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WARNING - Virus - Horizon/Playsims Forum 01/02/2012

Keep off the Horizon/Playsim forum ATM

Their forum is infected YET AGAIN !!!

Virus is a password stealer - Win32 Fareit.A


Drops a video and icon into c:\windows\syswow64\
video is a GUIDname.avi begining with 78ec91b

Also drops an exe into C:\Program Data\
filename isecurity.exe
and matching icon onto the desktop.

May be other aspects.



HTH
ATB
Paul

No problem here

Hi Folks

George -
As of 22:43 tonight the javascript is still present.

Take a look at the index.php's page source,
its right at the very top,
and outside the html tags.



Your a/v may have automatically quarantined it,
or, hopefully not,
failed to detect it at all.



MS-SE, AVG, Ad-Aware, Sucuri all detect the script.



From what I can see -
If you've got javascript turned off
or java is not installed,
then you shouldn't have an issue.

Yes I do know they are totally unrelated.
But from what I've come across
that javascript supposedly decodes to install a java runtime.



HTH
ATB
Paul

I do have Java installed and MalwareBytes reports no problem.

Rememember, this virus was discovered in May last year so most ant-virus systems would know of it.

AVG shows no attemped infection.

Also, I have no reg entries in HKCU\Software\WinRAR

I'm not seeing anything either Paul

Hi Folks

Gents
What are you saying ?
a ) Your antivirus is giving you no warning ?
b ) You can't see the script ?
c ) Both above ?

Please look at the page source for -
http://www.playhorizon.co.uk/forums/index.php

Here's a snippet from the start of the code,
freshly grabbed at 11:01 02/02/2012 HTH
ATB
Paul

AVG blocked my access yesterday. Today, I can't log on to the site. Blank screen. Tried using the link Paul posted. Same result.

Hi Folks

Scratch that.
They've finally pulled the whole site.

Please see - http://www.playhorizon.co.uk/

That's an extremely accusatory message.
Just shows how utterly clueless they are.

ATB
Paul

Hi Paul,

My AV didn't give a warning. Either way, the text they have put on their page seems neither helpful or particularly informative. It implies they knew there was an issue yesterday and did nothing about it until today which is a poor show.

Hi Folks

Ben -
Please see thread over at - earthsimulations forum

HTH
ATB
Paul