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misterchippergigglequack
Minnie's Melodyland Toon
Age: 44
Joined: 25 Feb 2008
Posts: 388
Location: Somewhere between 4 and 44
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yeah..I'm back too BonnieD...oh well  I guess it doesn't matter since I can't get rid of it anyway! I have had our IT guy working on it all morning and I even tried after he left....just not getting it  I believe this virus is "brave sentry" and the fix is smitfraudfix.exe although I (we) have tried several times...just can't get it gone.
bummer
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LittleWacky
Thingummyjig Fairy Loves Me!
Age: 38
Joined: 05 Jun 2007
Posts: 268
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I'm littlewacky's son and she asked for help with this. It seems that this only affects internet explorer so I told her to scan and I also told her to use Mozilla Firefox. You can get Firefox from http://getfirefox.com IT WILL NOT REMOVE IE. I have tried this website in internet explorer so I think I have the virus now and I am doing a scan myself.
maybe symptoms of virus:
random freezes
Edit: I'm going though the HTML of the search page and searching for the ActiveX control now.
Edit: After a quick search I couldn't find anything. It seems that the site ya.ru is linked with a Russian search engine called yandex
Edit: | LadyZ : | | I use Firefox and got the bad site last night. I have not gotten it today on FF. So maybe there is a connection. Doctor Skids did some stuff earlier and will do more as soon as he is able after work. |
You may have gotten redirected to the site but you would not get the virus becuase FF does not use ActiveX controls.
Edit: well it seems that the ActiveX control popup isn't coming up on my VM(Virtual Machine). I'm gonig to restart my VM and see what happens.
Edit: It seems that the virus is gone.
Last edited by LittleWacky on Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:19 pm; edited 3 times in total
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LadyZ
Thingummyjig Fairy
Age: 30
Joined: 05 Oct 2005
Posts: 6343
Location: Nagging MST
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I use Firefox and got the bad site last night. I have not gotten it today on FF. So maybe there is a connection. Doctor Skids did some stuff earlier and will do more as soon as he is able after work.
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LadyZ
Thingummyjig Fairy
Age: 30
Joined: 05 Oct 2005
Posts: 6343
Location: Nagging MST
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| LittleWacky : | | I'm littlewacky's son |
Sorry I sounded kind of curt in the last post. It was one of those "all heck breaks loose" moments here where the kids were falling apart and the hubby just getting home. 
I meant to say thanks for looking into this!
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MissBonnieD
Donalds Dock Toon
Age: 43
Joined: 06 Mar 2008
Posts: 115
Location: at sea level
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| misterchippergigglequack : | | yeah..I'm back too BonnieD...oh well I guess it doesn't matter since I can't get rid of it anyway! |
Maybe some of you would like to try this site: WWW.SUPERAntispyware.com/ There is a free edition there that I have been told will not mess with you regular internet security and will work with vista, and that it should get rid of this virus. I tried it this afternoon to see if I had been reinfected. Good news, I was not! Plus it was very easy to use (even I could do it)!
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Doctor Skids
Champion Penguin Thrower
Age: 35
Joined: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 1925
Location: Begging For Pocket Lint
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Howdy. Sorry for all of this junk. I have cleaned this all up, along with all of my other stuff. Thinking of getting out of the website business soon, I simply do not have time for this stuff at all anymore. If I had this wouldn't have happened. Again my apologies.
Hope you all are all fixed up now.
Last edited by Doctor Skids on Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:19 pm; edited 1 time in total
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Doctor Skids
Champion Penguin Thrower
Age: 35
Joined: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 1925
Location: Begging For Pocket Lint
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I also highly recommend doing a deep scan of your entire computer if you fear you have been infected at all.
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Varmint
I got my eye on you.....
Age: 42
Joined: 08 Dec 2005
Posts: 3257
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Prillian is having the same problem. Sorry for adding more to your load Dr Skids.
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Nanner
Punctuation Police
Age: 48
Joined: 21 Nov 2005
Posts: 3670
Location: Thingducky Jigquacky
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So color me confused here. Deep cleaning isn't getting rid of it? Or if my anti-virus program isn't showing it anymore then I'm fine? (Kaspersky)
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| Edited by Nanner on Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:11 am: Cuz I can't speel! |
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LVTP
Biding my time...
