gvman3670 Posted June 2, 2014 Posted June 2, 2014 Just a very short while ago I tried to sign in here. I entered my username in it's appropriate field then when I clicked the password field a popup opened that wouldn't close. Called "secure-something or other" and it claimed the actions of this computer were being monitored. So I unplugged it (since I couldn't close that window) and rebooted. I went and added AdBlock after that, already have Privacy-Choice tracking filter added to IE 11, and am running running a full system scam as I type this. Just a note, the ads still show on this site for some reason. I don't know if this was the dreaded FBI Virus or not, but I can use the computer so it sounds like it probably isn't?
gvman3670 Posted June 2, 2014 Posted June 2, 2014 For what it's worth I don't think it could've been the FBI virus I saw. Just a popup window that wouldn't freakin' close and it tried to appear something like it. I've scanned with two different scanners and can't find anything so I guess I'm good. Maybe someone saw that same thing before and thought it was the FBI virus? EDIT: Definitely not a FBI virus. I just ran a freshly updated MS SE and Malwarebytes and they both come up empty. Whew. Relief.
nonusnomeni Posted June 3, 2014 Posted June 3, 2014 http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2014/June/14-crm-584.html
rionwt Posted June 3, 2014 Posted June 3, 2014 Never used windows for web browsing, 10 years ago apple, then changed onto ubuntu, it's a far safer way to surf. If anyone wants to give it a go try www.ubuntu.com It gives alot of piece of mind, never having to worry about crap installing onto the registry and viruses sneaking into your system, you can even install it on a dual boot. everybody know only genius playing Skyrim on Ubuntu based O.S no matter your O.S when flash , framework and java transform and embodied in your system you arent secure even a researcher can cracks Mac in 10 seconds and how many thief and carders steal your money online trough site that based on Linux or Unix ? may you fear Federal but you must fear Bandit also the only way safe your treasure is be your own banker and hire the strongest warrior in Skyrim to guard your treasure cmiiw Java/flash and others as they are all browser related are all down to common sense really to turn off or on. With me I have them all turned off until I want them enabled for a particular site, a bit security conscious that way.
Womb Raider Posted June 3, 2014 Posted June 3, 2014 Geek squad at your local BestBuy can fix it for 200 and it covers you for a year. otherwise run a full system restore. If you have a valid way of restoring the original startup services for your machine, editing your registry, and manually removing infected your files out of the OS then that would be the way to do it without compromising personal data.
BoozeJunky Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 Geek squad at your local BestBuy can fix it for 200 and it covers you for a year. I wouldn't let Geek Squad within a 100 yards of my rig. I got this virus shortly after building my new setup. I think I got it from a modding site, but I'm not sure which one. I don't think it was LoversLab though, since I had just started and hadn't found this place yet. Anyhow, it scared me for about 5 or 6 seconds, till I read that it was basically ransoming my computer's data and realized it was a scam. So I pulled the plug, rebooted in safe mode as admin and did some tests. For a virus that was supposed to lock me out of my system, it didn't do it's job properly. I had access to all files and all privileges, and the warning sign really only seemed to pop up in my internet browser. A couple scrubs with Avast (I was using Spyware Doctor at the time it happened), adwcleaner, Malware Bytes, and Revo Uninstaller to clean traces from the registry for good measure and it was good as new.
Rayblue Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2014/June/14-crm-584.html It's one thing to file charges, it's another matter of getting him and his posse cuffed, because as far as I know he's still very much busy counting mint.
