Beware of CarDomain! Infected?

Cacher123 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:24 am

The last 3 times I've gone to CarDomain, after a couple minutes or less, I get an Internet Explore pop up window telling me my PC may be infected and to click the window for a "free" download of anti malware software. Clicking "close" seems to start to run the program so I quickly log off before it downloads. I'm sure this is some kind of scam as I fell for this once on a previous PC thinking it was an actual Microsoft message and it totally screwed my system. I had to do several system restores to even get my PC to function and it was forever slow after that.

Just thought I'd shout out a warning and see if anyone else had this experience?

0311_DoC · **Posted:** Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:35 am

yea that just happened to me, I was wondering what was up...

Pablo · **Joined:** Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:06 pm **Posts:** 1201

I would disable popups, IE lets you do that nowadays. Check your security settings and make sure that executing programs is set to prompt or no. Make sure you click the "X" when you want to close a window and not some other button in the window-- who knows what that button that says "close" actually does. If your computer starts downloading and running a program when you click the "X"-- that would mean your security settings are way to lax or you have a serious I.E. vulnerability. It could also just be downloading more web pages, which is the most likely. That means these guys have set a "trigger" on their "close' button that makes your computer do nasty stuff-- like pop up more windows everywhere, hog the processor, or download lots of web page data. Doing stuff like this can bring your computer to its knees while it is happening-- but it does no long term harm once the web browser is shut down or the offending pages are all closed.This is just something they do to spite you.

Also make sure Windows is up to date via windows update. If your problem can happen at cardomain-- it can happen anywhere on the net.

Kind of funny they want to sell you anti-virus software to protect you from scum like them-- they are probably spammers. Ahhh... the digital mafia.

Cacher123 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:06 am

Quote:

Make sure you click the "X" when you want to close a window and not some other button in the window-- who knows what that button that says "close" actually does. If your computer starts downloading and running a program when you click the "X"--

Yup, that's what happens.
I read someplace that you shouldn't click the red "X" in the window, that could be a misdirect - you should right click on the task bar at the bottom and use the "close" that pops up in the dialog box.

Just checked... I did not have pop-ups disabled. I do now! Thanks for the info! :wink:

valvestem · **Joined:** Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:01 pm **Posts:** 222

[quote="Cacher123"][quote]Make sure you click the "X" when you want to close a window and not some other button in the window-- who knows what that button that says "close" actually does. If your computer starts downloading and running a program when you click the "X"--[/quote]

Yup, that's what happens.
I read someplace that you shouldn't click the red "X" in the window, that could be a misdirect - you should right click on the task bar at the bottom and use the "close" that pops up in the dialog box.

Just checked... I did not have pop-ups disabled. I do now! Thanks for the info! :wink:[/quote]

Yes, I just read about that in PC magazine this week, where if someone clicks on the "x" to close a popup, it actually will start a download. What next!? Obviously this may not happen on all popups, but how can anyone distinguish between good and bad?

SethX9 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:57 am

Alt-F4 (for PC users) also closes whatever window has focus. That way you're not clicking on ANYthing.

Albert · **Posted:** Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:58 am

I had that happen to me and had a heck of a time trying to get rid of it. Finally had to get a "Geek" over here to clean it up. Now - no more pop-ups and it's ok again.

KY Liberty · **Joined:** Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:46 pm **Posts:** 1195

Just use Firefox. Alot of the malicious stuff people are putting on their cardomain pages won't work with it.

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:16 pm

KY Liberty wrote:

Just use Firefox. Alot of the malicious stuff people are putting on their cardomain pages won't work with it.

x2

snowsport · **Joined:** Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:52 pm **Posts:** 1211

Man, that kinda stuff just grinds my beans! Thanks for posting that info. That Alt-F4 thing is cool, I just tried it.

Metrowest_Kev · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:29 am

Jeepjeepster wrote:

KY Liberty wrote:

Just use Firefox. Alot of the malicious stuff people are putting on their cardomain pages won't work with it.

x2

^3

dirtykj · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:26 am

Just use Linux :twisted:

Pablo · **Joined:** Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:06 pm **Posts:** 1201

dirtykj wrote:

Just use Linux :twisted:

I would second that, Ubuntu is getting ridiculously easy to use if all you want is Internet, email and an office suite.

paul@Mahershalalhashbaz:~$ uname -a
Linux Mahershalalhashbaz 2.6.15-29-amd64-generic #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 29 13:24:06 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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