New Malware Disguised as McAfee VirusScan Trial

[Guest]

Well isn't McAfee malware anyway? I mean it fills up RAM and eats up your CPU.

 

[eddieroolz]

Just removed a pretend-anti-malware software from the computer of my friend's family. These things are really good at scaring people.

 

[hardcore_gamer]

its nothing..dell shipped motherboards with malware

 

[Maxor127]

I was infected by a nasty virus a couple weeks ago. I visited gamecopyworld. Just browsed. Didn't download anything. Next thing I know, I'm getting UAC alerts for a program to install. I kept denying it access but it kept popping up and trapping my computer in the gray UAC void. I finally managed to get to the task manager and end a suspicious process and the UAC alerts finally stopped. But somehow a virus posing as an anti-malware scanner got installed anyways through my anti-virus guard and the UAC. Took me a whole day to finally clean it off my computer. I was close to just clean installing everything until I finally found the right combination of anti-virus tools to get rid of all traces of it.

 

[Regulas]

This is getting bad and there seems no end in site. This does give a person a reason to give second thought to Apples approach to a closed system even though they had one program that got approved and stole info from users.
This just in about the new Droid:
Android wallpaper app exploit stole info from millions of users.
http/www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=10167

 

[ihs97]

Capital punishment is too good for these hackers. I'd hand them over to Marcellus Wallace to get medieval on their asses.

I'm so tired of fixing family computers due to malware that I have actually started recommending they get a Mac Mini. Sad I know, but it saves me the time having to clean out their systems.

 

[Regulas]

[citation][nom]hardcore_gamer[/nom]its nothing..dell shipped motherboards with malware[/citation]
But where did the motherboards come from, $100 bucks says they were made in China

 

[LORD_ORION]

There are so many things that can get past UAC and anti-virus that I simply reimage when my system starts acting up. Something is wrong if I make a typo in a URL and end up in a bad place, and suddenly I start getting scare ware browser windows even though I am not surfing.

Can't trust your browser no matter how good you are, it is as simple as that.

 

[teaser]

[citation][nom]Maxor127[/nom]I was infected by a nasty virus a couple weeks ago. I visited gamecopyworld. Just browsed. Didn't download anything. Next thing I know, I'm getting UAC alerts for a program to install. I kept denying it access but it kept popping up and trapping my computer in the gray UAC void. I finally managed to get to the task manager and end a suspicious process and the UAC alerts finally stopped. But somehow a virus posing as an anti-malware scanner got installed anyways through my anti-virus guard and the UAC. Took me a whole day to finally clean it off my computer. I was close to just clean installing everything until I finally found the right combination of anti-virus tools to get rid of all traces of it.[/citation]...........Yep had this about 6 months ago from GameCopyWorld too..yeah it was a bitch to get rid of but I did

 

[hotlazydaze]

McAfee software is such badly written, intrusive rubbish that anyone who even considers using it on their computer without having read the thousands of forum posts by disgruntled users is a fool.

 

[sliem]

1) anyone who falls for this scam deserves it
2) real email from company will not include an attachment
3) why would you even want mcafee?
4) backup your precious data often and backup properly

 

[r3t4rd]

I wished they'd make this fake MaCaffee for OSX as well. I just want to see an acutal article on Toms with a picture of a worm inside an Apple. That would make my day. Apple users are more gulable.

 

[hellwig]

[citation][nom]Maxor127[/nom]I was infected by a nasty virus a couple weeks ago. I visited gamecopyworld. Just browsed. Didn't download anything. Next thing I know, I'm getting UAC alerts for a program to install. I kept denying it access but it kept popping up and trapping my computer in the gray UAC void. I finally managed to get to the task manager and end a suspicious process and the UAC alerts finally stopped. But somehow a virus posing as an anti-malware scanner got installed anyways through my anti-virus guard and the UAC. Took me a whole day to finally clean it off my computer. I was close to just clean installing everything until I finally found the right combination of anti-virus tools to get rid of all traces of it.[/citation]
I got the same damn thing on my computer from GameCopyWorld a week ago. However, I just rebooted my machine into safe mode and restored to a restore point from before I had visited the website. Cleaned it off my PC just fine.

