Apr 20 2007
Infected PC
I was browsing a usenet indexer the other day when my PC became infected with a virus/malware/whatever. I was getting pop-ups (advertisements) saying my PC was infected and I should install a program to get rid of it. How ironic, I thought. After some searching, I learned I was hit by Vundo, a nasty little exploit. I cleaned out my TEMP folder, my internet cache files, etc, but that didn’t help. My search turned up a number of others who have been hit by the same thing. I got mine through browsing binsearch.info, a site I was able to trust until just now apparently.
Although I have since been able to get rid of the nasty little bugger, I was rather upset by the whole thing. I had been rather proud of the fact that I’ve not had problems like this in years. I hope binsearch gets their site/ads fixed, because I wouldn’t be surprised if others get infected by going there.
Hi James
I got hit by the same bug at the same site. How did you get rid of it?
I’ve tried a couple of AVP’s with no success.
How did you find my site, out of curiosity?
Read this:
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/13619
I googled “binsearch.info virus”.
Thanks for the link.
Really? I didn’t find my site anywhere. Oh well. Good luck with it all.
I’m sorry, it was a google/blog search:
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=binsearch.info%20virus&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&um=1&sa=N&tab=wb
Ahh, thanks for the link. The regular search didn’t turn up anything, so I was confused. I’ve never used the blog search tool.
Viruses…ugh…I’ve only had one in my entire life on the computer, but you can’t even practice safe-computing nowadays and not get one. It’s a shame 🙁 Glad you got your system cleaned up, though.