phasmid Report post Posted May 22, 2006 As everybody is probably aware the forum was hacked into last night (21/05/06) and a Trojan horse virus placed onto the site. Admin took the immediate precaution of closing the site in an effort to stop the spread beyond the members who were on-line at that time. The moderators have been reassured by the Admin team that it would be virtually impossible for members personal details (beyond those already freely available) to have been accessed. However we would suggest that for added peace of mind (NOT because of any perceived or known threat) that you may wish to consider changing your password. The site's Admin have pointed out in response to a question regarding passwords that: it is always good practice to change passwords regularly and make them as complex as possible. In an effort to help everyone who was affected please would members post on this thread any successful (freely available - we are not endorsing any products) anti-virus programs that they have used to get rid off any virus found on their system since yesterday. The Mods Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mel Report post Posted May 22, 2006 i use one called antivir. you can get it at www.free-av.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
~Jonathan~ Report post Posted May 22, 2006 I use Norton which isn't free but there are some great precautions out there, such as Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware which are both free. The best way to cure a Trojan virus is to minimise the amount of items that are booted up in the Startup Menu when you log on as that's usually where Trojans reside. Turning off System Restore before logging out is good too then come back online and run the precautions again. This more often than not clears things. You can then switch on System Restore and reboot. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lindy-lou Report post Posted May 23, 2006 I use AVG free edition and EWIDO home suite free edition. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phasmid Report post Posted May 23, 2006 The most succesful on mine were: SpyBot AVG (free ed) and a few others that I pay for. I was running an AVG scan when our friendly visito called as it happened (phew) it seems to have grabbed them as they cam in, had a good old round or two of puggilism and thrown them into the virus vault. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mossgrove Report post Posted May 23, 2006 I use AVG anti-virus http://www.grisoft.com and ZoneAlarm firewall http://www.zonelabs.com Both are the free versions and haven't let anything past so far. Simon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smiley Report post Posted May 23, 2006 I have Norton - my computer is fine now - i think Norton kicked in and threw it out before it got very far.. How do i check if it's gone?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phasmid Report post Posted May 23, 2006 Cick on the Norton icon and have it run a scan. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flora Report post Posted May 23, 2006 I used free AVG anti-virus to find and vault the infected files. It doesn't fix them or delete the virus, but we typed the name of the virus and found a website which gave simple instructions on how to remove the virus. This was simply clearning the java cache and then removing temporary internet files. I scanned the computer again and the virus was completely gone. Lauren Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bagpuss Report post Posted May 23, 2006 (edited) After reading the replies I installed the AVG thingey. Its scanning computer at the mo. So far its found 20 infected objects Trojan things????? Is it really straight forward to vault these when scan is complete and do i wait for scan to finish before doing so?Complete techno phobe I'm afraid, and feel a little uneasy about viruses and how to deal with them properly. thanks. Just to add scan now complete. Says it found 17. 9 deleted. Went onto Virus Vault and found 9 in there. Is that the 9 that have been deleted? What about the other 8? Edited May 23, 2006 by Bagpuss Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smiley Report post Posted May 23, 2006 Cick on the Norton icon and have it run a scan. Thank you Phas <'> All done - nothing detected here Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flora Report post Posted May 23, 2006 After reading the replies I installed the AVG thingey. Its scanning computer at the mo. So far its found 20 infected objects Trojan things????? Is it really straight forward to vault these when scan is complete and do i wait for scan to finish before doing so?Complete techno phobe I'm afraid, and feel a little uneasy about viruses and how to deal with them properly. thanks. Just to add scan now complete. Says it found 17. 9 deleted. Went onto Virus Vault and found 9 in there. Is that the 9 that have been deleted? What about the other 8? Bagpuss... If you go into you control panel, select the java icon, and then delete the java cache. Then go into tools on your browser, select internet options, and delete the temporary internet files. You have the same anti virus as me and it will detect the infected files but it won't delete them so you have to do the above. Hope this helps!! Lauren Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bagpuss Report post Posted May 23, 2006 Lauren, Thanks for advice. DH is taking computer to shop tomorrow to have it looked at. We're abit worried about the other viruses we've found, and so flipping lousey at anything technical we thought we'd err on the side of caution and get the professionals to sort it Our ds said tonight that he's been told going on Runescape can cause viruses, and he's always on it, but we don't know to be honest. Anyway, will be computer less tomorrow till next day, so will be sat at home, with forum withdrawal symptoms.... Can you buy forum patches?? Hosts/Moderators, Please ignore my email requesting/begging/pleading for help because I couldn't log back in I was putting my forum name in rather than my username , which was why it kept saying member details not recognised.......... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest flutter Report post Posted May 29, 2006 runescape can give u lots of viruses to start with then as time goes on it gets less it does seem to melt child's head, and make them loose all track of anything so it is now banned form my house ( nt child) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lisann Report post Posted June 2, 2006 (edited) Hello Don't know if it is relavent but just have a little pop up type thingy asking me if I want to debug because a runtime error has occured ???never had it before should I worry??? Lisa x Edited June 2, 2006 by lisann Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smiley Report post Posted June 2, 2006 Again - don't know if it's relevent. But, the when i've clicked on the 'last click' part under the online user list - there's be lots and lots of 'registering' - it's been going on throughout the day. At one point it was a whole page full................. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites