MBS account manager high jacking virus

[Petit Chou]

My fiancee has a page that keeps re-appearing every night that she is on the net.

 

It locks onto her screen for ever increasing timed lengths of time and she cannot close it. It is from a company called MBS Accounts management and it says that she has agreed to a contract that entitles her to a months subscription to a sex passport site and for this priviledge it will charge her £19.99.

 

she have never agreed to any such contract or,to her knowledge visited their site. Therefore she I has no intention of paying.

 

Can someone advise on how to get rid? we have been told its spyware and others have had the same prob. Where is it from really? and how can we remove it?

[alternageek]

spyware.

 

Get adaware:

http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php

 

This will scan your entire drive and "quarantine" the bad things. It will also remove the files. Its very easy to follow its step by step instructions

 

Windows Defender:

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

 

You should always keep more than one spyware scanner on your computer as they generally dont always catch everything (though your first scan should catch that nasty bug) and its good to overlap

 

Make sure your anti-virus is also up to date. Sometimes these things make their way through trojans and slowly take over your machine. If you dont have anti-virus download the following:

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

 

AVG is free and easy to use.

 

Once youve done that and youre using Internet Explorer to browse the web, you might want to make the switch to another browser like firefox which has extensions that will prevent strange pop ups from showing up on your screen.

 

Good luck.

[Ann*]

What kerri said, plus a firewall.

 

Click on the link in my siggie if you want more choices.

[melthebell]

sounds a bit like a hijacker

 

spybot search and destroy gets rid of spyware AND has an anti hijacker section

[Petit Chou]

Thanks a lot for taking time out to answer my query. i have been on other forums and apparently the MBS thing is everywher, so beware eh? my fiancee was soooooo wound up cos it mentioned money y'know? She has a tight budget and works it very well, so you can imagine her horror at this hijacker demandin money!!!

 

Thank so much, shes done the scan and deleted 34 files!!!!! lets hope it doesnt come back. BUT......... where did it come from? and has it left a back door to her personal files etc?

 

Good night all, and thanks again, from both of us

[Ann*]

As for where it came from: it could have been carried on something that was downloaded (music, video, e-card etc.), or a dodgy website or pop-up was inadvertently opened.

 

It may be a good idea to add a pop-up blocker to the above list of security. I use the one that comes with Google toolbar, as well as XP's own, and hardly anything gets through those. If something does get through, don't click on it, just close it.

[Petit Chou]

Good morning Ann

 

Thanks for your additional info, and yes, downloads seem to be in the spot light. My fiancee does send e-cards frequently so that could be the source, I have also advised her of the problems I had when I attempted to download smiley central...pop-up's viruses (which were caught) and constant spam. However she also recieves and sends forwarded e-mails and I just wonder if thet could hide malware too?

 

Anyway, the MBS has been erased, seemingly, and additional security in force. Thank you for your info, have a great day!

 

Best wishes

[alternageek]

smiley central is badbadbad. those sites infect your computer with nasty things.

stay farfarfar away

[Petit Chou]

Yeh Kerri, NOW i know....i learnt the hard way and had to fdisk!!!

 

other sites too like, ecards and torrent sites....Im a lot wiser now, but many arent! And when this Hijacker came up, i hadn't seen anything like it.....my fiancee ran a scan last night with Mcaffee and it looked like it had gone.........but this morning, guess what????

 

So it would be easier for me to go to hers and fdisk the machine, rather than try to explain what to do methinks.

 

Thanks for "stoppin by"

[alternageek]

sorry i dindt mean to come across as lecturing

 

btw most torrent sites are safe and should be ad free. the only way to get something from the actual torrent is if the person who upped it added something fishy to the file.

http://www.mininova.org/ is a safe site.

 

have you ever thought about newsgroups as a way to dl your files?