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blackfeet · 06-13-2006, 04:18 AM

i was surfing some websites and noticed one that was loading really slow.
i looked down at my cpu and watched the red light blink like crazy as if something was being downloaded. i didn't get an alert from my anti-virus programs counterspy or pc-cillin. so i shut my computer down and went to bed for a few hours. i got up at about 3am and booted up. counterspy did an automatic scan i guess which is set at about 3am. when it was done it told me the Dropper Microjoin.A was downloaded to my computer. i rushed and changed all the passwords to my email accounts. after i did so, i went to check my emails later in the day and noticed 4 emails back to back in 2 email accounts. i opened 1 message and went to scroll down and clicked a white spot in the email by mistake. it took me to some page and asked if i wanted to download something. i disconnect my internet and clicked no and scanned my computer again. no virus! so i deleted all the emails and thought that was it.
i went into my ebay account first thing this morning because i had 8 auctions that closed yesterday. i went into my ebay account and noticed someone deleted all the sold auctions i was working on. so i went into every account i have online and changed all the passwords. i'm now keeping tabs on all of my bank accounts and joined one of those credit report agencies to watch for credit fraud.

if i didn't get up at 3 in the morning to boot up, i don't think i would have known i had a trojan until i did a scan again. maybe once every 3 days.

moral of this story...scan your computers at least twice a day. avoid the headaches.

06-13-2006, 04:18 AM
blackfeet Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 589	Received My First Trojan. BEWARE i was surfing some websites and noticed one that was loading really slow. i looked down at my cpu and watched the red light blink like crazy as if something was being downloaded. i didn't get an alert from my anti-virus programs counterspy or pc-cillin. so i shut my computer down and went to bed for a few hours. i got up at about 3am and booted up. counterspy did an automatic scan i guess which is set at about 3am. when it was done it told me the Dropper Microjoin.A was downloaded to my computer. i rushed and changed all the passwords to my email accounts. after i did so, i went to check my emails later in the day and noticed 4 emails back to back in 2 email accounts. i opened 1 message and went to scroll down and clicked a white spot in the email by mistake. it took me to some page and asked if i wanted to download something. i disconnect my internet and clicked no and scanned my computer again. no virus! so i deleted all the emails and thought that was it. i went into my ebay account first thing this morning because i had 8 auctions that closed yesterday. i went into my ebay account and noticed someone deleted all the sold auctions i was working on. so i went into every account i have online and changed all the passwords. i'm now keeping tabs on all of my bank accounts and joined one of those credit report agencies to watch for credit fraud. if i didn't get up at 3 in the morning to boot up, i don't think i would have known i had a trojan until i did a scan again. maybe once every 3 days. moral of this story...scan your computers at least twice a day. avoid the headaches.