Re: Caution to Group Members Trojan from Yahoo Banner Advertisements I actually believe I received the trojan from a banner ad while setting up new book-marks for one of the radio/repeater Groups I frequent. A newly installed Kaspersky protection package on the other computer caught the %$(^*%& script.
I have nothing against the other protection programs... but I had McAfee, AVG, Norton, Ad Aware and a few others installed at various times and machines trying to help and no cigar (didn't work for me). I read a a lot of internet forum posts regarding this worm, learned about good results people were having with Kaspersky, installed the free demo package on a replacement windoz machine and went looking at old haunts when it tripped an alarm on a/the yahoo banner ad. Not fun, not good. You'll need to learn how to clean/remove the trojan with windoz in the safe mode as you'll find out it prevents many things from functioning. Worse case is the worm has a built in smtp (email) engine and will send your passwords and other information to some very bad people. Teaches me for getting away from Linux... back to a dual boot machine. s. > Mike/W5JR <w5jr.m...@...> wrote: > > I've spent the last 24 hours on this very issue. And I was on the yahoo site > yesterday. :( > > > Mike >