Age: 43
Joined: 03 May 2006
Posts: 1229
Location: Doing the Hokey Pokey!
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I tried the site Brady advised. It seemed to clean up all but two files. A friend patiently walked me through manually deleting them. I still get the annoying yellow warning that says spyware is on my computer - but a desktop picture covered that up easily. Not sure yet what else needs to be done. I did have to delete my system restore file - it did not let me restore to an earlier date. But I no longer get the interrupts and fake crashes. It's a start at least.
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Doctor Skids
Champion Penguin Thrower
Age: 35
Joined: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 1925
Location: Begging For Pocket Lint
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I do believe I got the prillian stuff fixed too. Again sorry for this junk.
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Crazy Boo Boo Fuzzysocks
Mutant Baby Daddy
Age: 46
Joined: 15 Dec 2005
Posts: 557
Location: If not at work...probably at the casino!
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Thanks, Brady, for all your working in restoring the site. You Rock!!
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misterchippergigglequack
Minnie's Melodyland Toon
Age: 44
Joined: 25 Feb 2008
Posts: 388
Location: Somewhere between 4 and 44
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| Nanner : | | So color me confused here. Deep cleaning isn't getting rid of it? Or if my anti-virus program isn't showing it anymore then I'm fine? (Kaspersky) |
Tired of that "Humany" lookin' Peach? what symptoms do you still have Nanner? if any...My work PC still has a small pop up on the task bar reminding me that I'm infected but I have cleaned the registry several times and don't seem to see anything except for the small pop up...I do have the color back on my desktop too. It seemed like it was prone to freezing anyway (crummy windows) so it's hard for me to tell  imac YAY!
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LVTP
Biding my time...
Age: 43
Joined: 03 May 2006
Posts: 1229
Location: Doing the Hokey Pokey!
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Thanks Brady! 
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Nanner
Punctuation Police
Age: 48
Joined: 21 Nov 2005
Posts: 3670
Location: Thingducky Jigquacky
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| misterchippergigglequack : | | Nanner : | | So color me confused here. Deep cleaning isn't getting rid of it? Or if my anti-virus program isn't showing it anymore then I'm fine? (Kaspersky) |
Tired of that "Humany" lookin' Peach? what symptoms do you still have Nanner? if any...My work PC still has a small pop up on the task bar reminding me that I'm infected but I have cleaned the registry several times and don't seem to see anything except for the small pop up...I do have the color back on my desktop too. It seemed like it was prone to freezing anyway (crummy windows) so it's hard for me to tell imac YAY! |
LOL Humany lookin' Peach?  No symptoms just from others saying they were having problems getting rid of it I wondered if it was really gone. Oh wait my little garbage can icon is missing but other than that.......
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Little Lily Kookypop
"K" Beans anyone?
Age: 41
Joined: 08 Dec 2005
Posts: 487
Location: uk
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I had the Russian page appear from nowhere which I closed quickly. I had suspiscious files show up on Sophos which were quarantined and I have now deleted. Laptop is still working fine so I am hoping all is well and back to normal.
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snowynight
Daisy's Garden Toon
Age: 47
Joined: 21 Jan 2008
Posts: 325
Location: OH
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| Crazy Boo Boo Fuzzysocks : | | Thanks, Brady, for all your working in restoring the site. You Rock!! |
Yes, Thanks so much!
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MissBonnieD
Donalds Dock Toon
Age: 43
Joined: 06 Mar 2008
Posts: 115
Location: at sea level
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| Doctor Skids : | | Sorry for all of this junk. I have cleaned this all up, along with all of my other stuff. Thinking of getting out of the website business soon, I simply do not have time for this stuff at all anymore |
Junk happens. I would like to add to the the thanks for all of your time! As for getting out of the website business say it aint so!!! This site of yours is awesome!
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Doctor Skids
Champion Penguin Thrower
Age: 35
Joined: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 1925
Location: Begging For Pocket Lint
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I took backups of it in it's fixed state, should be easier to restore if it happens again.
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