tarantula store forum urgent announcement

[Phil Messenger]

please do not visit the tarantula store forum for the time being, it has been hacked and will try to infect your pc with a virus. will post here when we are on top of the situation and the problem is fixed.

[Mikhail F. Bagaturov]

Sorry my friend ((
It is f*ing bad time - my site was also hacked this weekend, they made a massive spam attack from my domain name, and authority blocks my server...

[Yinnon Dolev]

I have noticed!!!!

I was attacked by the virus - it's name is Download.Tojan.

My norther antivirus has detected it when it started downloading, but was unable to stop or contain it, but it has stoped it from further damaging the comp. However, it did locate it:

The virus was found the Local Setting\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\57BB9OQ


I have recently downloaded Windows Defender - this is a free beta version software that specilises in diffrent malwares and it seemed to do the trick of locating it.

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

[mary walters]

I wondered why my anti virus was blocking me getting in earlier.
Mary

[Graeme Wright]

Thank god for AVG it deleted the virus straight away

[Ian Metcalfe]

AVG seemed to handle it OK here . Am working on a fix for the site

[Phil Messenger]

AVG here detects it, but is unable to delete or move the infected file got another virus scanner on it now that seems to be doing the job, it's so far removed 3 files from my system that norton & AVG did not remove.
TS forum should be back up in around 24 hrs, the hacker has done a real job on us, ian is working on it now.

[Phil Rea]

I noticed this too. F-secure saved the day.

Good luck with fixing it Phil & Ian.

[Mark Davies]

It's given my 'pooter a right kicking. Been on it all night trying to sort it and still going (00:47)
Running AVG, which allerted me to it but couldnt do anything with it.
Been trying loads of different things but nothing really working.
If anyone finds a program that'll sort it, will they post a link here please?
Ta.

[Mike Shaw]

Hi guys try running a scan with ewido anti-malware.Free trial version but sure does the job.
Also thanx for the heads up.
cheers mike

[chid]

Hi,
I was out all last night so didnt get on the T.store so didnt get infected but
hope you sort it out quick Phil and ian .
chid

[Mikhail F. Bagaturov]

Hello!

Hope you'll fix the problem asap!
Good luck with it.

At least now the site is unavailable and npbody would infected... as well as mine, so...
But I still dunno when mine would back

[Adam Walters]

Hi guys,

First, update any virus/anti-spyware etc. programs via the net.

Then try booting into safe mode (press 'F8' during startup), and then running your virus/spyware scans from there.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Adam.

[Catherine Procter]

For those of you having trouble getting rid of the virus. Try http://forums.majorgeeks.com/ Their support forum gives specific advice and help on getting rid of trogans and viruses. It really helped me a few weeks back when I had trogans on my computer that Mcafee couldn't get rid of.

May give a few pointers on what to do.

[Ian Metcalfe]

Another great day for the information super highway