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[Brannon]

Damn it all to hell. I am NEVER letting people touch my computer again. Do you know how long I've been fighting Aurora, AbetterInternet, Nail.exe, DrPhMon.dll, etc.?

Do you?

Too long, but it's over now. Hours of Hijack This logs, Ewido Security, Spybot, Ad-aware, dozens of geek forums and 8 things of yogurt and caffinated beverages later, it's finally... over. Fuck you www.direct-revenue.com. Fuck you forever.

Incidentally, Stone Mountain is good for burning off all that sugar from the yogurt and coke, which leads to another issue; STOP DRIVING SO DAMN FAST IN THE RAIN YOU IDIOTS. Just how many multi-car accidents (up to 7 cars for one accident) do we have to pass before you speedsters get the hint that rain, holidays and speed don't mix? Come on. Stop making us Georgians look bad(der than we already do).

And that was my day, the end.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Hooker]

www.hitmanpro.nl

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Firefox / Opera

And rename your iexplore.exe to something else, plus delete it's shortcuts

 

[Brannon]

No, I'm using Firefox, it's just that I let somebody use my computer for their email and they got it in that way. My computer was Adware and Spyware free for months, but in 2 minutes...

fuck.

 

[kitchenmotors]

 

[Brannon]

And rename your iexplore.exe to something else, plus delete it's shortcuts

This I need to do, I don't use Internet Explorer anymore except during the "View in IE" option for one or two pages through Firefox. Consider it done.

 

[Firest0rm]

What did you do? can you please share? Other than using Firefox or whatever.

 

[ParkPace]

http://www.mypctuneup.com/

Here is a specific removal tool for all of that Aurora crap. Works good. Cleans everything up, including this removal tool (so if you wanted to save this for possible future use, I'd run a copy of it or something.)

I too got this Aurora crap the other day. I was installing a program and the license agreement that popped up with the installer turned out to be for this Aurora spyware and not for the actual program. Usually I just click 'accept' or whatever and go on to the installer whenever I see these things. This incident has taught me to check these license agreements more carefully from now on. :lol

What a bitch this stuff is to remove. Spybot and Ad-Aware don't clean it, and deleting the gibberish .exe file from your startup files just causes it to make another .exe in your startup named with different gibberish. Assholes that make this crap need to DIE.

 

[Brannon]

*reads program description*

*jaw drops*

...is it alright if I use Darth Vader's banned phrase to signify the ludicrous amount of time I wasted when I could've use that program in seconds? Cuz I'm saying it in real life right now.

 

[SKluck]

Yeah, I inadvertently installed the Aurora trojan a couple days ago. I noticed randomly named files in my processes list. Took a while for it to pop up an Aurora window, so I had no idea what to look for. Trendmicro didn't detect it, the fuckers.

Once I found some info on it, I downloaded nailfix and it fixed it good. Wasted about 2 hours in all.

 

[Firest0rm]

Thanks park, i thought this aurora stuff was from GA.

 

[ParkPace]

Happy to help.