frigin puk

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:02 pm

...luckily, Microsoft Security Essentials catches any potential threats from PUK straight away!

littlefeller · Post by **littlefeller** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:07 pm

no it doesnt, infact one of the viruses mimics the security essentials (opens a window exactly the same as the essentials window. if this happends do not click on it, not even the cancel, just navigate away then run a scan.

i have securitty essentials on mine, it got through and didnt show till i scaned

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:09 pm

littlefeller wrote:i have securitty essentials on mine, it got through and didnt show till i scaned

...oh

better scan mine when I get home then!

littlefeller · Post by **littlefeller** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:20 pm

i would have thought security essentials would pick it up when you switch your computer on. if you have logged into puk you should be fine. some trojans (most common type) wont actually do anything, they just hide there till you log onto a site where they came from, this then activates them. you can scan all you like but they wont appear till they get the ok to come alive. think i may have some kind of link attached to my computer so when i go into puk the file that generates these pop ups (which is hiding somewhere on my hard drive) generates another trojan. most are popups trying to get you to click on them, then the problems start. even if you have a window that looks like it has been generated by your own computer be very wary. they usuall give themselves away by listing multiply infection warnings (which is unlikelly as your essentials or anti virus would pick them up on start-up). i would like to know how popups get through my popup blocker

it was puk that gave me the ransom virus

cheers puk

Supermarine Blues · Post by **Supermarine Blues** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:05 pm

Now I come to think of it, I've had AVG warnings from there when I go back & find I'm not auto-logged in.

Sounds like a right forum-up to me.

Does that make SH Driver a Trojan arse?

Post by **Lude-dude** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:06 pm

im sure he's in many backdoors

Post by **rob quilter** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:51 pm

Lude-dude wrote:im sure he's in many backdoors

LMFAO!

JayJay · Post by **JayJay** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:36 pm

Malwarebytes is good. I somehow got a trojan (not sure where from, but I was trying to find specs for my TV and there were some... foreign sites), all of a sudden a fake PC scanner popped up! Shat myself.

MSE was turned off and wouldn't turn on, so I downloaded Malwarebytes and it caught it starting up again (I'd stopped the process), once it had it flagged it deleted the file. I'd recommend getting both of them. Restarted the computer and all seems well.

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:06 pm

the old stomping ground been taken over by the chav's then eh? ah well.

littlefeller · Post by **littlefeller** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:43 pm

no popups on the log in page, so if you go there first then should be ok. but why dont the popups hassle people who have logged in

furum up must sell the space to the popup pedlers with the understanding to leave its members alone, this would work as all the info put into puk by us is searchable via google and the such so would attract attention, very clever. they have sold out on you all.