Posted:
#1
CT,
Prepare to be questioned numerous amounts of times on this AV Security 2012 scareware crap....
I just got it on my comp - and it was acquired via Covers.com
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AV Security 2012
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Posted:
#3
Quote Originally Posted by GiLmo574:
CT,
Prepare to be questioned numerous amounts of times on this AV Security 2012 scareware crap....
I just got it on my comp - and it was acquired via Covers.com
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I have been warning them for weeks about this. I have begun using Ad Blocking software now for this site because it is unsafe to do otherwise.
Posted:
#4
Quote Originally Posted by pa_picks:
I have been warning them for weeks about this. I have begun using Ad Blocking software now for this site because it is unsafe to do otherwise.
I know - I've been reading your inquiries.
For others reading to beat this problem - goto malwarebytes.org and install the latest version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
I'm working on the fix now - will update after. 
Posted:
#11
"If you have been receiving virus warnings while browsing Covers, it could be related to an information-sniffing virus (PWS:Win32/Fareit.gen!C) present on your system.
NOTE: This virus did not originate from Covers! It must be downloaded and installed on your system manually.
If your anti-virus gets triggered while browsing Covers, it could be due to the fact that we have passwords on our site and this is an information-sniffing virus.
For more information, please go to this link:
https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?
NOTE: This virus did not originate from Covers! It must be downloaded and installed on your system manually.
If your anti-virus gets triggered while browsing Covers, it could be due to the fact that we have passwords on our site and this is an information-sniffing virus.
For more information, please go to this link:
https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?
Winning Starts Here
Posted:
#12
Hey, Covers-Team - here's a funny one for you & your team....
Can you/somebody/whomever - find out WHY my Sportsook is "B-Radddddddd"
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View Space | Blog | Friends | Playbook | My Sportsbook: B-radddddddd |
Posted:
#13
Quote Originally Posted by tinfoils:
Got that Security 2012 crap yesterday and I had 4-5 screens opening while trying to connect to the net. Had to give up and buy another computer. Been trying to restore my old puter to no avail.
Tinski
Bummer. Sorry to hear that. I'm still under attack as well.... don't have time to really fix the issue until this weekend.
Revert to my Posts #4 and #5 - they worked out OK for me...
Posted:
#14
Quote Originally Posted by GiLmo574:
Hey, Covers-Team - here's a funny one for you & your team....
Can you/somebody/whomever - find out WHY my Sportsook is "B-Radddddddd"
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View Space | Blog | Friends | Playbook | My Sportsbook: B-radddddddd |
Hey Gilmo,
Have you tried switching it back?
Posted:
#15
Quote Originally Posted by weeble5672:
Hey Gilmo,
Have you tried switching it back?
YepYup - it's not even an option for the MY SPORTSBOOK section when editing my CoversSpace.
It's cool, though. I'm the only one @ Covers rockin' B-Raddddddd Sportsbook...
I just don't understand HOW it got changed to this when it's not a valid Sportsbook.
Weebz
Posted:
#16
Quote Originally Posted by Covers-Team:
"If you have been receiving virus warnings while browsing Covers, it could be related to an information-sniffing virus (PWS:Win32/Fareit.gen!C) present on your system.
NOTE: This virus did not originate from Covers! It must be downloaded and installed on your system manually.
If your anti-virus gets triggered while browsing Covers, it could be due to the fact that we have passwords on our site and this is an information-sniffing virus.
For more information, please go to this link:
https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?
"If you have been receiving virus warnings while browsing Covers, it could be related to an information-sniffing virus (PWS:Win32/Fareit.gen!C) present on your system.
NOTE: This virus did not originate from Covers! It must be downloaded and installed on your system manually.
If your anti-virus gets triggered while browsing Covers, it could be due to the fact that we have passwords on our site and this is an information-sniffing virus.
For more information, please go to this link:
https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?
CT, the vast majority of the people here aren't just getting warnings of viruses, they are getting viruses themselves! I got nailed with a re-direct virus as well as that fake anti-virus software virus.
I really hope you guys can figure out what's going on here... this is really bad.
Posted:
#17
Quote Originally Posted by kaponofor3:
CT, the vast majority of the people here aren't just getting warnings of viruses, they are getting viruses themselves! I got nailed with a re-direct virus as well as that fake anti-virus software virus.
I really hope you guys can figure out what's going on here... this is really bad.
CT, the vast majority of the people here aren't just getting warnings of viruses, they are getting viruses themselves! I got nailed with a re-direct virus as well as that fake anti-virus software virus.
