[RTTY] FW: [DDXA] QRZ.com virus?

[Dick Flanagan]

I have gone to QRZ.com probably twenty times over the last two or three 
days without incident, but as I said in a different post I pay QRZ.com 
$20 a year not to display advertising in their search windows.  I'll bet 
one of their search window advertisers is for an anti-virus product that 
infects your system.

Dick

--
Dick Flanagan K7VC
dick at k7vc.com


On 12/26/2011 2:45 PM, Don Hill AA5AU wrote:
> Anyone get hit with a virus from QRZ.COM?  I haven't been to the site since W5FKX told me about this a couple days ago.  It looks
> like something similar to what I got a couple months ago from contesting.com.
> I'm not brave enough to go to QRZ.COM right now.  Anyone know a person we can contact at QRZ.COM to inform them they might have a
> virus on the site?
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
> http://www.aa5au.com<http://www.aa5au.com/>
> http://www.rttycontesting.com<http://www.rttycontesting.com/>
>
>
>
>
>    _____
>
> From: ddxa-bounces at deltadx.net [mailto:ddxa-bounces at deltadx.net] On Behalf Of Don W5FKX
> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 2:19 PM
> To: DDXA
> Subject: [DDXA] QRZ.com virus?
>
>
> Just a note of caution for all - while doing some QSL work last week, I picked up a malicious bug claiming to be "Vista Antivirus
> 2012", that completely interrupted my pc function with exclamations that it was protecting me from multiple attacks as displayed by
> a "scan" showing all of these, and blocking access to the internet by other programs while offering to protect my pc for a sign-up
> fee! Researching with my laptop, I found that it is variously called "XP Antispyware 20YY", "Vista Antispyware ...", "Win7
> Antispyware ...", depending upon your OS, and apparently the "YY" began in '09 and is now '12.
>
> After some tedious cleanup, I got rid of it. Some more poking about brought me to the conclusion that it probably came from QRZ.com.
> After several days of "clean" operation, I returned to QRZ.com today to lookup another callsign, and  ... bingo!! ... back came the
> virus!
>
> My browsing exposure to malicious software is probably exacerbated by the fact that I run as Administrator, allowing a greater
> degree of exposure. Unfortunately, my anti-virus program, Zone Alarm, did absolutely nothing to protect me on either occasion. A
> complaint to them elicited the comment ".. we can't always keep up with permutations ...".  Guess I will have to quit using QRZ.com
> ... sigh!
>
> 73,
> Don W5FKX
> http://www.deltadx.net/
>
>
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