Virus Alert / Spyware

Hi, 

I am not familar with viruses and spyware. But I am not sure if this would be helpful information for FOD. If not then sorry to waste forum space.

There is an advertisment on FOD that loads either a virus or spyware program on computers. I am not sure if you might want to consider filtering out this website.

Here is some additional information:

My Bitdefender discovered the following, I again, do not know what it is:::

Exploit.HTML.codebase.Exec.Gen

From the following ad and website:

http://www.my-mobile.ws/index.htm

or

http://www.my-mobile.ws.

 

I do not know how the ads work, so...just thought I'd try to give some information in the case  that it was useful.

It only happens when this pop up ad occurs.

averagenetperson

My Bitdefender discovered the following, I again, do not know what it is:::

Exploit.HTML.codebase.Exec.Gen



I got the same thing!!  What does this mean?? Is this some type of Adware or something or did an individual hack into my computer?  Kind of freaking me out!  :(

Thanks.

supeeer

You can clear the spyware by 1 of these programs:
WinAntiSpyware
install at www.winantispyware.com
SpywareBlaster 3.3
Spyware Doctor



GOOD LUCK!!!

Helper supeeer

stupid767676

I have had the same exact stuff.

Beppe

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I agree with you 100%, it would be a help if FoD blocked such content. Alas, it's not the case as they need the revenue from the advertisers.

srs073181

OP

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Thanks Beppe for making things a little more clearer for me :o) You are good at this stuff, I know nothing. But learn something from ya all the time.

Yea, I know I agree to the terms of a website. I really don't have a personal issue with it, because my computer detects it right away. 

I just wanted to let FOD know of the vulnerability, in case they cared. If not then, well, I dunno :-) Just sharing useless information I suppose, lol. 

Thanks beppe.

Beppe

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From McAfee (similar problem):



This is a generic detection of malware which tries to exploit a Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerability, which was discovered February 25, 2002. This exploit could result in an executable file being run without the user's permission or knowledge, when visiting a web page or viewing HTML email message. This affects Internet Explorer 4.x and higher, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Outlook Express. 

This vulnerability has incorrectly been called the "Popup Object Vulnerabilty", the "Data Source Object Vulnerability", the "XMLid Exploit", or the "DynHTML Exploit" but these are just the methods to insert the exploit into the HTML. The vulnerability occurs because Internet Explorer allows HTML in the "Internet Zone" to launch programs in the "My Computer Zone".

In this case it looks as if the spyware company is trying to find a way against you protecting yourself from it. This is the argument against the morality of spyware - it's not illegal if they are not using the holes in the OS to cause any actual damage, but it's very intrusive. Unfortunately we agree to the advertising when we agree to the terms and conditions of the site.