What I don't understand is how Windows 7 allows software to install itself as Antivirus software without my interaction (I was never prompted by UAC to install anything to my computer). This must have been a vulnerability in Flash, because I was using Opera (and I assume others were using Firefox). Worst part was, it took over my computer, telling me things like explorer.exe and taskmgr.exe were viruses, and Windows 7 was allowing this bogus software to CLOSE the programs (i.e. I couldn't kill it with task manager, because it was killing task manager). Needless to say, my confidence in Windows 7 security dropped to damn zero after this fiasco. If my legit anti-virus AND Windows 7 64-bit both let something like this through, the world is totally screwed.

Oh, regarding the article, anyone stupid enough to install an unsolicited application they received via email shouldn't be allowed to use the internet. Period.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]captaincharisma[/nom]this goes to show that some people just should not own computers[/citation]
I believe that too but on the other hand if they did not own computers I would lose ALOT of money. I make so much money off of the stupidity of people, as much as I hate dealing with idiots the money makes me rethink taking away their comps... decisions decisions

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]hellwig[/nom]I got the same damn thing on my computer from GameCopyWorld a week ago. However, I just rebooted my machine into safe mode and restored to a restore point from before I had visited the website. Cleaned it off my PC just fine.What I don't understand is how Windows 7 allows software to install itself as Antivirus software without my interaction (I was never prompted by UAC to install anything to my computer). This must have been a vulnerability in Flash, because I was using Opera (and I assume others were using Firefox). Worst part was, it took over my computer, telling me things like explorer.exe and taskmgr.exe were viruses, and Windows 7 was allowing this bogus software to CLOSE the programs (i.e. I couldn't kill it with task manager, because it was killing task manager). Needless to say, my confidence in Windows 7 security dropped to damn zero after this fiasco. If my legit anti-virus AND Windows 7 64-bit both let something like this through, the world is totally screwed.Oh, regarding the article, anyone stupid enough to install an unsolicited application they received via email shouldn't be allowed to use the internet. Period.[/citation]
NoScript, FlashBlock, AdBlock!

 

[jimmysmitty]

[citation][nom]liquidchild[/nom]This is not new.....my moms computer BSDed 4 months ago. I had to reinstall
EVERYTHING and lost a lot of family pics. I suspected the free trial but could not prove it as im not a PC wiz. Great job in finding the bug who ever did.[/citation]

For the future, get a HDD external adapter. We have them at work and can hook up any HDD to our benches via USB.

That way you can save the files.

 

[Regulas]

[citation][nom]Camikazi[/nom]NoScript, FlashBlock, AdBlock![/citation]
Or Linux/OS X both Unix based.

 

[Maxor127]

[citation][nom]hellwig[/nom]I got the same damn thing on my computer from GameCopyWorld a week ago. However, I just rebooted my machine into safe mode and restored to a restore point from before I had visited the website. Cleaned it off my PC just fine.What I don't understand is how Windows 7 allows software to install itself as Antivirus software without my interaction (I was never prompted by UAC to install anything to my computer). This must have been a vulnerability in Flash, because I was using Opera (and I assume others were using Firefox). Worst part was, it took over my computer, telling me things like explorer.exe and taskmgr.exe were viruses, and Windows 7 was allowing this bogus software to CLOSE the programs (i.e. I couldn't kill it with task manager, because it was killing task manager). Needless to say, my confidence in Windows 7 security dropped to damn zero after this fiasco. If my legit anti-virus AND Windows 7 64-bit both let something like this through, the world is totally screwed.Oh, regarding the article, anyone stupid enough to install an unsolicited application they received via email shouldn't be allowed to use the internet. Period.[/citation]
Sounds like what I had. I use Vista though and I was using Firefox. Safe mode didn't work for me, and restore points didn't work either. I kept quarantining the virus, and it kept coming back. A combination of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and HijackThis got rid of it.

 

[ulysses35]

does anyone actually still use Macafee ??

 

[cookoy]

this is your anti-virus software? this is the virus!