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Cybercriminal activity test?

post #1 of 15
3/4/11 at 2:12pm
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Does anyone know anything about this? My sis had it pop up on her laptop. It says:

your operating system might be infected and be a part of a botnet controlled by cybercriminals. your operating system might be used to attack other computers, including those of governmental organizations, sending spam messages, placing prohibited materials, organizing communication channels with cyberciminals and other illegal activities. according to the laws of your country, you might bear responsibility for these actions. in order to oppose to cybercrime and to evade possible prosecution you should perform a scan test of your computer to locate possible malicious software. You may refuse to perform the test. but in case you do so or if any malicious software, which might be a threat for the other users, is located on your computer, according to the license aggreement, all network functions shall be disabled on your computer until a scan test is run, or all malware is removed from your pc.

It sounds like a trojan or virus or some other nasty business, but I can't find anything about it by googling.

Any ideas?
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post #2 of 15
3/4/11 at 2:22pm
Unless it is an actual windows pop up I wouldnt do anything.

Only thing I found:
http://www.franklinpcrepair.com/thecybercriminal.htm
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post #3 of 15
3/4/11 at 2:26pm
I wouldn't trust it. When you click to have it do the scan, it could send a virus onto the computer, or something like that.
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post #4 of 15
3/4/11 at 2:29pm
That is definitely fake. Nothing in windows will pop up with that message. She should never click on an ad like that, or she really will have more viruses than she can shake a stick at. IT's bad, one of my friends did that and of course being the "computer guy" he came to me. 6 hours later and I had to end up salvaging specific files, formatting the entire hard drive, and reinstalling windows.

There is a new one of those out every week, so I am not surprised you couldn't find anything on google about it yet. It's amazing how some of the best programmers in the world spend countless hours creating viruses (these things take at least a full day to make, and that's not including creating a good delivery and propogation method) just because they're bored on a friday night in college.
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post #5 of 15
3/4/11 at 2:35pm
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capt_jordi, thanks for the article. She said trying Alt-F4 got rid of it.

My4LLMA - Yeah, we know not to trust it, just didn't know how to get rid of it.

Thanks to you both for responding so quickly!
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post #6 of 15
3/4/11 at 2:52pm
Have her do an online scan with malwarebytes and run HijackThis. Chances are her computer probably already has something.
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post #7 of 15
3/5/11 at 6:37am
I agree with Strange_Wings. Malwarebytes is a free download. The computer needs to be scanned for viruses. It was definitely trying to get her to click on something. The man who keeps up my computer told me that even deleting them like she did often is too late and the virus is already there. Tell her scan the computer with a good program to be sure it is clean.
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post #8 of 15
3/6/11 at 10:21am
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Thanks everyone. I guess its too late, because now she can't even connect to the internet. Despite knowing better, she did click on it out of frustration, said they asked her for $99.99 to fix it. Then when she tried to get on the next time, it gave the message hard drive not located and wouldn't connect to the internet. Don't know how to get her out of it now. I get so frustrated - I visit there once a year and seems like I spend half the time trying to get viruses, trojans, whatever off her computer. And I know *nothing* about computers other than to google the problem.
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post #9 of 15
3/6/11 at 10:49am
My dad set up my moms laptop so she is a guest on it because he was sick of always getting rid of viruses on her computer. Maybe she should make a guest account on her laptop and use only that one for daily things like internet browsing and login to the admin account for installing programs. Of course, this hinges on her getting her laptop working again first.
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post #10 of 15
3/6/11 at 11:55am
This happened to me - it is a fake malware/adware. Tell him to start the computer on Safe mode. To do this, restart the computer and keep hitting the F8 Key. When the Black screen shows up, choose start windows with network capabilities, and press enter.

Tell him to go on the internet, download and run a software called Ad-Aware. It is free.

Windows also has its own version, called Spybot that he can run, but it will take days and days - It will take care of it, but again, it will take days.
Re start the computer only when he has ran this on safe mode. He will not be able to access anything on regular mode, unless he goes into the start up and disables all the processes that are running for this malware - it can messup his computer if he doesn't know what he is doing though. It is better to clean the malware on safemode then go back to regular startup.
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post #11 of 15
3/7/11 at 6:31am
I am impressed with Malwarebytes. I used to use Norton on my computer, but it bogged the computer down so much that it was almost impossible to use. And I don't think Norton was all that great...I had been hearing quite a bit about Norton being funky. I switched over to Kaspersky about two years ago, and thought everything was OK. Til I ran a scan with Malwarebytes and found 3 infections on DH's computer.

One was a Trojan; two were keystroke loggers; all in the Documents and Settings folder. I do think the infections have been there awhile, but for some reason, Norton didn't pick them up, Kaspersky didn't pick them up, and Spybot didn't pick them up either. But who knows? DH's computer had been operating very slowly for quite some time, despite defrags, disk cleanups, etc. And despite running various spy and anti-virus programs.

Malwarebytes quarantined the infections and deleted them. I did a cold boot and ran it again, just to be safe. Now it really is running faster and seems to be doing much better.

My computer is OK....I ran Malwarebytes on it, too, and came up with nothing.
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post #12 of 15
3/7/11 at 3:09pm
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Originally Posted by Carolina View Post
This happened to me - it is a fake malware/adware. Tell him to start the computer on Safe mode. To do this, restart the computer and keep hitting the F8 Key. When the Black screen shows up, choose start windows with network capabilities, and press enter.

Tell him to go on the internet, download and run a software called Ad-Aware. It is free.

Windows also has its own version, called Spybot that he can run, but it will take days and days - It will take care of it, but again, it will take days.
Re start the computer only when he has ran this on safe mode. He will not be able to access anything on regular mode, unless he goes into the start up and disables all the processes that are running for this malware - it can messup his computer if he doesn't know what he is doing though. It is better to clean the malware on safemode then go back to regular startup.
My sis says to tell you THANK YOU! The Safe Mode thing worked perfectly!
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post #13 of 15
3/7/11 at 4:51pm
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Originally Posted by Misty8723 View Post
My sis says to tell you THANK YOU! The Safe Mode thing worked perfectly!
I am glad it worked!! Those malware suck!
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post #14 of 15
3/9/11 at 9:00pm
Winchester...

what is a cold boot?
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post #15 of 15
3/16/11 at 2:08pm
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Originally Posted by MNJULZ View Post
Winchester...

what is a cold boot?
My apologies! I have PMed you!
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