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Virus Warning

Posted by JURB (A) on October 19, 2016 at 17:51:21

Either this site of one of its advertisers is spreading the "spigot" virus. (probably ukowingly of course) It is not all that bad, AVG detected it and had no problem removing it so I assume the paid for AV programs should as well, but most of them work on lists. AVG is different in that it uses heuristic reasoning and can catch things before they get on the list and your next AV software update.

Spigot seems only to be adware but you never know. And don't blame this site, I clicked on something then it went into another screen and all that so it was probably at the site that put up the link.

The filename appears as "Browserextesion.exe" when you click on details and it hides in "User Apps" or whatever under your username in Documents and Settings but I can only say that for older OSes.

I post this because many people just do not pay attention. I keep a hawk eye on everything my PC does and when I saw the redirect it made me suspicious. I rebooted and it found that virus and that has happened twice since I have been coming here and never before. I am not sure what I clicked on now after all this but if I knew I would notify the owners of this site to notify the owners of whatever site put up that link. That contract that allows them to advertise here does not give them the right to spread a virus the users here.

If it happens again I will try to know where it came from and let the owners of this site know. If possible. For now, just keep them virus scanners up to date.

In fact that is the only thing I let update. Everything else works. Though AVG uses heuristic reasoning, it still has a list that updates from time to time.

When sites start with this "Update your drivers" bullshit they can put it where it is sure not to get a sunburn. What, did I take the sound chip out and change it ? Hell no. So the drivers are fine. But AV software is a different story.

So, if you hit a link and get redirected to some strange shit you didn't want, on reboot your AV software should detect it and fix it. It will be a nice fresh registry entry and an associated EXE file. If you manually delete the EXE there will be an error on bootup, at least there was in years past. The AV software should get all the registry entries as well.

Seems this particular one does not activate until reboot. That is a nice ploy to get in there.

You have to keep a eye on what the PC is doing all the time. And BTW, Spigot is cross platform, it can get on MACs. Since it can do that I bet it can get into a Linux box as well. It isn't just Windows this time.

And don't forget, watch what goes on at all the sites you view. ANY site can get infested but remember that solutions can only come after the problems when it comes to shit like this.

Edits: 10/19/16

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