AntiSpywareMaster atack

A few days ago, while I was working peacefully at my computer, I was suddenly bombarded with a lot of popups, telling me that my computer is very infected with a lot of trojans, spyware, malware, malicious code and other. My desktop has become red with an ugly, red, big mug in the center. A program came from nowhere and called AntiSpywareMaster scans my computer but when I push the remove button, it asks me to buy it. Fortunately, I was still able to use my computer, so I’ve searched on Google for AntiSpywareMaster to see how effective it was for cleaning my computer. And here is what I’ve found:

AntiSpywareMaster is a rogue anti spyware infection whose intent is to fool the user into believing that their system is infected with various viruses. AntiSpywareMaster is typically downloaded through video codecs on some less than desirable sites. AntiSpywareMaster comes complete with a compelling spyware search tool that runs a fake system scan of your system on its own. Upon running, AntiSpywareMaster will prompt the user to download and pay for a full license copy in order to remove the infections. DON’T BUY IT! AntiSpywareMaster displays infections that are false and do not exist. Here are some screenshots:

Many people have buyed it and said that the application didn’t do anything. It’s a worthless application, created just for trick you.

I’ve found on the internet some programs which pretend they remove this application from your computer, but they require buying a license. So I don’t know how trustful they are.

The only thing you have to do is to remove manually this malware from your computer. I’ve found 2 methods and I give here the links, because these methods are too long to display here entirely.

1. On the first method you must stop the process from Task Manager, to find some files called AntiSpywareMaster.exe, AntiSpywareMaster7.3.exe, or the same with .dll extension and to remove them and also you have to remove some registry keys. You can see here detailed instructions.

Of course, in my case, I didn’t found any of the AntiSpywareMaster file, and my Task Manager didn’t worked anymore. It says that “Task Manager was disabled by administrator”. Though the application was still running in my computer, because more and more popups have coming and saying that my computer is infected. So I’ve searched for another method.

2. Here is a detailed removal process in 15 steps. You must follow all of these steps and do exactly what they told you to do. It’s a long process, but it worth the effort. Finally, after 2 days and a night while I was struggling with this malicious program, at step 10 I was get rid of it. I’ve followed all the rest of the steps though, to be sure that everything its ok.

In conclusion, my advices are:
1. Don’t download anything from a site you don’t trust it!
2. Don’t buy AntiSpywareMaster program!

23 comments May 7th, 2008

Free Web Directory – 134u.net

Simonne and I have launched a new Free Web Directory on 134u.net. It’s a girl-edited directory, so it will be free of spam and other crap.

You are invited to submit your blogs and sites. We have a special category for Blogs, a special category for non-English sites, called Regional, as well as a lot of other categories.

On the listing pages there are displayed the site’s thumbshots and the site’s PRs.

We have already about 1000 sites approved. The submission is completely free and the approval process is very fast.

We work hard to obtain some PR to the next Google update, so if you want a one-way-backlink, feel free to submit your sites to our free web directory.

10 comments February 27th, 2008

My domain is for sale! What?

Last night I had the unpleasant surprise to find out that my blog is for sale. What ?!?!

I’ve searched 134u on DomainsBot and I saw that 134u.com is for sale, though last week it was reserved.

Now, you don’t have to think that I verify or search for my domain every week Just wanted to find other domains which include 134u “word”.

So my domain is for sale on Sedo and Afternic. On Sedo there is no much information, but on Afternic, there are a few.

As you can see, there is a seller (Netrian) and you can make a minimum offer: $500. Wow! What a valuable domain I have!

Of course, I cannot contact Netrian unless I’m a paid member. And I don’t want to pay anything just to say something “sweet” to him.

I’ve contacted my hosting provider and they said that the domain cannot be selling because it is not expired and it is registered through them, so there is nothing to worry about.

Just a small note: I’ve never intended to sell my domain, neither my blog.

25 comments February 18th, 2008

Surprise!

Do you remember that I’ve promised a surprise last week? Well, the surprise is online and running. And I hope you will like it.

Simonne and I have launched a new project, EzMoneyOn.Net, about making money online. Oh, please don’t leave this post right now Even if you think the bloggosphere is full of making money online blogs, we think that we can present those sorts of things better. And more understandable.

Some of the making money online methods have been tried by us, some of them will be tried as we go, and the process will be published on EzMoneyOn.Net. As we have some results with these methods, we will present you the case studies, so you can choose what way suits better to your blog.

We would like you to visit our young project, and to tell us what you think about it. And about the design, either, which is created by us.

If you like EzMoneyOn.Net from what we have written until now, you can follow our future articles by subscribing to the RSS Feed or by Email.

I really like to read your opinions about EzMoneyOn.Net, here or there.

8 comments February 1st, 2008