Comments on: Botnet malware targets MyYearbook http://blog.webroot.com/2009/05/01/botnet-malware-targets-myyearbook/ WEBROOT - INSIGHTS INTO THREATS AND TRENDS FROM OUR INTERNET SECURITY EXPERTS Fri, 17 May 2013 20:44:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: m b http://blog.webroot.com/2009/05/01/botnet-malware-targets-myyearbook/#comment-10884 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 04:42:21 +0000 http://blog.webroot.com/?p=471#comment-10884 My YEARBOOK is the worst hacking infested site I have ever seen. And I am sure those that work for the site are well aware of all the pop-up adware programs constantly bombarding the site. I have noticed what appears to be alias ids throughout the network just sitting in chatter locations.. they sem to be workers for the sight masking around as male when in fact they are female and vice versa causing havoc with whatever user they feel they have rights to harass. I have noticed this many many times on there. I myself have even had my account tampered with by an id that I thought seemed suspicious and after deleting this id found my layout changed, their stickers deleted from my profile as well as messages deleted. I think either YB permits these antics or the site is a hacker haven. disappointing to say the least.

]]> By: Michael Z Williamson http://blog.webroot.com/2009/05/01/botnet-malware-targets-myyearbook/#comment-6417 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:04:06 +0000 http://blog.webroot.com/?p=471#comment-6417 My daughter got a popup “anti-virus” virus, that proceeded to throw up 6 different dire warnings about the system being infected, with the classic cutesy, “delete virus now, or stay infected?” invite. It masqueraded as MS, McAfee, Norton, several others.

This was pretty pervasive, because it won’t allow you to open any files, and then eventually blocks mouse controls to prevent any clicking of any kind. I’m sure next it would promise to fix everything for only $49.95.

To get it out, I first had to boot from a BART system disk and pull the infected files. This won’t stop it, though. It came back. So I repeated that, and it gives you just enough time to load a Windows antivirus disk, boot up and activate. That restores to pre-infection state.

This happened again three days later, which leads me to believe the nice people at emailaddressprotectiondotcom who own myyearbook are well aware of this, and complicit in the idea, and possibly even getting kickbacks.

My daughter decided to stay off the site in future, even with max adware and popup blockers.

tags: myyearbook.com malware fake virus warning removal

]]> By: Debra Perkins http://blog.webroot.com/2009/05/01/botnet-malware-targets-myyearbook/#comment-991 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:58:48 +0000 http://blog.webroot.com/?p=471#comment-991 Same problems as described above, and I don’t do battles and hardly ever vote on this site

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