Porn sites and Viruses & Trojans (not the condom, either)

[Doggie_Wood]

For a long time I always went to my favorite free porn site - Tube8
But recently, in the last two weeks, I would click on a vid that piqued my interest and the next then I know I have the "Fake Alert AV Soft" bug.
I shut down the Windows Auto Restore (turned it off) so any bugs wouldn't have a place to hide when I ran the bug killers.
Ran a full scan of McAfee and eradicated 2 Trojans.
Then I ran DrCureIt and ousted 4 more.
Next was MalWareBytes, which roosted about 30 malware tracking cookies.
Last was opening windows control panel, going to internet options and deleting all cookies & temporary internet files - cllicked apply and ok when completed.

What sort of problems have you had and how did you get rid of the bugs?

[DuckiesDarling]

Eek Doggie, I feel for you. I don't surf a lot of porn yet like most adults I wind up with something in my system that shouldn't be there. Damned clever spammers inserting bots in ads that try to download and install into your system.

Problem is I have cable, so every once in a while one downloads before I notice it. I have been extremely lucky at times, been able to reboot and then run task manager before it gets to the process of actually replacing my .exe files with the "Your PC is not protected, download me for full removal" crap.

I love Hijackthis, without a doubt one of the most effective tools in combatting the full on malware attack. The malware attaches files as BHO or Browser Helper Object in your settings. Hijackthis is wonderful at getting rid of these. I remember once I had one from a voting link on a PG 13 game. Everytime I clicked it brought up full page of porn links. I remember LDD laughing his ass off as I was describing it. My kids were using this pc to do Study Island for school, I did not want them accidentally clicking and getting a full frontal view of things I didn't want to explain for several years.

I'm a firm believer in protection for the pc, but even as small as they make some towers now, I doubt you'd find a fullproof condom. Only abstinence is 100% and even then only if someone doesn't breathe on your machine while it is connected to the net.

(note didn't say one bad word about McAfee....figures Elian will do that soon enough)

[baachus]

When I'm surfing, regardless if it's a porn site or sports illustrated, I do it using sandboxie. It creates a virtual shell inside your machine and deletes everything when you close the browser. I haven't had any problems yet, touch wood, and I do several local and online virus scans every week or ten days. And I've been to tube8 and haven't had any issues.

[littlerayofsunshine]

Porn on our computers only get viewed through Sandboxie. It give you the ability to sandbox your browser, so when you close it out and empty it. It gets rid of what was inside it. it doesn't allow access to the different parts of your hard drive. From what I understand.. Nothing leaves the sandbox. So far so good.. No nasties.

[12voltman59]

It seems to be one of the big problems with porn sites---other than the popups trying to get you to join more web porn sites---are the number of viruses and trojan horse programs they seem to contain.

Its one of the reasons I don't go to porn sites.

[PolyLoveTriad]

I went out of state last year and my husband called me and said, "my computer is saying I have a virus"... First thing out of my mouth? "Don't go to a porn site and you wont get a virus" LOL Im not saying its bad to go to them, Ive enjoyed some myself, I was just giving my husband crap when it happened cuz I could :)

[nudistharry]

It seems to be one of the big problems with porn sites---other than the popups trying to get you to join more web porn sites---are the number of viruses and trojan horse programs they seem to contain.

Its one of the reasons I don't go to porn sites.

Free gaming sites are often just as bad, if not worse, then porn sites for Trojans & malware.

[longisland4u]

Porn on our computers only get viewed through Sandboxie. It give you the ability to sandbox your browser, so when you close it out and empty it. It gets rid of what was inside it. it doesn't allow access to the different parts of your hard drive. From what I understand.. Nothing leaves the sandbox. So far so good.. No nasties.



^^^^^Miss U^^^^^

[biguycancun]

Pay for Malwarebytes instead of using the free version. Turn on the resident system protection module. You'll be amazed at how many times it will prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot.

