Trojan horses! Hififorsale.com / audiophilecandy.com

Folks - be careful - just tried to navigate to www.hififorsale.com and audiophilecandy.com and immediately got warning messages from Norton Anti-Virus telling me files from these sites downloaded to my temporary internet cache were infected with a trojan horse.
Be careful out there!

 

Are you sure its not just a relatively benign adware tracking cookie? I hate the idea of these things, but they are not dangerous and programs like Ad-Aware 6 will shift them off your system.

Tony.

 

I've been looking at these sites regularly for years and never had this before.
Any resident AV experts around to investigate?

 

It is a Trojan horse and is successfully trapped by Symantec realtime scan

 

Does Symantec tell you what the virus its called? Has anyone complained to Audiophile Candy yet?

Tony.

 

I think the disgusting people who do this sort of thing deserve to have their fingers removed.
Its immoral.

 

Talking about virus... Latelly my portable, once in a while, kind of shatters the letters, and graphics to less extent, and locks...

If I do alt-ctrl-del it restarts with the same problem, if I switch it off it restarts ok, ran the McAfee virus scan, and nothing found, I have the up-to-date VirusScan...

Any ideas what is going on...

 

Looks like the sites have gone offline at present.

 

Yes - looks like they're dealing with it. FYI, I visit those sites frequently and have had Norton AntiVirus for a long time and it's never warned me before so it must be a recent problem, probably as a result of a hack.

António, your problem sounds like a hardware or graphics card driver issue. Only thing I can suggest is check that you have the latest drivers.

Michael.

 

This is really quite worrying! Strangely coincidental though, how this and the Beastie Boys CD issue have arisen in the same week.

Thanks for letting us know Michael

 

If only I knew how to do that...

Thanks Michael, is the missus ok ?

 

Lowrider, assuming your on a windows platform go to the Control Panel and select the Display section. Once into your display settings select the tab for your graphics card, in my case I have a tab with the Nvidia logo and the name/model of my card. Once youy've seleceted this tab you should get a window listing the details of your card i.e how much memory it has etc. you should also see on this tab a section under a heading such as Driver Version Information which will list the various .dlls that your card is using and their version number. It should then be a simple case of checking these numbers against the latest versions on your card vendors site. Hope that makes sense, if not ask and I'll help if I can.

BL21DE3

 

Thanks,

I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600, does that apply...

 

Lowrider, from what I can gather that model of laptop uses a Trident XP graphics chip. So my instructions for determining the driver version should still work. Once you've determined the driver version, your first stop should be the Trident website to see if they've released updated drivers for the chip. After that try Toshiba's website for any updated drivers. Hope that helps.

BL21DE3

P.S I found this link with a variety of display drivers for Trident chipsets, it might have what you're looking for http://www.opendrivers.com/company/11638/Trident.html

 

Thanks again,

I only found one driver for this video board, but it is from IBM for their portables, I think it wont work with my Toshiba, right...

 

Antonio, there's nothing newer on the toshiba site than december 01, but it's worth a shot.

i had a 4300 not so long ago so i know my way around the tosh site pretty well

click me <-- just put your info on that page, will give you updates for everything.

 

The whole site is down now

 

Lowrider,

It may very well work. You can do two things:
1) email the website where you found the driver and ask

OR, if you are feeling a bit brave :MILD:

2) create a restore point in your system (so that you can recover
back to that point if the driver doesn't work) and install that driver.
it may work and your problem is solved. if it doesn't, you'll have to
restore the system to your previous restore point.

if the driver change doesn't do it, and things don't change at all,
i'd say you have a bigger virus working... Windows itself! :JPS:

:beer:
Jack

 

Not sure if this is a coincidence, but have a look at something i read today:

http://isc.sans.org/diary.php

It may not be related, but if it is, there may be other websites with the same or similar problems...

b*stards! :chair: :chainsaw:

Jack

 

Brave, who, me...

I have no idea how to create a restore point, I will wait and see, hope I can make a backup soon, my CD recorder is broken...