Virus Alert to Mega-upload users!
To anyone who uses the Mega Upload site.
There appears to be a particularly nasty Trojan installer virus embedded within a JavaScript (JRE Runtime) pop-up ad. I hit the site twice just to be sure.
Type: Trojan/Fake-loader
Source code: Javascript, JRE Runtime platform
Info: It installs 2 component fake 'programs' including a system defragmenter and something called ThinkPoint (hotfix.exe)
Symptoms: Makes you believe your machine is failing. Says there are memory resource errors, no more disk space, hard disk failures (including corrupt sectors)
Target folders: (Windows users) User\AppData\Local\Temp
Solution: Disable System restore, boot into safe mode, clean using Malware Bytes and follow-up with your most current anti-virus scan.
Unfortunately I stumbled upon this a few hours ago and have spent all this time cleaning my machine. This one is a bad one folks. Spread the word!
You can find MalwareBytes at the following website: http://www.malwarebytes.org/
It is some kick-ass software folks! Will get stuff when other programs don't.
There appears to be a particularly nasty Trojan installer virus embedded within a JavaScript (JRE Runtime) pop-up ad. I hit the site twice just to be sure.
Type: Trojan/Fake-loader
Source code: Javascript, JRE Runtime platform
Info: It installs 2 component fake 'programs' including a system defragmenter and something called ThinkPoint (hotfix.exe)
Symptoms: Makes you believe your machine is failing. Says there are memory resource errors, no more disk space, hard disk failures (including corrupt sectors)
Target folders: (Windows users) User\AppData\Local\Temp
Solution: Disable System restore, boot into safe mode, clean using Malware Bytes and follow-up with your most current anti-virus scan.
Unfortunately I stumbled upon this a few hours ago and have spent all this time cleaning my machine. This one is a bad one folks. Spread the word!
You can find MalwareBytes at the following website: http://www.malwarebytes.org/
It is some kick-ass software folks! Will get stuff when other programs don't.