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Post by itachirumon on Apr 17, 2011 0:56:40 GMT -5
Hey all, maybe someone can explain to me what just happened.. I opened IE 8 just like usual but it lagged a few moments and then I got one of those weird windows Alert messages. It only allowed me to hit the Ok button to get through them and I couldn't force-close the page with ctrl+w. The messages were freaky.
"Hi"
"*something*"
And then a string of about 7 numbers that I didn't really recognize followed by 2 more.
I have no idea what virus would cause this, how I could have gotten it, or why it's chosen now to strike - I'm running a virus scan now but i'm freaked out
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Post by MaybeNever on Apr 17, 2011 4:12:44 GMT -5
I don't know specifically what that was, but IE is fairly notorious for having gaping security holes. Could be connected.
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Post by happycheeze on Apr 17, 2011 9:00:03 GMT -5
Hey all, maybe someone can explain to me what just happened.. I opened IE 8 This. Get either Firefox or Chrome. |
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Post by Shane for Wax on Apr 17, 2011 9:33:01 GMT -5
>> IE is dangerous, yo.
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Post by Distind on Apr 17, 2011 11:42:06 GMT -5
If you can get the actual message I may be able to give a guess, otherwise I'd recommend checking out this tool: www.malwarebytes.org/I've used it a half dozen times on people's machines and it almost always works. If it doesn't, then you're really fucked, but if it doesn't I may be able to get you to the point where it does. Just make sure it's updated. While I'm not going to start the same fight up all over again, these days it's more likely to get hit by your own stupidity than something simply slipping through I7 or higher. You have to click to do damn near everything, but it pretty well works. |
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Post by caseagainstfaith on Apr 17, 2011 13:15:25 GMT -5
If you can get the actual message I may be able to give a guess, otherwise I'd recommend checking out this tool: www.malwarebytes.org/I've used it a half dozen times on people's machines and it almost always works. If it doesn't, then you're really fucked, but if it doesn't I may be able to get you to the point where it does. Just make sure it's updated. While I'm not going to start the same fight up all over again, these days it's more likely to get hit by your own stupidity than something simply slipping through I7 or higher. You have to click to do damn near everything, but it pretty well works. See Distind you give up to early. I have 2 lines of last resorts should (usually) the anti-virus not pick it up. Malwarebytes and if malwarebytes can't get the job done I go to my last resort which has not personally failed me yet which is a tool called ComboFix - www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/anti-virus/combofix It usually even finds shit malwarebytes didn't pick up in its' scan. But I always keep it as a last resort since Malwarebytes usually gets the job done. |
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Post by MaybeNever on Apr 17, 2011 15:25:28 GMT -5
My last resort is to destroy my computer with a progressively smaller series of hammers.
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Post by itachirumon on Apr 17, 2011 15:33:47 GMT -5
-laughs- well, whatever it was, that was the only symptom I saw and it hasn't acted up yet. I gotta say I'm kinda glad it struck when it did though, that wouldn't have been a fun thing to get at 3 am with most of the lights off, alone. I do use IE8 and I have firefox but it doesn't have my favs saved to it so I mostly use it for websites that IE can't seem to run.. like parts of Quia and stuff.
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Post by MaybeNever on Apr 17, 2011 16:02:22 GMT -5
I might be wrong, but I suspect that Firefox will let you import your favorites from IE. Chrome does, so I'd be surprised if Firefox did not.
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Post by Rat Of Steel on Apr 17, 2011 17:55:17 GMT -5
Meh, what can I say. Error messages can say (not to mention do) some pretty strange things.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Apr 17, 2011 19:59:33 GMT -5
Firefox can let you import your favs. You just have to find the right process.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Apr 17, 2011 20:57:47 GMT -5
-laughs- well, whatever it was, that was the only symptom I saw and it hasn't acted up yet. I gotta say I'm kinda glad it struck when it did though, that wouldn't have been a fun thing to get at 3 am with most of the lights off, alone. I do use IE8 and I have firefox but it doesn't have my favs saved to it so I mostly use it for websites that IE can't seem to run.. like parts of Quia and stuff. In Firefox: File > Import > From Microsoft Internet Explorer > Ensure "Favourites" is checked > OK. Et voila, Internet Explorer's favourites are now on Firefox. |
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Post by Dan on Apr 19, 2011 16:21:45 GMT -5
Sounds more like the website you use as your IE homepage was compromised in some way. (Any web page can use JavaScript to pop up a message, and the browser will not respond to anything till the message-box has been dismissed. And if the JS is coded to immediately pop up another message (and then another, etc), you get a series of pop up messages and no apparent way of getting rid of them. It's annoying but mostly harmless.)
If IE is behaving itself now, presumably the site has been fixed.
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Post by Old Viking on Apr 19, 2011 16:44:18 GMT -5
I once got an error message that told me I was adopted.
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