Myspace even more dangerous

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For along time Ive known myspace to have its hacking scams and the occasional link to a infected site but lately its hitting the home front for me a few days ago I was checking out my own profile and when I clicked on my background by accident Firefox was redirected to a drive by download site for Anti virus 2008 or something called “xp virus scan” or something along those lines and I have no clue how it happened Ive made sure to never enter my password on any false sites after following links and Ive been exceedingly paranoid you could say about things like those asking for passwords or anything of the sort Im not really worried because I can always create a new site but its just confusing to me as to how it happened

Justin

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There are better places than myspace where you can set up a free website. :slight_smile:

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RogueRemover is a utility that can remove various rogue antispyware, antivirus and hard drive cleaning utilities. Rogue applications are applications that rather than remove spyware, provide false positives, distribute malware or spyware, advertise, or provide useless uninstallers. The main point is that rogue applications are useless and eat up system resources.

Check http://www.malwarebytes.org/rogueremover.php

I also suggest:

  1. Disable System Restore and reenable it after step 3.
  2. Clean your temporary files.
  3. Schedule a boot time scanning with avast with archive scanning turned on.
  4. Use SUPERantispyware, MBAM or Spyware Terminator to scan for spywares and trojans. If any infection is detected, better and safer is send the file to Quarantine than to simple delete than.
  5. Test your machine with anti-rootkit applications. I suggest avast! antirootkit or Trend Micro RootkitBuster.
  6. Make a HijackThis log to post here or, better, submit the RunScanner log to to on-line analysis.
  7. Immunize your system with SpywareBlaster or Windows Advanced Care.
  8. Check if you have insecure applications with Secunia Software Inspector.
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Yeah I know ive got a facebook as well as a hoverspot and a Xanga I havent checked in…2 years I believe and Tech this computers not infected I shut down the browser using the task manager so I dont accidentaly agree to something by pressing the X

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Sorry… I thought you were hijacked and being prompted to install fake programs…

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Any of the social networking sites will be havens for hackers and malware writers. They are the logical places for malcreants to harvest victims. :frowning: