Re: VirusBursters - How Does it Get Installed?

In article <#yYidkXEHHA.5028@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, in the
microsoft.public.security news group, Malke
<notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says...

Paul Adare wrote:

Hi all,
Somehow my daughter or her boyfriend manage to keep
infecting their computer with VirusBursters. I am curious if
anyone knows what programs install VirusBurster? I don't need
any help removing VirusBursters as there is a great how-to on
BleepingComputer.com but I would like to know what installs this
piece of crap so I can warn the two of them away from it...

Thanks.


They are probably downloading what they think are codecs from one of the
well-known pseudo codec sites.

Thanks Malke, I'll mention that to them.

Any other vectors that anyone is aware of?

--
Paul Adare - MVP Virtual Machines
Waiting for a bus is about as thrilling as fishing,
with the similar tantalisation that something,
sometime, somehow, will turn up. George Courtauld

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