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Blerg.
My computer BSOD'd today. I figured it was iTunes because "everyone knows" it sucks and BSODs non-Apple computers. Well, it turns out to have been a vicious virus thing. It spoofed my google searches so I didn't think it was anything serious.
I was in an IM window and listed off all the weird cryptic process names in the task manager and my SO said, "Wait. wfdmgr that's EVIL." He sent me a link and the link, when clicked said it's part of WMP 10. When he viewed the link it said, "trojan/worm". So I viewed it from his mac and it says "windows media player 10". But I don't use windows media player (only 9 came with my computer and I refused to allow it to update that) so I figured I should delete it. Shift-deleted the file, created a text file in the same place, renamed it to exe and set the attrib flags to +R +H +S (which basically says you have to be admin to alter the file).
Then I searched the Registry to make sure it wasn't in the secret hidden "run on startup" menu. (Just so you know, I fucking hate that they hide that. HKLM/software/microsoft/windows/current version/run I swear there should be a desktop icon that says, "LOOK HERE!" and goes directly to the regedit of that folder.)
Oh. and this was behind 3 firewalls, with Zone Alarm, AVG (with updated definitions as of yesterday), and Ad Aware all running. (Those are so redundant that they complain about each other.) So I have absolutely no idea where my computer got this from. The (non-spoofed) sites suggest it comes from opening email attachments. But I use web-email and don't open attachments from unknown people. (I don't get many attachments at all, though a lot of mail is HTML based, that's not the same thing, and again, not from strangers.)
I don't see the point of having really fucking annoying antivirus provisions (they CONSTANTLY complain about each other, Zone Alarm loathes AVG) if it doesn't do any good at stopping the viruses.
I'm going to go buy a fucking mac.
But then again, the mac on the adjacent desk is running a spoofed google, so who knows what's going on.
My head hurts and I didn't get any laundry done because I've been doing this for hours. I think it's pretty damned ironic that computer viruses are usually trojans since that's a brand of condoms meant to prevent the spread of viruses and parasites.
My computer BSOD'd today. I figured it was iTunes because "everyone knows" it sucks and BSODs non-Apple computers. Well, it turns out to have been a vicious virus thing. It spoofed my google searches so I didn't think it was anything serious.
I was in an IM window and listed off all the weird cryptic process names in the task manager and my SO said, "Wait. wfdmgr that's EVIL." He sent me a link and the link, when clicked said it's part of WMP 10. When he viewed the link it said, "trojan/worm". So I viewed it from his mac and it says "windows media player 10". But I don't use windows media player (only 9 came with my computer and I refused to allow it to update that) so I figured I should delete it. Shift-deleted the file, created a text file in the same place, renamed it to exe and set the attrib flags to +R +H +S (which basically says you have to be admin to alter the file).
Then I searched the Registry to make sure it wasn't in the secret hidden "run on startup" menu. (Just so you know, I fucking hate that they hide that. HKLM/software/microsoft/windows/current version/run I swear there should be a desktop icon that says, "LOOK HERE!" and goes directly to the regedit of that folder.)
Oh. and this was behind 3 firewalls, with Zone Alarm, AVG (with updated definitions as of yesterday), and Ad Aware all running. (Those are so redundant that they complain about each other.) So I have absolutely no idea where my computer got this from. The (non-spoofed) sites suggest it comes from opening email attachments. But I use web-email and don't open attachments from unknown people. (I don't get many attachments at all, though a lot of mail is HTML based, that's not the same thing, and again, not from strangers.)
I don't see the point of having really fucking annoying antivirus provisions (they CONSTANTLY complain about each other, Zone Alarm loathes AVG) if it doesn't do any good at stopping the viruses.
I'm going to go buy a fucking mac.
But then again, the mac on the adjacent desk is running a spoofed google, so who knows what's going on.
My head hurts and I didn't get any laundry done because I've been doing this for hours. I think it's pretty damned ironic that computer viruses are usually trojans since that's a brand of condoms meant to prevent the spread of viruses and parasites.
