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Steam Is Distributing Viruses Again
Valve Hosted Malware…Again
Uninstall Pando Media Booster.
Hindsight is twenty twenty, and no doubt gamers of days to come will one day look back at Pando Media Booster and remember it for what it was: One of the worst program to plague PC users since the Bonzai Buddy. As advertised, Pando Media Booster became rather widely used by a number of MMOs as a peer to peer sharing system to mitigate bandwidth and hopefully provide faster download times.
It also had the side effect of slowing the internet speeds of many down to a crawl, and was generally seen as bloatware carefully toeing the line between legitimate software and malicious malware. Last August, to the relief of gamers everywhere, Pando closed its business down and shut down the Pando Media Booster servers.
So Pando may be dead, but as decades of Friday the 13th movies have shown us, the dead often do not rest in peace. Pando Media Booster has been hijacked and users are receiving notices that the program requires an update despite the service having shut down last year. The supposed update is actually the Sweet Page browser hijacker virus, which redirects browsers to the Sweet Page search engine.
A number of MMO clients are still being distributed with Pando Media Booster.
(Source: CSTM)
Hundreds of Thousands To Lose Internet Access In July
MMO Fallout is all about the internet, and in order to maintain our world we must keep it secure. Last November, the American Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a raid alongside other agencies to take down a massive internet ad-fraud scheme. The hackers involved were exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows to redirect users to false websites for phishing purposes.
Unfortunately, due to the nature of the virus the FBI was unable to simply pull the plug as the computers had become reliant on the servers being up. So they replaced the servers with clean hardware and have maintained the systems at a rather high cost (over $80 grand), without anyone knowing that their internet was being modified. Approximately 360,000 computers are still believed to be infected.
The bad news gets worse, however. The servers are having their plugs pulled in July, after which anyone still infected will lose access to the internet, and that brings us to why I am talking about this here at MMO Fallout.
I strongly suggest that all users visit the following website. If dcwg.org is down (which is probably will be), try the website below it.
These websites will check if your computer is looking up IP addresses properly. If they aren’t, you are infected, and should head over here to find a fix:
Browse safe, my friends.
Virus Alert: Update Java NOW
Check your Java version: Do you have Java 6 Update 20? If not, download it now! Yesterday Sun released Java 6 Update 20, an out-of-cycle patch that fixes a gaping security hole in all current versions of Java, that allows an infected or booby-trapped website to pass on a drive-by download and install malware on the viewer’s computer. Security watchdog sites are reporting multiple websites that are running these drive-by download attacks, and warn everyone to update to the latest version immediately, or you put your computer’s security in a great deal of risk.
Download the update here: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp (I have this set so you have to copy and paste it, just to alleviate concerns of fake link)
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