Warning About Sendspace

[talitha78.livejournal.com]

Cross-posting from my personal journal:

PSA: My computer is currently infected with a Trojan virus I'm almost positive I got from downloading a vid from Sendspace. I just thought I would warn others about a possible source of infection.

I am currently running the anti-malware software that someone in my comments suggested: http://talitha78.livejournal.com/184561.html .

Comments

[boxer-ferret.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a huge problem. Saw something about it here...

http://forums.techguy.org/malware-removal-hijackthis-logs/582802-solved-i-just-picked-up.html

Java might to blame, I think. Be sure to update that.
Running Malwarebytes on your own probably won't get rid of Vundo, BTW, but the guys at various tech help forums seem to be able to help people remove it.

[talitha78.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the link! I *think* Malwarebytes got it all, but I'm going to follow the tech guy's advice anyway, just to be extra safe.

[boxer-ferret.livejournal.com]

I have McAfee Security, which let Vundo and others through in the first place the other day. But today it downloaded some updates and started zapping Vundo right away. Then I downloaded the latest Malwarebytes update and ran it and it found Vundo again and deleted it with some needing to finish deleting on a reboot. After that everything seems to be fine, so hopefully that's the last of it. I've just updated Firefox and am about to update Java since that's probably where I got into trouble.

[talitha78.livejournal.com]

I downloaded the latest Malwarebytes update and ran it and it found Vundo again and deleted it with some needing to finish deleting on a reboot.

That's exactly what happened with me. Hopefully that's caught it all.