Warning - convincing trojan-posioned posts, some safety tips.

[sandman_1]

Had a case where no virus scanners I tried, probably 5 or more, found a Bitcoin miner in with a game I downloaded. Just goes to show that even if it comes up clean, doesn't mean it is.

[zealot]

I always check exe with a virus checker, thanks for the info about the ISO's.

[poopsnorkeler]

Question --- what about the opposite where anti-virus software (intentionally?) detect clean cracked dlls and exes as infected? Sometimes they're categorized as potentially unwanted software and I get that ... in a corporate environment I'm sure a business needs to keep their network free of pirated software. What is the easiest and quickest way to tell a "wrongly accused" file from a truly infected file?

[2501]

Another example of spam/viruses, always [7/7]

http://nzbx.ws/article.php?group=alt...77&action=info

NNTP-Posting-Host: d95e5ee6.news.astraweb.com
X-Trace: DXC=ADeYO<n>Xg]?W?WaA<e5APL?0kYOcDh@ZZ@C;D0CEVQPKHUK7<C=CC\aJO_]QU2XRXU]2=QFhn<b^XXKdI]d2hH\@[U<0E:Hd3Pe;<U3`DH`6^

Just more people report them sooner get acc. closed

nice promoting of your stupid site

[ZEROdayO]

oh sorry 2501 i also own google.com i forgot to mention

if you love spam/virus posteron usenet leave it, but i hell dont like em so reporting is on.

[Beck38]

Good stuff here, luckily I don't do 'games' (ps3/4/xbox you name it) but the amount of '.exe' crap flooding the newsgroups (most of it out of Europe, or at least the euro servers and euro newsgroups) is huge. Most of it, interestingly, looks like p0rn or even ntsc/dvd, you name it.

I keep every machine in my network fully backed up, and do have one in particular I can utilize as a 'sandbox', but really, it's so obvious that it isn't even funny any more. Keep to nzb's, and check to at least make sure the actual files 'exist' in the 'real world' (nzbcc or other means).

[notgonna72]

Huh, the malware repackagers are getting slightly better at being chameleons
As a side question tho is there some reason the "official" sources don't always have par2?

[546ofof084ffg]

Poster history.

100++ posts all in a day, all with nearly identical filesizes? Probably malicious.

[piercerseth]

Poster history.

100++ posts all in a day, all with nearly identical filesizes? Probably malicious.

You mean .scr doesn't stand for scene release?

[ferrian]

Thanks for the tips. I've always been a little paranoid about running pc releases.