AVG Deletes ITunes Files - False/Positive

[Stercus Vultus]

Originally Posted by swampler

Port scan (from the website I linked to you) shows everything stealthed except the ping.

Can't you close that port? Or do you need it open for other purposes?

[swampler]

According to the router's help file, checking "block internet requests" is supposed to block pings, but it isn't. I tried disabling UPnP, but no help there either. Probably just a bug in the router.

[moonshadow]

What are the ads for
it may help in figuring out the issue.

The question mark died on my computer garr!

[swampler]

Originally Posted by moonshadow

What are the ads for
it may help in figuring out the issue.

The question mark died on my computer garr!

He posted them somewhere in this thread...

Sorry about your ? (question mark). Maybe you could use a graphics program to draw one (remember dilbert and the missing Q from the keyboard)? The M and E are worn off my keyboard...fortunately the buttons still work though!

[Stercus Vultus]

Originally Posted by moonshadow

What are the ads for
it may help in figuring out the issue.

Random ads/websites, for ladies purses, ice cream, how-to make a scrapbook, porn, gambling. You name it. I don't see a pattern yet.

[Douglas]

Typical spam. You wont find a pattern. (Unless you visit sites about Gambling, porn, ladies purses, scrap books and ice cream. )

There was a program years ago called 'Black Ice'. If you had an active line (when high speed internet was still very new and dial up was the norm) it would note the ip address of anyone who tried to ping you. It would note whether it was an attack or just a probe. But if you were one to leave your computer on all day, you would get tons of alerts. Its probably even worse now with broadband being the norm.

[Stercus Vultus]

Originally Posted by Douglas

Typical spam. You wont find a pattern. (Unless you visit sites about Gambling, porn, ladies purses, scrap books and ice cream. )

Well, like you, I do visit porn sites a lot of course. But disappointingly, there's not much porn spam in those popups worth the moniker...

[Douglas]

there never is

[swampler]

Originally Posted by Stercus Vultus

I do visit porn sites a lot...

This one is a couple of years old, but I'm sure there's more...
Mac Trojan prowls porn sites

[Stercus Vultus]

One step closer again:
I'm now accessing the camel via a proxy, and hey presto! No more popups...

So it's a doctored Javascript that targets specific geographical areas/ip clusters. Which explains why you don't have the popups, because when you target something, you obviously don't target other things. Like your geographical area/ip cluster, for instance...

[SureFire]

Thought it was funny that this came up in the news today.

[Stercus Vultus]

Originally Posted by SureFire

Thought it was funny that this came up in the news today.

A vulnerability is not a virus, but can possibly be exploited by someone writing a virus to do that. So plugging vulnerabilities – "holes" – so that no virus exploiting it can be written anymore is simply good husbandry.
Apple moves before it's too late. Unlike Micro$haft.

[SureFire]

LOL Vulneralbilty leads to viruses; otherwise, they wouldn't put out the update.

[Stercus Vultus]

Originally Posted by SureFire

LOL Vulneralbilty leads to viruses; otherwise, they wouldn't put out the update.

So now they're not vulnerabilities anymore, so they don't "lead to" viruses...

[SureFire]

Do you actually read your responses? Again, you sound like a 10 year old.

Viruses do exist in the Mac world. Get over yourself.

Feel free to stay in denial and win with the last word.

Unsubscribed.

[Stercus Vultus]

Originally Posted by SureFire

Viruses do exist in the Mac world.

Then put your money where your big mouth is: get me one and infect me. My machine is 'unprotected'. Prove your point, if you can. Or STFU.

[Stercus Vultus]

Originally Posted by SureFire

LOL Vulneralbilty leads to viruses; otherwise, they wouldn't put out the update.

LOL! Let's use that 'logic' for a minute:

Well, as Micro$haft seems to be in the habit to try to get away with releasing as few as possible updates to Windows that address vulnerabilities, and never timely, it follows that there can't be many viruses for Windows, can there?

LOL!

[felix.reichardt]

Originally Posted by Stercus Vultus

LOL! Let's use that 'logic' for a minute:

Well, as Micro$haft seems to be in the habit to try to get away with releasing as few as possible updates to Windows that address vulnerabilities, and never timely, it follows that there can't be many viruses for Windows, can there?

LOL!

Never had a virus on any of my windows machines ... and the BEST ... never had nasty pop-ups .

[Stercus Vultus]

Originally Posted by felix.reichardt

Never had a virus on any of my windows machines

LOL! That's the clincher of course, the proof of the pudding is in the eating: you never had a virus (...). So there aren't any. LOL!

Originally Posted by felix.reichardt

and the BEST ... never had nasty pop-ups .

Excellent! But does that make up for your BSODs?

[swampler]

Originally Posted by Stercus Vultus

Excellent! But does that make up for your BSODs?

I haven't had a BSOD since Windows 3.1, I don't think. But if it makes you feel better to think that's still a problem go right ahead and think it.