Re: Re-appearing links

From: Mimic (null_at_void.net)
Date: 11/25/03

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    "Soet" <soet@onlinehome.de> wrote in message news:bprkiv$muu$1@online.de...
    > Hi Mimic,
    >
    > I am not ashamed of admitting that I visit sites with adult content.
    > I live in Germany and we are pretty open to such things.
    >
    > However, I can assure you that I never visited that particular site
    > and I never admitted anything to be executed on my PC that came
    > from a webpage, since I am aware of the risks.
    >
    > Yet, the advices of the other guys didn't help. This stupid links
    > keep re-appearing. Neither NAV, nor AdAware or Spybot
    > cleaned the problem. Maybe they are not aware of this particular
    > bug.
    >
    > I have no chance to track down the root of this annoying problem.
    > I will most likely end up re-installing the system to get rid of it.
    >
    > Regards
    >
    > "Mimic" <null@void.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
    > news:hcmdnbxhvI1tvVyiRVn-sA@brightview.com...
    > > "Soet" <soet@onlinehome.de> wrote in message
    > news:bpp91p$rcg$1@online.de...
    > > > Hi all,
    > > >
    > > > I've got a heavy (security) problem on my WinXP machine and hope
    > > > to get information here about where to start looking for solutions.
    > > >
    > > > I found several links/shortcuts to a specific porn site in my start
    > menu,
    > > > my favorites list, and also on my desktop although I neither placed
    them
    > > > there nor did I ever visit this site. I keep on deleting all of the
    > links
    > > > but
    > > > after a random time span they keep appearing again. Needless to say
    > > > that this is absolutely annoying and more importantly very
    frightening.
    > > >
    > > > I scanned my whole computer with the norton anti-virus scanner and
    > > > up-to-date virus definition files but couldn't find anything. I also
    > > checked
    > > > all processes in the task manager and all automatically started tasks
    > and
    > > > services with msconfig but couldn't find anything suspicious.
    > > >
    > > > Does anybody have an idea if this is some hidden process messing with
    > > > my system or possibly an attack from the internet (have DSL).
    > > >
    > > > Any advice is appreciated
    > > > Suat
    > > >
    > > >
    > >
    > > Sounds like youve been going to gn0rty sites and got fooled by the "you
    > have
    > > to click yes to proceed" button.
    > > Dont be ashamed, most people look at porn
    > >
    > > --
    > > Mimic
    > >
    > > "Without Knowledge you have fear, With fear you create your own
    > nightmares."
    > > "There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand
    Binary,
    > > and those that dont."
    > > "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but
    > > when you do, it blows away your whole leg"
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >
    >

    Glad to hear it.
    It doesnt matter if you havent visited that particular site, when you get
    into http porn its just an industry of popups and leads, someone could have
    just had a popup that linked the OK or No button to accept the download.
    If i were you, id prolly go into the registry and have a root around :D 

    --
Mimic
"Without Knowledge you have fear, With fear you create your own nightmares."
"There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand Binary,
and those that dont."
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but
when you do, it blows away your whole leg"
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