Scooby Soon!

I have just had this appear on one of our PC's at work and 3 friends PC's with in the last 24 hours, nothing has been installed on our work PC so how the hell did it get on it? IS there some sort of browser exploit thats not been patched?

Its easy enough for me to remove but seems strange that it is appearing on PC's all over the place in the last 24 hours?

nothing on my mac...yet!

hodgy0_2

yes -- it seems it went live on sunday -- my 13 yr old daughter rang me whislt I was on a training run to say she had it at about 11.00 am

I had to completely reload the OS on her notebook as it would not even load to a boot screen (I even took the HDD out and ran it through my malaware bytes via a usb)

listed on BT's website

http://btbusiness.custhelp.com/app/service_status

jura11

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Download Combofix or Malware Anti-Bytes and you will be safe...for now maybe.



Jura

JPL

Got it on the wifes netbook, she was just browsing her normal "safe" sites.

I've fixed it, but anyone got a clean link to Malware Anti-Bytes (the free install), I've checked a couple and it took me to other pages so considered them a bit dodgy.

birchy2010

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Yep loads had it already. Seems to have found a loop hole to install with.

scubbay

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Got this from searching through ebay on Sunday

Saint AAI

What browser are people using when getting this?

Scooby Soon!

we mainly use firefox with a little bit of Internet explorer

scubbay

iTrader: (61)

Firefox here too

Ant

My mac doesn't have it

dagger

my son got this the other day, on his laptop, i believe it was off facebook -

easy fix:

reboot in safe mode
use system recovery
back date it to the week before
reboot
run your anti - virus
I use AVAST free edition
picked it up


hope this helps ;-)

Miniman

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Looks like it was the ads rather than the sites themselves.

I use adblock in Firefox myself, but I guess anyone using bog standard IE or Firefox and "surfing" could come across these types of attack vector.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12608651

danos14

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hi,

any idiots guide to getting rid of this bloody thing?

cheers

daniel

Ray T

Appeared on my office pc this morning, ran malwarebytes to get rid, though 2.5 hours to scan all 3 drives.

Scooby Soon!

F8 on boot, select safe mode with networking, install malware bytes runs quick scan (5mins), done!

danos14

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many thanks

will give it a go later

JackClark

"Adobe was becoming a favourite among hi-tech criminals, he said"

Why people defend that horse**** is beyond me.

danos14

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superb, worked a treat many thanks

Adrian F

If they have stopped the adverts that spread this why are people still getting it?