CUK May have yet another virus

[petergriffin]

Just disable the antivirus.

[Platypus]

On the other hand only a few more days of putting up with MF.

How so? Did I miss something?

[alluvial]

Do you know what the virus is and what it does? Think I may have been hit by it last night and wondering if I'm fewked.

[NickFitz]

Do you know what the virus is and what it does? Think I may have been hit by it last night and wondering if I'm fewked.

Seems like it's primarily aimed at getting scareware on to systems: OpenX ads leading to malware c/o ‘BlackAdvertsPro’ | Naked Security

[BrilloPad]

How so? Did I miss something?

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...ml#post1542064

[alluvial]

Seems like it's primarily aimed at getting scareware on to systems: OpenX ads leading to malware c/o ‘BlackAdvertsPro’ | Naked Security

Thanks Nick.
Think I'd better run a full scan when I get back.
I think I'd better review my antivirus provision as well. Any suggestions?

[Scoobos]

I'd say the amateur hour is also on the code writer - since the malicious code seems to want to uninstall the environment it needs to run!!

Java code wanting to uninstall Java Runtime??

[Sysman]

I'd say the amateur hour is also on the code writer - since the malicious code seems to want to uninstall the environment it needs to run!!

Java code wanting to uninstall Java Runtime??

That had me wondering too.

Perhaps they are hoping you will reinstall an ancient version you have lying around on disk?

They could have been lying of course...

... or trying to point you at a dodgy version of Java to download