers posted a link to, which is a
website that loads all kinda crap and popups unwanted onto your puter.
Spybot will toast those spyware apps the site sneaks onto your box.

Two different issues, the Microsoft updates and email returned things
are part of a hideous and widespread viral assault on everyone (except
you Mac guys, I know, I know...)

barbz

 

Of course not. I use a unix command line mailreader. But it pollutes
the hell out of my inbox because I've written a lot on the net over
the years and it all goes to one place.

Between mindight and 8:30 this morning, I received 200 messages, all
but one of them virus or spam, mostly virus.