Post by Schamæl on Aug 4, 2009 15:31:38 GMT
Thought I'd make this thread for alerts, etc.
Under no circumstances ever click this link:
img232.lmageshack.net/view.php
Adam gave it to me accidentally (well, his WLM did anyway) part way through a conversation and it attacked my system pretty nastily.
It got right through my securities. It takes you to a blank page which is a download, which will save to your hard drive automatically.
Then it'll extract and unload a .PIF file called Photoxclad.pif which will stop everything working basically. Explorer will continually restart around every 20 seconds or so, and everything will be annoying and start to go, including drivers, etc. A system restore fixed it for me, but before that I tried a simple cold manual restart. It was ineffective, but afterwards I had this in my clipboard history (a Yahoo! widget called Scribbler manages my clipboard), which I had certainly not put there:
jeramaga76
(though it might have been jeramega76)
If anyone has heard of this I'd be very appreciative of any information. Anything at all. This removed itself afterwards from my clipboard and also the part of my conversation including the link was deleted, but nothing else was affected.
Googling the username or whatever it is is inconclusive, and there have been no ill effects since the incident.
Under no circumstances ever click this link:
img232.lmageshack.net/view.php
Adam gave it to me accidentally (well, his WLM did anyway) part way through a conversation and it attacked my system pretty nastily.
It got right through my securities. It takes you to a blank page which is a download, which will save to your hard drive automatically.
Then it'll extract and unload a .PIF file called Photoxclad.pif which will stop everything working basically. Explorer will continually restart around every 20 seconds or so, and everything will be annoying and start to go, including drivers, etc. A system restore fixed it for me, but before that I tried a simple cold manual restart. It was ineffective, but afterwards I had this in my clipboard history (a Yahoo! widget called Scribbler manages my clipboard), which I had certainly not put there:
jeramaga76
(though it might have been jeramega76)
If anyone has heard of this I'd be very appreciative of any information. Anything at all. This removed itself afterwards from my clipboard and also the part of my conversation including the link was deleted, but nothing else was affected.
Googling the username or whatever it is is inconclusive, and there have been no ill effects since the incident.