VirusBursters - How Does it Get Installed?

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VirusBursters - How Does it Get Installed? Paul Adare 11-26-2006
Posted by Paul Adare on November 26, 2006, 10:46 am
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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.

--
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


Posted by Malke on November 26, 2006, 11:37 am
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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.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Posted by Paul Adare on November 26, 2006, 12:11 pm
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microsoft.public.security news group, Malke

> 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


Posted by Malke on November 26, 2006, 2:46 pm
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Paul Adare wrote:

>
> Thanks Malke, I'll mention that to them.
>
> Any other vectors that anyone is aware of?

Tons. Unfortunately, there are many ways. Often it is as simple as they
are already infected and the malware is busy downloading more malware,
which is busy downloading more malware.... ad infinitum or until the
computer locks up completely. You can see a good illustration of that
on Ben Edelman's site - http://www.benedelman.org/.

Another way is the classic popup that comes when the user is surfing and
it says something alarming like "Your computer is not safe! Download
[insert malware program here] and protect yourself!" So the poor chump
clicks on it and before s/he knows it, they've got Smitfraud or a Vundo
(Winantivirus, Spyfalcon, etc.). The VirusBursters crap is another
variant of the Smitfraud trojan.

There are a lot of "Safe Hex" sites for you to point your daughter and
her S.O. to, but this one is quite good and aimed at regular users:
http://www.getsafeonline.org/

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

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