I really hope you guys can figure out what's going on here... this is really bad.
exactly and that fake anti-virus one is a damn bitch to get rid of
Posted:
#18
Quote Originally Posted by kaponofor3:
CT, the vast majority of the people here aren't just getting warnings of viruses, they are getting viruses themselves! I got nailed with a re-direct virus as well as that fake anti-virus software virus.
I really hope you guys can figure out what's going on here... this is really bad.
CT, the vast majority of the people here aren't just getting warnings of viruses, they are getting viruses themselves! I got nailed with a re-direct virus as well as that fake anti-virus software virus.
I really hope you guys can figure out what's going on here... this is really bad.
I speak from prior personal experience when I say that those kind of viruses are downloaded from somewhere. They remain dormant until a specific kind of site is viewed. Then they go into action. I won't say the fix was easy for me but, if you search the Net, you'll be able to find the necessary steps to rid yourself of such a thing.
That said, it appears that the Covers site is triggering SOMETHING and causing this virus to become active.
I'm sure the IT department is working on some sort of solution.
Posted:
#19
Quote Originally Posted by kaponofor3:
CT, the vast majority of the people here aren't just getting warnings of viruses, they are getting viruses themselves! I got nailed with a re-direct virus as well as that fake anti-virus software virus.
I really hope you guys can figure out what's going on here... this is really bad.
Yea. It's something... and something pretty vicious.
When my virus happened - my sportsbook was changed to B-Radddddddddd Sportsbook.
So... yea.... it's something.... 
Posted:
#20
Here's something I found that might explain things a bit further:
A lot of times, you will be surfing websites that you normally go to without problems. The rogue virus developers have designed it so that it will pop up and alert you that the site you’re visiting has a problem. OR, it will tell you that your computer is already infected. And most people click this popup without really thinking about it, because it looks like a real antivirus program. This can especially happen if you have children or other people in your household that aren’t familiar with your antivirus software. The fake antivirus virus looks so official that most people click it out of habit.
A lot of times, you will be surfing websites that you normally go to without problems. The rogue virus developers have designed it so that it will pop up and alert you that the site you’re visiting has a problem. OR, it will tell you that your computer is already infected. And most people click this popup without really thinking about it, because it looks like a real antivirus program. This can especially happen if you have children or other people in your household that aren’t familiar with your antivirus software. The fake antivirus virus looks so official that most people click it out of habit.
Of course once you click the fake antivirus popup, it will begin to do its dirty work. You’ve essentially given it permission to override your real antivirus, and by then it’s too late. It really isn’t your antivirus program that’s the problem. It’s just that this virus is super sneaky, and it knows how to trick you into installing it.
Sometimes the fake antivirus program is attached to other things, like toolbars, or javascript. So you might give it permission to install itself that way too, and never know that you did it. A lot of viruses are spread that way. Even though virus protection is getting more sophisticated, so are the hackers. They will trick you into installing their viruses in one way or another!
Posted:
#21
they caught people who spread it
Six Estonians and a Russian were charged Wednesday with infecting computers, including NASA machines, with malware as part of an online advertising scam that reaped at least $14 million.
The Internet fraud, which took place between 2007 and October 2011, involved redirecting users searching for websites such as iTunes, Netflix and even the US tax collection agency to other sites.
The six Estonians -- Vladimir Tsastsin, 31, Timur Gerassimenko, 31, Dmitri Jegorov, 33, Valeri Aleksejev, 31, Konstantin Poltev, 28, and Anton Ivanov, 26, -- were arrested in Estonia on Tuesday and the United States will seek their extradition, US officials said.
Andrey Taame of Russia, 31, remains at large.
According to the indictment unsealed by the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, the seven engaged in a "massive and sophisticated scheme that infected at least four million computers located in over 100 countries."
Around 500,000 of the infected computers were in the United States, according to the indictment, and at least 10 belonged to the US space agency NASA.
The indictment said the group engaged in "click hijacking fraud," by directing the user of an infected computer who clicks on a search result to a website different than the one they wanted.
A search for the website of the US tax collection agency at www.irs.gov would reroute a user, for example, to the website of a tax preparation service, generating a payment to the defendants under an advertising contract.
"These defendants gave new meaning to the term 'false advertising,'" US Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.
"They were international cyber bandits who hijacked millions of computers at will and rerouted them to Internet websites and advertisements of their own choosing -- collecting millions in undeserved commissions for all the hijacked computer clicks and Internet ads they fraudulently engineered."
The arrests were the result of a two-year investigation by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation code-named "Operation Ghost Click" that involved the cooperation of the authorities in Estonia and the Netherlands.
The seven were each charged with five counts of computer intrusion and wire fraud, crimes which can draw sentences of between five and 30 years in prison.
Tsastsin was also charged with 22 counts of money laundering.
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