John P
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| posted on 11/6/14 at 06:55 PM |
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GameOver Zeus botnet and Cryptolocker
I keep hearing about possible problems with the above and today even got an e-mail from EE about the issues.
I'm still running Windows XP and relying on the free version of Avast although I do also run Malwarebyses AntiMalware and Spybot regularly.
Should I do anything else prior to 15th June?
John.
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bi22le
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| posted on 11/6/14 at 07:38 PM |
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Dont go on Russian porn sites. . . . . . .Again!!
Track days ARE the best thing since sliced bread, until I get a supercharger that is!
Please read my ring story:
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/13/viewthread.php?tid=139152&page=1
Me doing a sub 56sec lap around Brands Indy. I need a geo set up! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHksfvIGB3I
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britishtrident
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| posted on 11/6/14 at 07:56 PM |
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There has been a lot of dangerous malware emails on the the go the last 6 months, the danger bit is the attachment.
Two law firms my wife works for have been hit, one has a continuing spambot problem the other had a near miss when money was taken from an account
and only just stopped in time.
These scamwares all work by false authority syndrome no matter how respectable or official the sender may seem if you are not expecting an email
don't open any attachments or better still don't open the email.
My own email is screened by the hosting company for my web domain and the mail is downloaded by Thunderbird through a K9 a filtering proxy server
running on my on PC.
K9 is set to use the spamhaus black list and my own private white list and black list.
The few that get through the hosting company filters are usually caught by K9 and tagged
In addition the junk filters on Thunderbird are set up not to down load and automatically delete any mail which have the top level domains of former
Easters block countries, Brazil, Nigeria, Thailand and other malware hot spots contained anywhere in the email header.
Together with a paid for Avira anti-malware it seems to work.
[Edited on 11/6/14 by britishtrident]
[Edited on 11/6/14 by britishtrident]
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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jeffw
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| posted on 11/6/14 at 09:53 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by John P
I keep hearing about possible problems with the above and today even got an e-mail from EE about the issues.
I'm still running Windows XP and relying on the free version of Avast although I do also run Malwarebyses AntiMalware and Spybot regularly.
Should I do anything else prior to 15th June?
John.
You obviously are not that concerned about security if you are using an un-supported OS and a free AV scanner. What has EE sent you? Is it an email
saying your IP is part of the Botnet that the US has taken the command and control over?
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ashg
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| posted on 12/6/14 at 05:42 AM |
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Simple solution backup! And don't do stupid things like download unknown files on your computer that also stores your life from the year dot.
I use my laptop for general surfing and my desktop for less internet related stuff. Everything is backed up to my nas then my nas auto backup's
to a USB HDD at regular intervals.
Anything With Tits or Wheels Will cost you MONEY!!
Haynes Roadster (Finished)
Exocet (Finished & Sold)
New Project (Started)
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McLannahan
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| posted on 12/6/14 at 06:38 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by jeffw
quote:
Originally posted by John P
I keep hearing about possible problems with the above and today even got an e-mail from EE about the issues.
I'm still running Windows XP and relying on the free version of Avast although I do also run Malwarebyses AntiMalware and Spybot regularly.
Should I do anything else prior to 15th June?
John.
You obviously are not that concerned about security if you are using an un-supported OS and a free AV scanner. What has EE sent you? Is it an email
saying your IP is part of the Botnet that the US has taken the command and control over?
Bit of a assumption Jeff that he's not concerned about it. He did post asking for advice so clearly is concerned. His older kit may be limited
by finance rather than lack of concern.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 12/6/14 at 07:52 AM |
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Plan B could be to dump XP and move onto a less vulnerable system - Mac (if that's your thing) or Linux.
I use Linux Mint, which is free and can be tested on your own system without removing XP - you just load it onto a DVD and run from that. It's
a bit slow, but you can see how it works and decide if it's what you want before committing yourself. It comes with a complete MS Office
equivalent (LibreOffice) that can read all of the MS file types, plus there are a load of free and high quality applications to download.
It all depends on whether you have any applications that can only run on Windoze - I have 1 or 2, and I keep MS Vista on a laptop so that I can deal
with those. Otherwise, all my work is on Linux.
One course of action you can consider is to take out the hard disk with XP on it, and put in a blank one (e.g. one from ebay). Load Linux Mint onto
that and see what you think of it when it's running at its full speed. If you like it, leave that hard disk in place - if you don't, just
swap them back. This is what I do with my laptop: normally it has the Vista hard disk installed, but I load another drive when I want to try out a
new Linux version.
If your machine is a bit old and tired, consider trying Linux Mint Xfce - it's a lean and mean version that's been written to use less
resources, so runs quicker on older machines (but see note below). Otherwise just download Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon from the
Linux home page, burn it onto a DVD and have a play!
Note: Mint have just released version 17, so the Xfce version isn't available at the moment - due to arrive shortly. They wanted to get the 2
main versions (Cinnamon and Mate) out first before doing the flavours.
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John P
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| posted on 12/6/14 at 09:43 AM |
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Actually I am concerned but it looks like my hardware won't run Windows 7 (I'm not in a position to buy a new PC) and I also have an early
version of AutoCAD LT which I use fairly regularly but isn't compatible with Windows 7.
I would be happy to pay for a reliable anti-virus programme but apart from Avast those I've tried, including AVG and Norton, cause my old
hardware to be almost unusable.
I was using Microsoft Security Essentials which was fine but is also not supported now which is what prompted the change to Avast.
John.
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onenastyviper
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| posted on 12/6/14 at 10:53 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by John P
Actually I am concerned but it looks like my hardware won't run Windows 7 (I'm not in a position to buy a new PC) and I also have an early
version of AutoCAD LT which I use fairly regularly but isn't compatible with Windows 7.
I would be happy to pay for a reliable anti-virus programme but apart from Avast those I've tried, including AVG and Norton, cause my old
hardware to be almost unusable.
I was using Microsoft Security Essentials which was fine but is also not supported now which is what prompted the change to Avast.
John.
A potential solution - swap hard drives and install linux mint. You can then download Draftsight for Linux for free and I think it is just as good as
autocad lt.
"If I knew what I was doing then it wouldn't be called research would it?...duh!"
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DW100
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| posted on 12/6/14 at 11:09 AM |
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The millennium bug is going to bring the world to an end!!!!!
Oh wait no it didn't 
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mcerd1
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| posted on 12/6/14 at 12:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by John P
today even got an e-mail from EE about the issues.
who says that wasn't a spam e-mail with a virus in an attachment ?
a lot of people have been tricked into opening an attachment on a 'genuine looking' e-mail that said something like 'click here to
protect from virus X for free' and in reality by clicking on it you've just given yourself that virus
the favourite e-mails of scammers at the moment are the ones pretending to be from various banks and HMRC
one of the guys at my work clicked on an HMRC one and we got cryptolocker on the server - we had backups of everything, but thanks to the worlds most
useless IT support company (TSG) I lost a weeks worth of otherwise unaffected work 
the only virus I ever had on one of my own machines was one that was embedded in a doggy codec for a video (given to me on a CD by a mate who it
turned out didn't know it was on it)
luckily it was just an annoying one that slowly filled up all the free space on the hard drive
[Edited on 12/6/2014 by mcerd1]
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 12/6/14 at 02:37 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by onenastyviper
A potential solution - swap hard drives and install linux mint. You can then download Draftsight for Linux for free and I think it is just as good as
autocad lt.
Roughly what I said earlier on! 
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