Shadowhawk827 Posted June 7, 2014 Posted June 7, 2014 One of the early versions of the german Staatstrojaner (Trojan launched by the government) was very special: The idiots who coded that crap didn't include a self destruction mechanism. The stupid thingy went straight to the recycle bin after having one its work but didn't empty it, not to speak of completely deleting its data by nulling out the areas of the HDD where it recided. So some nice people from the Chaos Computer Club could examine it. But those were the early days. If the FBI or any other organisation of that type wanted to know anything about the people, they have other means. Right now it came to public attention that the NSA built backdoors in Cisco Routers: http://freesnowden.is/revelations/index.html#nsa-intercepts-and-backdoors-cisco-routers-shipped-overseas Routers of that brand are often found in companies. Industrial espionage, worldwide eavesdropping on anything they can get their filthy hands on. Together with the European shithead organisations like GHCQ and related. A few people on forums like LL should pose no threat whatsoever to those assdorks. It goes a good bit further than that. They have backdoors into the internet backbone routers for ISPs. That means they have free access to the data passing through the ISPs servers. They can intercept passwords, etc... as they're being sent. Encryption?? Heh, they're decades ahead of the civilian world there. You name it, if it's on the net, they know about it. As a friend put it, our only real defense at this point is information overload on their end. Google isn't your friend either. They're constantly adding archival servers to store EVERY search, every gmail message, everything you do on google chrome... THink they're only selling meta-data to advertisers to target ads better? Not a chance. If nothing else, ask yourself how Google got a completely FREE mega hangar for their corporate 747 at the NASA Aimes Research Center. What have they got to trade that the government wants? Information. OK, conspiracies aside, the original talk about a ransomware virus here is silly ranting by haters. I manually DL every mod from every site I use, then I scan it before and after install. NEVER had an issue here.
Shadowhawk827 Posted June 7, 2014 Posted June 7, 2014 http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2014/June/14-crm-584.html It's one thing to file charges, it's another matter of getting him and his posse cuffed, because as far as I know he's still very much busy counting mint. I guess that's why criminals are so savvy to commit internet fraud these days, it's damn near impossible to prosecute. The FBI can make all the token gestures it wants but until it actually DOES something resulting in the virus being smashed and the asshole who made it spending their lives in jail as far as I'm concerned their more useless than the people who are infecting our PC's in the first place, atleast they are actually doing something with their time. We see this same SOP from the authorities every time, they SAY their going to do something about it then sit on their asses while the private sector figures out a way to fix the problem while the entire time the criminals walk away cackling their victory like hyenas. To be fair, it's not always that simple. I have a degree in network security, and a few of my instructors were actually moonlighting state and military IT professionals. The trouble is that these dirtbags operate primarily overseas where the FBI cyber-crimes unit has no jurisdiction. Russia and Eastern Europe are hotbeds, as are some African countries. Southeast Asia is starting to become another spot for this sort of thing. The pattern here is that the biggest cyber criminals and identity thieves operate in countries where they know nobody will hassle them. Russia doesn't give a rats rear if somebody there is hacking foreign computers. The hacker gets good enough, their government may even put them to work (like we don't do the same thing btw, lol). In the vast majority of cases, the worst these people have to worry about is a payoff to local officials to look the other way. In some cases also, the best ones also really do stuff that you see in movies where they mask their IP address and relay their internet route all around the globe. I used to be a member of a spiritual vbb board where that happened. FBI told us that the bored hacker who decided to keep vandalizing the site had bounced his signal through so many routers there was no way to trace him. Short of draconian censorship of the net or sending black ops teams to assassinate these guys (overkill??) there aren't any simple answers short of being an informed user of the net.
skyrimkillmod Posted June 9, 2014 Posted June 9, 2014 i got the fbi virus the first week i started DL here
nobis Posted June 9, 2014 Posted June 9, 2014 since when FBI cares about guys that fucks with spiders ... ( no offence )
cowgoesmoo Posted June 9, 2014 Posted June 9, 2014 the FBI virus is real but i never got it here infact the only time i got it was when i was in school doing research for geo class on yahoo but all it does is say "that this is the FBI say some laws that was not broken then pay a fine/fee" it like a ad that say free ipad but it stuck on youre internet forever till you get it remove and you can go to any other site but that.
