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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: miskie on December 10, 2011, 07:16:15 PM

Title: PARANOIA !!!11 Download.com Caught Adding Malware to Nmap & Other Software
Post by: miskie on December 10, 2011, 07:16:15 PM
Worried people HERE. (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2460213)

Quote from: DuaneBidoux
DuaneBidoux (1000+ posts)        Sat Dec-10-11 07:34 PM
 Original message
Download.com Caught Adding Malware to Nmap & Other Software
      

For those of you visiting CNET and Download.com BEWARE (caps warrented)

<http://insecure.org/news/download-com-fiasco.html >

a sensible warning - until you read the linked article... Can you spot the way to not install unwanted addons from this screenshot ?

(http://insecure.org/images/cnet-bundles-nmap-with-malware-circled.png)

But the reason I posted the thread was this post..

Quote from: provis99
provis99  (1000+ posts)        Sat Dec-10-11 07:42 PM
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3. It's worse than that. Download.com fried my hard drives yesterday.
   I downloaded an update to one of the programs I had previously installed from them, and when I ran it, it fried both my external hard drives. Microsoft Security Essentials didn't catch it in time, but when I did a full scan, 43 viruses had erupted all over my computer, and it looks like the USB terminals the hard drives were plugged into were fried, too.

I managed to reinstall Windows this morning, but I will never trust Download.com again.

Uhh, no. Viruses do not kill a USB connection. Unplugging a computer from the wall because your mom walked in on you while you were jacking off to porn might, but not a virus. to quote stupid Beth, lol.
Title: Re: PARANOIA !!!11 Download.com Caught Adding Malware to Nmap & Other Software
Post by: Texacon on December 10, 2011, 08:18:14 PM
Quote from: miskie on December 10, 2011, 07:16:15 PM
Worried people HERE. (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2460213)

a sensible warning - until you read the linked article... Can you spot the way to not install unwanted addons from this screenshot ?

(http://insecure.org/images/cnet-bundles-nmap-with-malware-circled.png)

But the reason I posted the thread was this post..

Uhh, no. Viruses do not kill a USB connection. Unplugging a computer from the wall because your mom walked in on you while you were jacking off to porn might, but not a virus. to quote stupid Beth, lol.

How can you be so skeptical miskie?  My computer got a virus once that made me beat my kids, kick my dogs, write bad checks and cheat on my wife.

At least that's the story I told the wife...

 :-)

KC
Title: Re: PARANOIA !!!11 Download.com Caught Adding Malware to Nmap & Other Software
Post by: DefiantSix on December 10, 2011, 10:12:38 PM
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provis99  (1000+ posts)        Sat Dec-10-11 07:42 PM
 Response to Original message
3. It's worse than that. Download.com fried my hard drives yesterday.
   I downloaded an update to one of the programs I had previously installed from them, and when I ran it, it fried both my external hard drives. Microsoft Security Essentials didn't catch it in time, but when I did a full scan, 43 viruses had erupted all over my computer, and it looks like the USB terminals the hard drives were plugged into were fried, too.

I managed to reinstall Windows this morning, but I will never trust Download.com again.

This was the virus that tried to hit me yesterday.  Here's a hint, DUmbshits:  The "Microsoft Security Essentials", WAS THE VIRUS, you twits!   

(Real easy to take care of, too.  Locked down the firewall, ran a full scan with my antivirus software, then let it run a more intensive bootscan to make sure it had mopped up everything.  No lost data, no corrupted files, just quarantine it like a disease-ridden OWS 'tard and eradicate it.  I was back up yesterday evening like nothing had happened.)