message about registry cleaner

[Perry Noid]

one of my friends is getting a popup about needing to apply something from:

www.cleaner64.com

sounds bogus to me... anyone have any experience with this?....

[use_a_hammer@yahoo.com]

On Dec 25, 12:32 am, "Perry Noid" <nob...@home.com> wrote:
> one of my friends is getting a popup about needing to apply something from:
>
> www.cleaner64.com
>
> sounds bogus to me... anyone have any experience with this?....

Stay far away from ALL registry "cleaner" popup ads!

[Dante Alighieri]

On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:32:27 -0500, "Perry Noid" <nobody@home.com> wrote:

>one of my friends is getting a popup about needing to apply something from:
>
>www.cleaner64.com
>
>sounds bogus to me... anyone have any experience with this?....
>
A few years ago I was reading every in and out on two computers
set up for that purpose. Absolute basic OS with no other progs
on computer besides those required. No documents on HD
as all were kept on USB memory system.
On wide open computer those messages came in every two
to five minutes. Some DLOG boxes containing message stated
they were from microsoft corp. None traced to a microsoft
number. Many traced to ports assigned in countries other
than USA. A few traced to strange domain names some of
which were domain administration numbers.
None of the computer ID's sounded good, none were good.
Some traces by me with some very good mac wares and
PC traces by pretty good software.
Some traces were provided by an outside source that used
its own wares and was tracing from two levels higher in the
distribution chain than I was tracing from.
A query to some privacy persons received replies:
1) Perfectly legit, nothing to worry, they are from msoft.
2) You are inquiring at the wrong group, try ... giving a location.
No other comments were received.
Part of the routine was placing valid email addresses where they
might attract spam. That type of e-spam rarely comes from a
bonafide address. One email account was set up to autorespond
immediately to catch any quick open and close. All auto re's
received immediate bad address rejections on their sends.
One email account received 7600 spams in one month, another
received 3500 per week.
That was several years ago.

Today you have google-analytics and yahoo web beacons.
Their email accounts could possibly have bots than pick
key words from your emails to enable them to "personalise"
the adverts that appear on your email account homepage.

A poster fishing for a valid email address tried the derision ploy
and advised their e-spam count was zero and they used a valid
e-addy and the spam blocker prevented them from receiving spam.
One spamtrap account that I remember a number from picked up
2700 in one month with only about a hundred in the mail account,
the remaining being in the spam folder. The spam folder for that
account also contained about 20 legitimate emails that were sent
to that account just to see what would happen.



If you bother to read this far:
Advise your "friend" to:
Avoid going to certain types of web pages.
Use a decent firewall. (There are bots that search for computers
that might be vulnerable.)
Use a good, preferably non-compromised, anti-virus prog.
If their/your newsreader allows - search "anit-vir" in
this or other privacy usenet newsgroups to find program
names and possibly URL's to some good free programs.
Look through this or other newsgroup subject lines and read
about other types of programs that are available. A lot of
good advice has already been posted.
Use discretion/caution with picture files and/or other downloads.
The executable code embedded can be sophisticated
enough to follow a file through an amazing number of
diversions that you might think would disable just about
anything. If those pop-ups can get through to appear, if the
bot sending them or whatever whoever, they can get through
to call the executable code embedded in the download.
The executable code can be written where it will not be
detected by anti-spywares, anti-virus wares, firewalls, etc.
Disable Java in your web browser in a manner that it can be allowed
for web sites you need to visit that require java. I don't know for
sure but I think this can be done in OLE. Do another search in
usenet groups and you may find the answer has already been
posted in response to another's question.
Remember that there are people out there who have bots that scan
what traverses the internet looking for "sensitive" words.
If you still have a question - post and see what answers you might get.



Linksmu Svenciu is Ciurika.
Happy Holiday from Zuerich.

Dante

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