Rokabur Posted June 26, 2014 Posted June 26, 2014 LOL! The FBI virus has nothing to do with the FBI. It's ransomware that "locks" your files and makes you pay the hacker to unlock your files. Someone responded on one of the HDT PE related mod page at Nexus that he/she got it from here. I had that shit infect my laptop back in Feb. If you really were doing what the ransomware stated you were doing, the FBI would not let you off with a $300 fine.
Brigade Posted June 27, 2014 Posted June 27, 2014 LOL! The FBI virus has nothing to do with the FBI. It's ransomware that "locks" your files and makes you pay the hacker to unlock your files. Someone responded on one of the HDT PE related mod page at Nexus that he/she got it from here. I had that shit infect my laptop back in Feb. If you really were doing what the ransomware stated you were doing, the FBI would not let you off with a $300 fine. Who knows? This could be their idea of a donation drive.
Cynical Misanthrope Posted June 27, 2014 Posted June 27, 2014 The only Virus you will get from LL, is the one that triggers your perverted addiction. However, chances are that you already posses this Virus, and it has just been dormant.
prideslayer Posted July 17, 2014 Posted July 17, 2014 Saw this for the first time today. Opening a direct download link in Chrome (not logged in to site) I got the "You must wait 120 seconds" message. I clicked somewhere on the page and got a popup window with the FBI gibberish. It looks like it's coming from something on the ad network. Not an actual "virus" of course, just a scam trying to get you to pay a ransom for nothing.
Aria Posted July 18, 2014 Posted July 18, 2014 Hmm this is the first time avast is reporting malware on LL for me, while browsing the adult section of skyrim avast blocked some malware several times, but i havent clicked on any download links. Anyone else getting this?
...0... Posted July 19, 2014 Posted July 19, 2014 I never have any problems at all. It must be unsecure PC's you guys have and behavior that give virus/malware. In this day of age you people should know better to prefend this from happening, don't stay ignorant, educate yourself and be alot happier surfing the waves of tha internetz. Good luck.
prideslayer Posted July 19, 2014 Posted July 19, 2014 It's not malware, it's just an obnoxious popup window coming in with one of the ads, so only seen if you're not logged in and also not using an ad/script blocker. It's difficult to close, I ended up just task killing chrome to get rid of it.
prideslayer Posted July 19, 2014 Posted July 19, 2014 As I said, I "encountered" it when doing some unrelated testing. This testing involved using a browser I don't use for general browsing (chrome). Since I don't actually use the browser regularly, it: - has no plugins of any kind installed. - has no LL cookies so I was not logged in, and thus seeing ads. There's nothing malicious on my computer, and this is not how I normally browse so it's got nothing to do with my "habits". It's just some irritating javascript being delivered by a popup window that is opened by one of the ads. The popup is pretty effective at preventing you from closing it normally without having any helpful browser plugins installed. I am not sure it's worth the effort to dig into it and try to find exactly where (what advertisement) it's coming from.
Aria Posted July 19, 2014 Posted July 19, 2014 As I said, I "encountered" it when doing some unrelated testing. This testing involved using a browser I don't use for general browsing (chrome). Since I don't actually use the browser regularly, it: - has no plugins of any kind installed. - has no LL cookies so I was not logged in, and thus seeing ads. There's nothing malicious on my computer, and this is not how I normally browse so it's got nothing to do with my "habits". It's just some irritating javascript being delivered by a popup window that is opened by one of the ads. The popup is pretty effective at preventing you from closing it normally without having any helpful browser plugins installed. I am not sure it's worth the effort to dig into it and try to find exactly where (what advertisement) it's coming from. Ah okay, thanks for clearing that up. I do use browser addons like adblock, so i didnt had any problems with the popup, just wasnt sure whats going on, since i never encountered anything like that on LL.
Arhon Posted July 19, 2014 Posted July 19, 2014 Never gotten it since i always close every kind of ad that pops-up
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