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calliopes_pen) wrote2008-05-30 09:53 am
calliopes_pen) wrote2008-05-30 09:53 am
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RIP Harvey Korman
Harvey Korman has died at the age of 81, due to complications from the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. May he rest in peace. He was famous for The Carol Burnett Show, which I’ve only seen a couple of episodes of—probably on TV Land. I mostly knew him from roles in movies like Dracula: Dead And Loving It, Radioland Murders, and the 1985 version of Alice in Wonderland, where he played the White King.
In other news, I ran a scan with McAfee yesterday evening, and it found 26 problems. One was Adware. The other 25 were Trojans. Turns out they were all one called Vundo. According to a Google search, Vundo causes uncontrollable pop-ups. Basically, once it gets in with a piece of Adware, it leaves something in your computer open for more and more Vundo to get through. The odd .dll files I mentioned yesterday were part of it—it inserts those into certain folders. Here’s the Wikipedia entry for it, and here’s the Symantec page about it. We’re still getting pop-ups, so it’s probably still hiding somewhere in there, and I’m running a few more scans.
I read in the Wikipedia entry that it can get in through an infected ad that uses Java. Does Fanfiction.net use that anywhere? If so, I may have been right about it being their site that originally caused this.
In other news, I ran a scan with McAfee yesterday evening, and it found 26 problems. One was Adware. The other 25 were Trojans. Turns out they were all one called Vundo. According to a Google search, Vundo causes uncontrollable pop-ups. Basically, once it gets in with a piece of Adware, it leaves something in your computer open for more and more Vundo to get through. The odd .dll files I mentioned yesterday were part of it—it inserts those into certain folders. Here’s the Wikipedia entry for it, and here’s the Symantec page about it. We’re still getting pop-ups, so it’s probably still hiding somewhere in there, and I’m running a few more scans.
I read in the Wikipedia entry that it can get in through an infected ad that uses Java. Does Fanfiction.net use that anywhere? If so, I may have been right about it being their site that originally caused this.