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Posted by jk: Wed Jul 18th, 2012 06:34

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Please can everyone note that there is some malware popups that have been reported to me. See below.

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Subject: Scam on iPhone invading us

Apple® iPhone 4-S

Several times I have logged in and with out warning a notice pops up asking if I would like to win an iPhone4 see above. If (like I fool I did) you click on it it sends a message to your mobile phone and locks you into a chargeable £24 a week added to your mobile phone bill to enter a so called weekly draw for an iPhone4s.

It is a serious known scam and my O2 phone provider told me to text them back entering a code: 60699 I did this and at once got a text back advising me "you have now unsubscribed from this service" No problems since.

BUT: I am still getting the message up usually when I am in the middle of a session on our web site. I do not see this message in any other place. When it comes up and you click on it you are into the scam at once you can only get out of it by going off line at once. Do not be fooled into giving them your mobile phone no like I did because that is how the scam traps you.

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I guess that this may be Windows or Internet Explorer related trojan but I dont know but can say I have never see this on my Mac or Linux machine. I dont run Windows these days so I cant say more on that front.

If it is a Windows/IE thing then you should be able to get rind of the trojan.
However it may be that you just need to turn off popups in your browser.

If it is a trojan and it sounds like it to me.
So if it keeps occurring, the Trojan has a hook that looks for people to put in their mobile number.
If you give it your mobile phone number then you will need to contact your service provider and ask for help as they will need to block that number to your service others this will continue to cost you.

If you download and run SpyBot this will identify potential problems on your machine but you may need to run a ****tail of malware programs. Windows Malwarebytes also does a good job.

I'm sure that others will have have other suggestions and solutions.

As a general warning if you didnt ask for a popup window to happen and it comes up advertising something dont click on it, sometimes even attempting to close the window acts as an acceptance.
Therefore close your browser and reload the websites you were viewing.
Be vigilant and Bon Chance!

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Posted by Robert: Wed Jul 18th, 2012 07:16

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Amazing what criminals will do to extract money.

Not seen anything like that but I am always very wary what I click. I don't have pop up windows enabled, except what I navigate to. That's the Mac OS (Safari?) default.

My mobile is on PAYG and I don't enable the payment plans either, so it just charges me per call for as long as the credit lasts, instead of expiring after 30 days. I think I have made about three calls this year. I'm too chatty by half! :devil:

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Posted by Ed Matusik: Wed Jul 18th, 2012 09:19

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No pop-ups on this site so far. I'm not an Apple user though, and use IE9 mostly as my browser (sometimes Safari).

Posted by jk: Wed Jul 18th, 2012 09:36

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SpyBot can be downloaded here.
http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html

MalwareBytes.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Or if you want the Microsoft version of the malware detection.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/
http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/pc-security/malware-removal.aspx

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Posted by steve of oxford: Wed Jul 18th, 2012 14:40

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Tried spybot once, it put malware on my PC.

Malwarebytes, they tried this at Rutherford where I used t work. The updates were always out of date.

My guess is the muck is moving around via windows, I doubt you'd get this on a Mac, and certainly not on Linux.

In my experiences it pays in the end to go over to Linux or Mac. All these anti-malware apps I've found seem at best to be one step behind, or in some cases malicious themselves.

NB: I had a Linux comp running for years and regularly on sites that would foul any windows machine in a jiff, it never fell over once and always did what I expected of it.

Not being an expert, in relation to JK's report I can only suggest what I'd do with a seriously infected windows comp.....just back up all your important stuff and do a new install, then make sure as to not be caught out again.

The golden rule for these special offers is; if it looks too good to be true, probably it is.

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