Comments on: Some New Takes on the Botnet Issue!

By: Arcy

Arcy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:56:58 +0000

Visiting http://www.reportpoll.com/ will cause a rubotted pop-up. (redir) Interestingly enough, the rubotted log is completely empty. Thoughts?

By: Skylar Morton

Skylar Morton — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:45:49 +0000

One more reason to use a mac

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:55:12 +0000

@Neil Carron, I think we might be on to it if not found it! I’ll be posting this follow-up today!

By: Neil Carron

Neil Carron — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:49:18 +0000

@Admin,
Thanks for you quick reply. I, and I am sure many others, are hoping that you will find the root cause of the issue so we can get this cleared up for good.

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:42:34 +0000

@Neil Carron, I will be following it up this week. I’m sorry, I’ve been a bit overwhelmed lately.

By: Neil Carron

Neil Carron — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:19:12 +0000

When are you going to finish this investigation? Your’s is the only site that seems to take the problem seriously. I am still getting the warning messages two to three times a day and want to fix the problem. I use excite.com for my home page and it refreshes every 30 minutes. I think the bot warning happens when the refresh compltes.

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:56:33 +0000

@Todd,

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:50:26 +0000

Hi Deb,
Just wanted to tell you about my infection about 3 weeks ago.
My daughters computer was infected with the Antivirus 2009, I’m not sure how it arrived there but the cable company threated a shut off service if we didn’t find the pc infected and fix it. I went to all the pc’s in my home 2 wired 2 wireless and watched to see what was going on. I tried several programs to remove the antivirus2009 with no success. Couldn’t even shut it down without it restarting itself, I dreaded the thought of wiping the hd and reinstalling windows. I had a flash of genious and renamed the folder the virus was residing in and restarted the pc, it didn’t start up and I could now safely delete the problem program.
Last friday my website was hacked into and as far as I could tell the only thing that was changed was the first index page, is there other things I should dig deeper into? I have reset the admin password to a much higher level of security.
Thanks for your time.
Todd

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:43:45 +0000

@Mike Mangan, Thanks for taking the time to comment! I understand where you’re coming from, but I have Trend Micro IS Pro and I’m still getting these. That’s why I think it’s more than just a marketing ploy. But you did give me another angle to look at too. There was something I recently read that may make what you’re saying a little clearer. I’ll be back on this!

By: Mike Mangan

Mike Mangan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:49:48 +0000

If it walks like a Duck…I am a network engineer with 20+ years of exp. I have “defense in layers” on my home network. I was trying RUBotted (TrendMicro) which was very (too?) quick to report that nothing was wrong for several days. Suddenly, I get a report of a ‘bot’ on my machine. Download our entire suite was the answer! And BTW, remove the competitors products before we can start (to include CA AV which has protected me successfully for over 5 years. Bottom Line: With the entire TM suite installed, full scans and all recommended fixes performed, RUBotted is still complaining on a ‘bot’ on board and telling me to run ‘Housecall”!! To me, this is worthy of an FTC investigation.