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Talya
 Post subject: Piracy > Viruses
PostPosted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:39 pm 
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My husband infected my computer with an insidious and brilliant scareware trojan. I love the irony of how I beat it.

Went and found a registration code/serial number for the scareware trojan, to trick it into thinking i'd paid it's $39.99 protection scheme money so it would fade into the background and let me work on removing it.

Serialz to the rescue!

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 Post subject: Re: Piracy > Viruses
PostPosted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:32 am 
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You hackZ0red the HackZ0Rez! :lol:
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 Post subject: Re: Piracy > Viruses
PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:43 am 
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Do you know how / where he managed to get it? My wife is notoriously good at finding these types of things too and I want to avoid them if at all possible.

It may be best to just PM me an answer as I rarely get to the site any more (something woke me up and I haven't gone back to sleep yet).

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 Post subject: Re: Piracy > Viruses
PostPosted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:19 am 
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Gorse wrote:
Do you know how / where he managed to get it? My wife is notoriously good at finding these types of things too and I want to avoid them if at all possible.

It may be best to just PM me an answer as I rarely get to the site any more (something woke me up and I haven't gone back to sleep yet).


he had no idea.

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 Post subject: Re: Piracy > Viruses
PostPosted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:44 pm 
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I could make a few guesses...
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 Post subject: Re: Piracy > Viruses
PostPosted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 6:06 am 
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Slythe wrote:
I could make a few guesses...


Meh. I've seen too many cases of this type of trojan show up at work, where web filters block most of the questionable sites, and nobody has any idea how they got it.

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Don't underestimate the potential for drive-by attacks by web ads.

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