watch out for WINDOWS RECOVERY VIRUSfrom ecig site or ecig utube videos!!!!!

[alongo]

I keep getting this windows recovery virus, has infected 2 computer. The only places I,ve been is this forum, trusted vendors from this site and utube to watch ecig videos. Its a nasty virus that acts like its scanning your computer, then wants you to pay to get it removed, I can get rid of it with webroot and malware but it keeps coming back. Just a heads up. Als

 

[joeman]

Yes it got mine at work. Bummer! I should have known better. Wiped my pc clean!!

 

[ricks]

Whats this about? Can this be confirmed.

 

[Grammie]

See this thread for more information: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/computer-security/182372-might-malware-problem.html

 

[Mariusica]

I use an MacBook pro, iPhone and iPad with no issues at all.

 

[txtumbleweed]

It has got me three times. I had three trojans on mine and just got rid of them. I had to restore and scan.

 

[FenderMetalheade]

I had a antivirus alert pop up when i hit the forum earlier today. Not to mention the one that kept popping up a week or two ago. This forum is a hacker magnet. Not sure why?

 

[DarthSnoopyFish]

What browsers are you all who got infected using? If you are using IE just stop it!! lol. Firefox or Chrome are your best bet. Chrome is your best'est bet.

 

[MitchellBeans]

The other day my Kaspersky popped up with warnings about this site. It seems, at least for a while, the web code was injected with malicious items.

I would tell everyone to get a decent antivirus solution, no matter your platform. For Windows, I would say Avast, Microsoft Security Essentials and Kaspersky are king. Do not bother with AVG, Avira, Norton or McAffe ... as far as the Mac users .. well, security by obscurity I suppose... and I guess there is still someone who uses Linux, in which case they already have 12 images a day as backup and will recompile the kernel in the off chance someone bothered targetting them.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Got me too, had to restore. It takes away your desktop. They forgot to take away the help section though so you can restore through there... it's a nasty deal but you can get through it...

 

[MitchellBeans]

What browsers are you all who got infected using? If you are using IE just stop it!! lol. Firefox or Chrome are your best bet. Chrome is your best'est bet.

Its not IE these days ... those days are gone, the ones of Active X exploits.

 

[AttyPops]

1) I don't use Java (if you need it sometimes, you can disable the add ins it if you aren't using it at the moment)
2) I use an add blocker (ECF won't/can't really suggest that)
3) I use anti-virus software updated several times a day and hardware firewalls

Haven't seen any popups or AV warnings. Any history on what the messages are that are popping up??????? Curious minds want to know.

 

[cookiebun]

Crap. I let my anti-virus expire in February.
Using Firefox on high security settings. Most Java won't run.
Guess I'll install Avast tomorrow.

 

[Winkos]

My security has alerted me twice when I came to this site. I quarentined two malwares.

 

[alongo]

sorry i'm not the only one that had this problem. It's a pain in the.... not sure where its coming from, just updated all protection maybe it won' t happen again. Good luck, it's a bugger to get r4id of.

 

[Alex]

It is directly targeting Windows users on MSIE 6, 7, or 8 with Java enabled...

It's currently not on the site, (I've removed it twice already)

We are also actively scanning so I will be able to proactively remove it. Our server admin has also tighten down the security of the servers.

 

[Sdh]

If you have to run internet explorer-run it on the setting (no add-ons). I am using firefox now. I had the windows restore virus and it was hell. However, I was running IE and I am sure Java was not updated. I did not obtain my infection from this forum. It was a ecig forum on facebook.

 

[oldsoldier]

.alexsnack

Yay Alex

 

[36tinybells]

I have BitDefender and I wondered why it had notified me more than usual that it was handling stuff. Good to know it's doing the job!

 

[Majestic]

The other day my Kaspersky popped up with warnings about this site. It seems, at least for a while, the web code was injected with malicious items.

I would tell everyone to get a decent antivirus solution, no matter your platform. For Windows, I would say Avast, Microsoft Security Essentials and Kaspersky are king. Do not bother with AVG, Avira, Norton or McAffe ... as far as the Mac users .. well, security by obscurity I suppose... and I guess there is still someone who uses Linux, in which case they already have 12 images a day as backup and will recompile the kernel in the off chance someone bothered targetting them.

I can't speak highly of MS Security Essentials, I was using it the other day on my laptop when I got infected with the Windows Recovery virus. I'm currently trying out Avast. The Sandbox option looks promising for running suspicious apps.