It’s been months since I have gone through the database to update the records to pick up new radio stations.<\/p>\n
So I’m maybe 20 records into about 100 waiting to be updated, when my computer goes nuts…<\/p>\n
The browser crashes (I’m using Firefox, not MSIE)…\u00a0 and then the Microsoft Security Essentials “alerts” me to this guy:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/portal\/Threat\/Encyclopedia\/Entry.aspx?Name=Win32\/Alureon<\/p>\n
but it didn’t stop the infection.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then the typical “Your computer is turning into a pile of smoking rubble” messages start.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am able to boot the computer into safe mode, see that it has stuffed itself into the \\application data file as a randomly named .exe and added itself to the system startup.<\/p>\n
From the Safe mode startup, I tell it to invoke system Restore and keep my fingers crossed.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Safe Mode boot was not seeing the system Restore as an option in the Programs menu.<\/p>\n
System Restore seems to have worked, but the description above is totally creeping me out.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m not an inexperienced or naive computer user.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe I now understand why people are leaving their computers turned off.<\/p>\n
At this point, I really am not comfortable with “volunteers” following links to what should be trusted web sites, but increasingly the “real” web sites are infected with trojans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s been months since I have gone through the database to update the records to pick up new radio stations. So I’m maybe 20 records into about 100 waiting to be updated, when my computer goes nuts… The browser crashes … Continue reading