[Jaeger01]

I logged into the forums yesterday morning and picked up a "Trojan" called virusburster.exe. What a mess and the effort it took to clean it up. Just be very careful and "spyware/adware" programs are as necessary as anti-virus programs are.

Jaeger near Chicago

[cuckooroller]

Jaeger, where exactly (and I mean to describe where to your recollection - do not go back to the site)? The site owner should be advised of this as the site is a very good site and much used by many world birders.

[Andrew Rowlands]

Hi Jaeger,

I take it you meant to visit www.travellingbirder.com?

That seems to work fine - the mis-spelt site is a front for malware distribution.

Cheers,

Andy.

[Andrew Rowlands]

Just visited the forums at www.travellingbirder.com, there are some spammers using it - DON'T click on any links there unless you are sure of where it goes. If you do click a link and a download is offered, hit the Esc. key - these 'codec' downloads are Trojans.

I'm sure that these posts will be deleted, maybe it's time the site updated its joining methods to slow down the bots?

[Jaeger01]

Originally Posted by Andrew Rowlands

Hi Jaeger,

I take it you meant to visit www.travellingbirder.com?

That seems to work fine - the mis-spelt site is a front for malware distribution.

Cheers,

Andy.

Actually the mis-spelling was in my post. I visited the forums and that's where I picked up the trojan. I did drop an email to the owners.

Jaeger

[Andrew Rowlands]

Jaeger and everyone else who may be tempted into clicking links - please Bookmark and use LinkScanner http://linkscanner.explabs.com/linkscanner/ to test the link. It will be of some help under similar circumstances but don't completely rely on it, nothing is foolproof!

[ehrodz]

Don't updated antivirus and or spyware/adware programs keep trojans from invading one's computer?

[Jaeger01]

Originally Posted by ehrodz

Don't updated antivirus and or spyware/adware programs keep trojans from invading one's computer?

Not necessarily as I found out. I was running ZoneLabs firewall, spyware/adware and anti-virus and I still got it. I switched to Computer Associates EZTrust anti-virus and StopZilla spyware/adware blocker, cleaned it up and asked ZoneLabs for a refund which they granted.

Jaeger near Chicago

[deborah4]

Originally Posted by Andrew Rowlands

Jaeger and everyone else who may be tempted into clicking links - please Bookmark and use LinkScanner http://linkscanner.explabs.com/linkscanner/ to test the link. It will be of some help under similar circumstances but don't completely rely on it, nothing is foolproof!

Thanks Andy

Bookmarked as suggested and will keep page open when online to cut and paste url links and scan before opening

[Stewart J.]

Thanks for that Andy, bookmarked it

Stewart