Monthly Archives: September 2009

Fake Adobe Flash Player

1
Filed under 0day, adobe, fix, malware, security, virus
Tagged as

There is a fake adobe flash player updater that monitors your google searches. It looks just like the adobe flash installer. I’m not sure where I picked it up, but luckily I found this fake adobe flash player on a computer running firefox. Good thing I run NOD 32. I have been getting a notice that NOD 32 was blocking an outbound connection fake_flash

I found out that I was infected by this Fake Adobe Flash Player

While that website does tell you how to figure out if you have it or not, it doesn’t really tell you how to remove it, unless you buy their program. So I’m currently in the process of removing it. If you do have it, you’ll want to stop it right now! I’ve found that by going into Firefox’s extensions (Tools -> Addons -> extensions) you can disable Adobe Player 0.2 and restart Firefox. After doing this, I no longer got the warning for NOD 32 that it’s blocking the connection that msjupdate site, which I don’t know why it hasn’t been shut down yet.
I found socks.exe was running and when I looked for that file, I found it in my Windows/system folder with a creation date of 09-09-09, so I stopped socks.exe and renamed it socks.bak I would have deleted it but just in case it wasn’t installed by this Trojan, I figure it’s better to rename it. If some legit program I have starts complaining that socks.exe is missing, I can always rename it back to socks.exe

Once I’ve figured out how to completely remove it, I will update this post. In the meantime, disabling it will work. It’s after 3AM and I should have been in bed hours ago, but this was too important not to immediately warn you about it and give you at least a way of stopping it until I can post removal instructions.

Donations Now Accepted

0
Filed under Uncategorized

I started this blog to help people. I had no intention of making money off it. Unfortunately, due to the economy I had to take a pay cut at work. To be honest, I’m not able to keep up with bills at this point and my hosting for this site costs money. I’m getting around 20k views a month but I only made less than $1 from Adsense last month and have made less than $5 ever from them. So I need your help keeping this site up. I won’t be able to renew my host if I don’t get any donations. There is now a donation link on the right side of this page. If you want, it will also give you credit on the donation wall. I hate to even ask but since the adsense links aren’t generating anything I don’t have any other choice. I figured it would be better to ask now then to have this site just vanish in a few months.
Thanks