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You can be infected and not know it, right?

nowaysj wrote:You can be infected and not know it, right?

yeah thats how trojans work right? they are a back-door jobbie (no pun intended)
Im on a mac, and although the OS is really secure, im worried if it could effect me.

I'm straight. My immune system is healthy because of the constant threats my os has to survive. It's a guns, germs, steel kind of thing.

Depone wrote:

nowaysj wrote:You can be infected and not know it, right?

yeah thats how trojans work right? they are a back-door jobbie (no pun intended)
Im on a mac, and although the OS is really secure, im worried if it could effect me.

You're fine. You have to remember that attacks like this still require some sort of major browser vulnerability to exploit, and if it were one well known enough to be used in an attack, it's pretty much certain it's well known enough to have been patched promptly. The only people who could have something to worry about are IE5 or IE6 users, as those are ancient and definitely have some holes that haven't been fixed. If you're using even only a relatively up to date version of Opera, Chrome, Firefox, IE8, Safari you have absolutely nothing to worry about.

finally working

Phigure wrote:

Depone wrote:

nowaysj wrote:You can be infected and not know it, right?

yeah thats how trojans work right? they are a back-door jobbie (no pun intended)
Im on a mac, and although the OS is really secure, im worried if it could effect me.

You're fine. You have to remember that attacks like this still require some sort of major browser vulnerability to exploit, and if it were one well known enough to be used in an attack, it's pretty much certain it's well known enough to have been patched promptly. The only people who could have something to worry about are IE5 or IE6 users, as those are ancient and definitely have some holes that haven't been fixed. If you're using even only a relatively up to date version of Opera, Chrome, Firefox, IE8, Safari you have absolutely nothing to worry about.

What if you ignored the browsers warning a few times?

wirez wrote:

Phigure wrote:

Depone wrote:

nowaysj wrote:You can be infected and not know it, right?

yeah thats how trojans work right? they are a back-door jobbie (no pun intended)
Im on a mac, and although the OS is really secure, im worried if it could effect me.

You're fine. You have to remember that attacks like this still require some sort of major browser vulnerability to exploit, and if it were one well known enough to be used in an attack, it's pretty much certain it's well known enough to have been patched promptly. The only people who could have something to worry about are IE5 or IE6 users, as those are ancient and definitely have some holes that haven't been fixed. If you're using even only a relatively up to date version of Opera, Chrome, Firefox, IE8, Safari you have absolutely nothing to worry about.

What if you ignored the browsers warning a few times?

thats what i did

You guys should get avast. its sandbox blocks all the trojans. BTW everytime i came on early yesterday i was getting trojan warnings...You guys almost definitely have a trojan

oh yeahhhhh

gnome wrote:You guys should get avast. its sandbox blocks all the trojans. BTW everytime i came on early yesterday i was getting trojan warnings...You guys almost definitely have a trojan

lol

you can check if you run

netstat << this shows all the connections to your machine and what port they are using

close all your internet apps ie msn, aim, steam etc ... then start > run > cmd

then type netstat

if there are any connections you dont recognise in this list or you think shouldnt be there

press ctrl+alt+del goto the process window and look for any process's you dont recognise

(google each exe name ... and it will normally tell you what the exe does and who its by and if its safe)

now if you find a dodgy exe you first need to disable the process and delete the file

click end process to end the dodgy exe

next search your c: for the exe ... find the file and delete it.

if windows wont allow you to delete the file you need to check a few things

a. if windows says the file is locked (download a freeware file unlocker unlock the file and delete it)
b. the process is still in use ? (determine where the process is executed)

.... to determine where the process is started the most logical places to check are your registry and system services

(using regedit (start > run > regedit))
in the registry check under :
hklocalmachine/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run
hklocalmachine/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/runonce
hklocaluser/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run
hklocaluser/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/runonce

(or you could use mike lins startup manager http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml)

if the exe if found in the above delete the entry restart and attempt to delete the file again

if the exe is not found in the above .... it is possibly installed as a service (you'd need to check controlpanel>administrative tools > services)

i do this on a regular basis b/c i dont rely on my AV software to be correct 100% of the time ... new virus's and non public code / exploits are always a threat

^^^^^

QFT...

Its pretty much what a AV does, really.. Just abit more detailed.

Man, I didn't think it was going to come back up. I was a bit worried there for awhile as I really enjoy this place.

Strangely, this is like the 5th site I visit frequently that has been hit by hackers in just the passed week or so. It must be some sort of conspiracy against music sites. All the big producers got together and decided they didn't want anymore "newbie" producers trying to work their way up to replace them so they hired elite hackers to take them all down.

like i said before the rollback if you use firefox
noscript addon, adblock plus addon

Phigure wrote:

Depone wrote:

nowaysj wrote:You can be infected and not know it, right?

yeah thats how trojans work right? they are a back-door jobbie (no pun intended)
Im on a mac, and although the OS is really secure, im worried if it could effect me.

You're fine. You have to remember that attacks like this still require some sort of major browser vulnerability to exploit, and if it were one well known enough to be used in an attack, it's pretty much certain it's well known enough to have been patched promptly. The only people who could have something to worry about are IE5 or IE6 users, as those are ancient and definitely have some holes that haven't been fixed. If you're using even only a relatively up to date version of Opera, Chrome, Firefox, IE8, Safari you have absolutely nothing to worry about.

I posted about it in the thread here concerning the warnings, but the thread was lost during the downtime.
In Chrome, after clicking the "Proceed Anyway" button on the warning page, as soon as DSF loaded a random .pdf file downloaded to my documents. I didn't open it for obvious reasons, but I locked it in an encrypted archive for later inspection. Anyone else get that? It came from some bullshit domain like yitiieiwe.com and was named mn6l193d.pdf (10KB).

I'm a mac

wirez wrote:I'm a mac

hope you have an antivirus program and not under the typical mac user delusion of security

wirez wrote:I'm a mac

The only reason why Macs are so secure is no-one wants to bother spending their time to write virus's for the minority, you know this.. right?

Which to me, means is that you're invaluable to the hacker world haha!

macs are hackable FYI

if you must know they're vulnerable to the 'usb rubber duck' attacks (the funny thing is im not joking hehe ... rubber duck attack lol)

as are pc's and many linux based systems

infact one up for windows .... in the 1st quarter of 2010 the amount of exploits for linux exceeded the total amount of exploits for windows.

tripaddict wrote:macs are hackable FYI

if you must know they're vulnerable to the 'usb rubber duck' attacks (the funny thing is im not joking hehe ... rubber duck attack lol)

as are pc's and many linux based systems

infact one up for windows .... in the 1st quarter of 2010 the amount of exploits for linux exceeded the total amount of exploits for windows.

Exactly haha, the hacking world don't know the term "unhackable" you're not safe on your computer if you suffer from stupidity.

deadly habit wrote:

wirez wrote:I'm a mac

hope you have an antivirus program and not under the typical mac user delusion of security

As much as I've heard a Windows user say that Mac's can still get viruses, I've still never seen it