YOU, the scum behind browser hijacks.
Yes YOU, you blackmailing, energy sucking fuckers.
The conduit.com company who’s company site and realty I’m sure you can find and if…
I advise others on Internet security and I’ve now had a ‘drive by’ courtesy of Conduit .com.
Yes I know that I’m mentioning the Co. a lot, hopefully some one will manage to avoid them.
As an addendum, before you ask, I’m running a ‘clean’ and fully updated version of Win XP, Chrome + Firefox. Thoroughly scanned and I was testing this rig prior to donating it to the Danish Church in London, a little responsibility.
So Conduit.com, come out of the woods cos I can smell class action in the air.
What is the site? I’ve been doing a lot of electrical and air work lately. I take it they’re not in the business of selling me conduit?
And why, when hearing about a nefarious site, do I get that same feeling when looking over the edge of a cliff. No, not gonna jump. Clearly. But maybe if I use the virtual Linux machine’s FireFox/NoScript/AdBlock/Ghostery…
This is why when my in-laws vist (in-laws from Russia, who visit plenty of .ru sites) I start their very own virtual machine on all the public computers, maximize it, then start up Firefox in full screen mode.
About the recommended “use uninstall in the control panel” it should be indeed the first thing to try, although I call them scum-ware, to avoid run ins with the law they usually do a job of uninstalling themselves. One selects the choice in the “Program and Features” to uninstall or change a program area in the control panel.
One way to prevent this in the future, make a habit of making profiles for family members, anyone that has to do a lot of surfing should have a simple profile with no administrator permissions. Then to clean the computer is only a mater of saving the documents and then deleting the affected profile.
I’m very curious about this drive-by download concept and have been trying to find it “in the wild”. So is conduit.com able to infect a browser just by being visited? I tried going there and clicked around but nothing happened. Is there a particular browser that is vulnerable to this site, or is there a particular link on the site that causes the infection?
Protip: some places routinely bundle these spy/malware into their installers (cnet/download.com), so only use reputable sources (filehippo.com). Also never “speed-click” your way through the installation process (read carefully and click “custom install” to weed out obvious spyware components).
When I highlight and right-click a term in IE, I would like to make the option “Search with Google”, NOT “Search with Bing” and especially not “Search with Conduit Search”. Is there a way to change that? Windows Help is as useless as ever.
You find a board like majorgeeks.com or malwaretips.com that has experts who will help you for free. There are several of them. They will usually ask you to download software like “Hijack This” that will produce a log showing info about your system and post it for them to see. Then they’ll give you solutions to try. (Then you donate a few bucks to the board if you’re not a jerk).
