Get out of here Mulberry

[exotion]

This is an interesting thread, but I think it misses the opportunity to discuss what is really going on with much of the spam I have seen here. Most of it is nonsense text with hidden urls as part of the text, whose sole purpose in many cases is to deliver drive by malware! google moneypack virus(or fbi virus) to see and example. Many of the users on these forums are not IT people and might not recognise the risk for what it is. Getting rid of the spam is the best thing however once it is on the forum and starting to get read... then the risk rises.

My laptop has had the money pack virus twice... you can't actually get rid of it anything short of a full wipe of hard disk and reinstall of windows

 

[txzrider]

Try malwarebytes, I used it on my sons laptop and it worked. I was never able to find all the registry settings that all the how to fix sites list... but malwarebytes worked.

 

[djdicetn]

Try malwarebytes, I used it on my sons laptop and it worked. I was never able to find all the registry settings that all the how to fix sites list... but malwarebytes worked.

Most times I am on here, it is at work(TN Dept. Of Treasury) and believe me when your network has the responsibility for every penny of State government dollars(incoming/outgoing) our Windows desktops have leading edge malware/firewall technology that even protects my individual workstation from being "compromised". After going through several Windows PC products at home(McAffee, Norton, Trend Micro, Kapersky) as well as additional layers of freeware, like Malwarebytes, Ad-Aware, SpyBot, etc. I finally bit the bullet last May(when my circa 2005 Compaq Presario finally bit the dust..."something" wiped out the bios) and bought a "real computer"(2012 iMac with Mountain Lion and 24GB of memory). Between strong passwords for user accounts, OSX firewall, no Auto Login, FileVault and external drive encryption I feel pretty protected from the knarly stuff hackers have at their disposal. After 42 years specializing in mainframe support/technology(btw Mainframe and UNIX rarely, if ever, have unathorized access) I simply feel sorry for hackers that with their skillset cannot find an occupation that is actually a "contribution" to society rather than a burden on it:0(

 

[exotion]

Most times I am on here, it is at work(TN Dept. Of Treasury) and believe me when your network has the responsibility for every penny of State government dollars(incoming/outgoing) our Windows desktops have leading edge malware/firewall technology that even protects my individual workstation from being "compromised". After going through several Windows PC products at home(McAffee, Norton, Trend Micro, Kapersky) as well as additional layers of freeware, like Malwarebytes, Ad-Aware, SpyBot, etc. I finally bit the bullet last May(when my circa 2005 Compaq Presario finally bit the dust..."something" wiped out the bios) and bought a "real computer"(2012 iMac with Mountain Lion and 24GB of memory). Between strong passwords for user accounts, OSX firewall, no Auto Login, FileVault and external drive encryption I feel pretty protected from the knarly stuff hackers have at their disposal. After 42 years specializing in mainframe support/technology(btw Mainframe and UNIX rarely, if ever, have unathorized access) I simply feel sorry for hackers that with their skillset cannot find an occupation that is actually a "contribution" to society rather than a burden on it:0(

Ha.. back when I was good with computer code mostly c++ and c# and html this was when win 98 was still newish for my middle school tech final I rewrote win95 I found out windows has a line of code in it where it purposefully loses memory something like 500k a day. And was doomed to fail after 5 years. So I rewrote it burned it to a disk and put it on my (now rly old) compaq laptop and amazingly with no virus protection and annual formatting reinstalling my win95 we have no problems and still use it for basic web stuff.

My point is there is no "real" computer just like lawn mowers your computer needs maintenance. Delete cookies and temp files weekly. Defrag monthly. Keep your recycle bin empty. Keep your start up folder as empty as possible. Kill useless background programs.

Most importantly never I repeat never have any virus program that runs full time on your computer. They drain your memory slow your computer and by definition are themselves viruses.

 

[Carscw]

Most times I am on here, it is at work(TN Dept. Of Treasury) and believe me when your network has the responsibility for every penny of State government dollars(incoming/outgoing) our Windows desktops have leading edge malware/firewall technology that even protects my individual workstation from being "compromised". After going through several Windows PC products at home(McAffee, Norton, Trend Micro, Kapersky) as well as additional layers of freeware, like Malwarebytes, Ad-Aware, SpyBot, etc. I finally bit the bullet last May(when my circa 2005 Compaq Presario finally bit the dust..."something" wiped out the bios) and bought a "real computer"(2012 iMac with Mountain Lion and 24GB of memory). Between strong passwords for user accounts, OSX firewall, no Auto Login, FileVault and external drive encryption I feel pretty protected from the knarly stuff hackers have at their disposal. After 42 years specializing in mainframe support/technology(btw Mainframe and UNIX rarely, if ever, have unathorized access) I simply feel sorry for hackers that with their skillset cannot find an occupation that is actually a "contribution" to society rather than a burden on it:0(

What?

Not that I need to know but I have no clue what your talking about.

Have not touched a pc in over 5 years

(( cowboy up and get over it ))

 

[txzrider]

I dont think I have ever described apples mac line of computers as real computers, implying the rest are not. Apply certainly does many things right with it, enforcing sudo and setting the defaults to be much more secure... windoz could be that way and Microsux likes to think it is.. but until they stop letting the default user be admin with full admin rights... that ain't gonna happen. I have been a unix admin now for 25 plus year haveing started in mf and then mini's... so I understand what you mean completely. The 1st thing I tell anyone who asks me to fix their kids computer that is virus ridden... is create a new user for him w/o admin rights, and then change the user with admin rights to a pw that only you the parent knows... and never tell your kid! When my sons lt was hit with the money pak virus, while his user kept displaying the ransomeware... if I rebooted as admin... no problems at all. This allowed me to fix his login.

 

[djdicetn]

What?

Not that I need to know but I have no clue what your talking about.

Have not touched a pc in over 5 years

(( cowboy up and get over it ))

Sooooo, R U hacking into the forums on your smart phone:0)

 

[buzzzmeister]

This is an interesting thread, but I think it misses the opportunity to discuss what is really going on with much of the spam I have seen here. Most of it is nonsense text with hidden urls as part of the text, whose sole purpose in many cases is to deliver drive by malware! google moneypack virus(or fbi virus) to see and example. Many of the users on these forums are not IT people and might not recognise the risk for what it is. Getting rid of the spam is the best thing however once it is on the forum and starting to get read... then the risk rises.

Oh yeah, rule number one of a spam post - Never, never, ever click the link. And if checking out the member's account, never click the website link. Or the signature.

And beware of the.hidden stuff (like this last sentence).

And just because, here's the obvious stuff from yesterday:

http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/members/tienlixitienquocte2014.html
http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/members/tonydoan03.html
http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/members/willngo0301.html
http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/members/ppmsgn0310.html
http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/members/minhl311.html
http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/members/tienquocte_sacom123.html

Probably all Vietnamese. The Viet MO is to usually always put in a birth date & an age and a 'fairly local' time zone (if you could see the back side of the account info).

 

[djdicetn]

Oh yeah, rule number one of a spam post - Never, never, ever click the link. And if checking out the member's account, never click the website link. Or the signature.

And beware of the.hidden stuff (like this last sentence).

Good advice!!! I won't even click on a link I receive in an email from "someone I know" until I contact them first. It's too easy to have your email address hacked nowadays(especially if you use a hotmail, gmail, etc. account).

 

[Carscw]

Sooooo, R U hacking into the forums on your smart phone:0)

The iPhone app for this group is very good.
Very easy to use and no ads.

Was telling LMF yesterday I would look at the forum in my browser but I forgot my password over a year ago

(( cowboy up and get over it ))