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TR WARNING!!! ‘Virus Protect Pro’

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The following is a copy of a PeerMail I sent to CaptBillyOneEye a few minutes ago:

Well, I ran just about every anti-virus option available on the UBCD disc – no joy.

Checked on the net and found copious entries for ‘Virus Protect Pro’ which my sad mate, had contracted whilst visiting certain sites pertaining to the scrotal regions of his body. In other words – the w*nk*r was into pron sites.

This virus is particulary F*KKING nasty. Every which way I turned – it popped up.
Couldn’t install anything from memory stick.
Couldn’t access Vista-proper.
Couldn’t access Vista in safe mode WITHOUT the virus.
Couldn’t access Windows Explorer from anywhere.
Couldn’t stop the virus popping up.

Couldn’t run System Restore successfully – tried three pre-virus restore points and each one failed to complete “due to system error”.

Only option – Full Destructive Recovery. (After five and a half hours of trying)

Let this be a warning to all and sundry – THIS VIRUS KILLS!!!

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Thanks for the heads up on that!

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This sounds more like

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a good reason to not use Internet Exploder.

Thank God for Firefox. 😀

Had this one a week ago,

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on the CFO’s laptop so a complete Nuke and Pave wasn’t an option. It seems to be a bit less destructive on XP, fscking annoying popups everywhere, it took 4 hours to get rid of all the bloody spyware that this thing had installed.

Ditto.

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I saw it about a month ago. The user says it was from the hotel’s wireless system. Yeah, right. I didn’t have to start from scratch, but it took most of an afternoon to scrape the mutha off.

Just got it again; requesting confirmation of a theory, please.

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Different user, different hotel.

Theory: We disable the Windows firewall in our environment. As long as the user sticks with our VPN client when he’s out of the building, and uses VPN to access our proxy server, no problems. However, many users will disable the network settings in IE, allowing them to avoid the hassle of the VPN login, use the hotel’s Internet connection, and hit those web sites blocked by the proxy server. Since they’re now surfing without the company security, and the local Windows firewall is off, they’re running naked and vulnerable.

Make sense to anybody else, or am I full of crud? If I’m making sense, I’d like to send out a warning against bypassing the VPN or changing the proxy server settings. Then we’ll look at a group policy to prevent them from changing the settings.

Sounds logical to me

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And IE will hold the settings, so when they’re done, all they have to do is go back in and select the proxy option.

Send your warning.

makes good sense to me…

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Spybot S&D now removes this.

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The 15 August 07 update for Search and Destroy will remove this piece of crapola.

Sad Mate

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Right, a mate, I see.

Yahoo answers has some tips on it.

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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070630184511AAMO0yb

Who are you?

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nobody of note

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OK

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Confirmed – Was just checking. Thanks for confirming who you are.

I’m a pepper

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wouldn’t you like to be a pepper too?

No thanks…

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happy as good old numberon3.

What’s with the monochrome ribbon?

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Not into PINK ?

Check it out Mycroft…

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http://www.theblackribbon.org/

You look more like number 2 to me….

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Well at least Richard_RPU is gone!

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Which is great!

You’re next.

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and you will not be missed.

Mycroft.

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He’s waging a war against his own narcissism.

I can’t even imagine HAVING to…

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Announce to the world that I was a recovering narcissist!

‘Coz like alcoholics, you’ll never be cured! There’s way too many mirrors around for that, including download sites.

All I’ve got, is a small, round one…

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That’s for shaving!

I have Richard_RPU tucked away now…

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thanks.

I see happy to support one cause

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slate me when I berate another YET…
do exactly the same yourself to another.

We have an opening….

Poetry by numberon3

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“How do I love me, let me count the ways”

“I am a many splendard thing”

Let’s not forget his favorite music…

“Oh lord it’s hard to be humble”

Geez, this guy is so in love with himself, he kisses himself goodnight!

Oh you poor poor thing…

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didums get your wittle feewings hurt?

Whatever….

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Richard_RPU will be with you shortly…..

are those tears I see on your face?

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yep…

Looks like someone can dish it out but can’t take it.

Time will tell – looking forward to the dawn of realisation

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So you were saying…tears was it?

Reverse – backward?

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I’m not the one from the ‘pishy wee toon’ called Tain.

My you’re self-absorbed.

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if you were as important to everyone else as you are to yourself, you’d have more notoriety than Mahatma Ghandi.

Attacking a town now – sure sign of a loser.

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Can’t think of a suitable riposte
AND
Changing the subject too

Message was edited by: Jay Garmon

Thanks (ABOVE ARE THE POSTS)

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I have enough above to complain to TR about now – your accounts will be shutdown soon I guess.

Note how I refrained from any REAL nasty comments unlike you two.

More likely, yours will be shut down.

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You’ve just confessed to deliberately disrupting TR.

Thanks, and have a nice day, whiner.

Hey Mycroft…

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He’s going to go crying to mommy now!

LMAO & FYI…

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This “pishy wee toon” is the Royal Burgh of Tain.

Oh,yeah, and again FYI I’m not ‘from’ Tain – I was born and educated in Glasgow, worked in Glasgow, Crawley, London, Chessington, Croydon, Horsham, Guildford, Oslo, Trondheim,
Paris, Agadir to name but a few.

Tain is where I have CHOSEN to be for the remainder of my life and I can assure you it is far more popular as a place than you will ever be as a person.

I see you dropped your ribbon pretty quick…

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So you finally realised that when you tied it the ‘wrong’ way, no matter whether you look at it from the front OR the back, it’s still swinging the wrong way in whatever wind there is.

I’m cured

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OTHERS seem to be more afflicted than me.
Complete no names & a royal Tain in the ass.

Mmm…others that could spell ‘realised’ perhaps…

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Hmmm, they noticed your remarks – you are ow marked Mycroft

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http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=232437&messageID=2296593

Finally got rid of it!

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Spent a lot of time manually deleting from various places, including the registry, with no effect. Ran all my spyware and virus programs. Same result. Finally downloaded, and ran a complete scan on all drives, SuperAntiSpyware FREE. Scans everything, found 86 more instances of virus protect pro. Removed them AND the stupid flashing icon with its popup warning!!

HELP in NEED!

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Good day to you…read the forum as i was browsing on how to get rid of the viruses in my pc. I was asked about the serial number of the Virus Protect Pro so I could threat the viruses. What does it mean? can u please help me with it? thanks…please email me back at cathy_g23@yahoo.com thanks a lot!

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