[hgf33]

You just need a really good antivirus. My bf and I have tried many different ones over the years... trial and error is all you can do. Not a McAfee fan at all. Defender Pro was amazing, we never got even a single popup or ANYTHING... but after the first year is up, then you start to get bugs and errors. We put an AVG trial on the computer but ended up with tons of viruses and had to dump the computer and start over. We just bought iolo System Mechanic Professional and it's working great so far... though I haven't been to any porn sites yet (maybe later... ya know, to test the antivirus... haha!)

Basically, just research what's out there and then spend a little money on a good one, not a trial or a download. It's worth it, trust me!

[_Joe_]

You get what you pay for on free sites

[hgf33]

Ok we tested it last night... I had my bf go to various porn sites, even unsafe ones, and our computer is still 100% protected! Guess that means iolo System Mechanic Professional is definitely worth the cost! :-)

[Cherokee_Mountaincat]

Youre going to find those on almost any porn site you go to, Sweetie. Updatye your anti-virus and see if that helps. If not, take yer chances. I stopped going on Tagged because I kept getting Horrible viruses.
Good luck handsome. :}
Yer Cat

[void()]

If you want to continue using windows, more power to you. At least use AVG (http://free.avg.com/us-en/download-avg-anti-virus-free), it is updated by *cough* black hats (voids knows one or two who help grissoft, maker of AVG, knows they are a good crew) *cough* who create viruses to destroy viruses. The core of the program is similar to a database, which can be updated daily, weekly or however often you desire. It is free for personal home use, though limited. It does have a resident shield which can do a full scan daily. There is also Panda (http://free.pandasecurity.com/), which might be more to what is needed.

I would have suggested Fprot, but the windows flavor is not free. The linux flavor is gpl, free. You might also want to check out the NoScript plugin for most Mozilla based web browsers, if you don't use Firefox, try it. Internet Explorer is just plain unsafe. It allows Active X elements to execute on your computer without intervention. And some of those can be malicious at best.

Three years in Linux here. No viruses. I run Clam AV (http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/) with a TK interface called Clamtk, just to be sure, even then only because at times files may be shared with windows computers. Half the time I don't even run a firewall. Me and the wife share a network. Keep having trouble getting Samba, which is the windows version of NFS, to let us use the printer. We configure our stuff correctly, mom's machine though ... Bermuda comes to mind. And Linux using the Gnome (http://www.gnome.org/) Desktop Environment, can be set up to do and look real similar to windows. But Linux has a draw back, way too much free software, and more of it really quality stuff than not.

[lizard-lix]

I have the WORST Internet hygiene, but I work in computer security, so it behooves me to keep my act clean (well I try :tongue:

I agree with those that say use good stuff and keep it clean and up to date.

I use Window Vista, XP and 7. On that I run Microsoft Security Essentials Anti Virus/Malware, Spybot Search and Destroy Anti-Malware (the most important use of this is the immunity, update and re-immunize once a month at least), I keep my firewall on and use a router between my computers and the internet.

I serve several chat rooms on a P2P network as well.

So far, I have not gotten any infection or intrusion ever, but have made a ton of money over the years cleaning up others who have..

Install it, keep it up to date...

Liz

[12voltman59]

It does seem that porn sites are havens for nasty computer bugs of all types---it is bad enough that there is sort of the sleaze factor to many porn web sites---then they have to harbor nasties designed to wreck havoc on computers---at least for PCs. Then they seem to have a way of always popping up new windows and maybe not so much now--but in the past when I did check some of them out---they opened up boxes that you could not navigate your way out of ----I think that for the most part--most porn sites are pretty much a pox of the internet world. The reason I don't know if they are as bad now with things like this--I haven't gone to a porn website in a very long time---I learned my lesson the hard way two or three computers back--and even though I now have the latest paid, "Professional" version of Avast running--which does seem to be a pretty good computer condom---I am not ever going to take a chance with one of those damnable web porn sites since I think that they SUCK BIG TIME and not in the way that I like sucking to mean!!