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June 22nd 04, 05:42 PM
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Fake Windows Update?
Hi;
Friend of mine recently (I believe June16th or 17th) followed the prompt (little flashing icon in lower right of taskbar) to Upgrade his Windows XP. His firewall (Zonealarm) and antivirus (Northon AV) were immediately disabled. Now he is displaying all the symptoms of a rather severe viral infection: no AV, no firewall, can't browse (trying to get to Symantec) and more. At first, I considered it to be highly unlikely that the Windows Auto Upgrade could have been source of the problem, but then I checked around with other people using Windows XP and learned that none of them had recently been requested to Upgrade their versions. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Geoff 
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June 22nd 04, 07:41 PM
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Fake Windows Update?
Extremely unlikely any malware came from Windows Update.
Did he open a patch in Email claiming to be from Microsoft? http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/bogmail.htm Follow #1 thru #4 on this link to check for viruses and spywa http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/ "Geoff T" wrote in message ... Hi; Friend of mine recently (I believe June16th or 17th) followed the prompt (little flashing icon in lower right of taskbar) to Upgrade his Windows XP. His firewall (Zonealarm) and antivirus (Northon AV) were immediately disabled. Now he is displaying all the symptoms of a rather severe viral infection: no AV, no firewall, can't browse (trying to get to Symantec) and more. At first, I considered it to be highly unlikely that the Windows Auto Upgrade could have been source of the problem, but then I checked around with other people using Windows XP and learned that none of them had recently been requested to Upgrade their versions. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Geoff
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June 23rd 04, 06:42 PM
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Fake Windows Update?
Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
Extremely unlikely any malware came from Windows Update. Did he open a patch in Email claiming to be from Microsoft? http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/bogmail.htm Follow #1 thru #4 on this link to check for viruses and spywa http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm Windows update doesn't have malware, it just hijacks your IE browser. -- hermes DRM sux! Treacherous Computing kills our virtual civil liberties! http://www.redrival.com/protectfreedom/ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html http://anti-dmca.org/ http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/unintended_consequences.php Windows XP crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.
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June 23rd 04, 07:42 PM
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Fake Windows Update?
Interesting comment considering the malware at least one of the sites
you reference attempts to foist onto computers. Perhaps you should pay attention to the sites you seem to recommend so you can avoid being part of the very problem. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/ "hermes" wrote in message Windows update doesn't have malware, it just hijacks your IE browser. -- hermes DRM sux! Treacherous Computing kills our virtual civil liberties! http://www.redrival.com/protectfreedom/ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html http://anti-dmca.org/ http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/unintended_consequences.php Windows XP crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.
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June 24th 04, 06:41 PM
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Fake Windows Update?
Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
Interesting comment considering the malware at least one of the sites you reference attempts to foist onto computers. Perhaps you should pay attention to the sites you seem to recommend so you can avoid being part of the very problem. Ok then, that's fair. Can you suggest a better free hosting website then (other than angelfire, yahoo or geocities? -- hermes DRM sux! Treacherous Computing kills our virtual civil liberties! http://www.redrival.com/protectfreedom/ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html http://anti-dmca.org/ http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/unintended_consequences.php Windows XP crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.
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June 24th 04, 07:42 PM
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Fake Windows Update?
Look around.
Many ISPs provide free web space, does yours? Other than that look at websites that have few if no ads. Google may also help. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/ "hermes" wrote in message Ok then, that's fair. Can you suggest a better free hosting website then (other than angelfire, yahoo or geocities? -- hermes DRM sux! Treacherous Computing kills our virtual civil liberties! http://www.redrival.com/protectfreedom/ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html http://anti-dmca.org/ http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/unintended_consequences.php Windows XP crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.
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June 25th 04, 01:41 AM
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Fake Windows Update?
Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
Look around. Many ISPs provide free web space, does yours? Other than that look at websites that have few if no ads. Google may also help. Thanks for the excellent advice. See what you think now. http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/ -- hermes DRM sux! Treacherous Computing kills our virtual civil liberties! http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/index.html http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html http://anti-dmca.org/ http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/unintended_consequences.php Windows XP crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams
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