Spyware Sucks

Hi there... The misdirection also appears to be triggered by clicking on Classmates e-mails.  This just happened to me 15 minutes ago.  I had been at Classmates, and sent an e-mail, then logged out.  Got a confirmation of e-mail sent, from Classmates.  Clicked on the e-mail to check the send, and before the entire Classmates page could load, was hijacked and redirected to xpscanneronline.com

There was no time to click on anything at the Classmates site itself.  The Classmates page did NOT fully load before it was hijacked.

Unfortunately, I deleted the e-mail and ran a scan before I thought to look at the source code of the e-mail.

Sorry. :)

Anyway, just a head's up.

I have a copy of the email if someone wants it.  It worked once normally, then the next time just to check if anyone replied to my posts....POOF!

I got hit too. SOB's

This needs to go to Digg.com

What can Classmates do about xponlinescanner.com/2008/1/freescan.php?aid=77011807?

so, this xpscanner isnt really ..real?

ive been directed to this multiple times on various websites.

or is it real?

I ran into this on a newspaper website. . .how do I know if my machine was infected? I run Vista SP1

NERVY! An unwelcome exe file started to download to my computer.  I don't even remember hitting a classmates.com ad. I was just surfing. Glad macs don't autoload!

I built my own website from scratch a few years ago and for some reason, I have the xpscanneronline thing popping up when I check my site.  It only started happening a few weeks ago after some updating.  Can anyone tell me how to get rid of it?  What to look for in the code to eliminate it?  I don't want it on my site, any help would be great.

Thanks

Chris

This malware just tried to download to my PC from photobucket.com. I closed IE using the Task Manager.

This malware just tried to download to my PC from photobucket.com. too.

ROOPS! Hit submit too soon. When I was on Photobucket, moving through  pages looking for something specific, suddenly Google desktop sent the following warning [a first for me from GD] about this malware, which I didn't even notice - I assume it was a result of the same ad mentioned by Jack:

Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer! - the page you are about to visit may be a web forgery!

You can learn more about malware and how to protect yourself at StopBadware.org. This page is very likely to have been designed to trick users into sharing personal or financial information. Entering any personal information on this page may result in identity theft or other fraud.

You can read more about phishing here antiphishing.org.

Or you can continue to fastwebway.com/soft.php at your own risk.

You can also turn off safe browsing warnings by going to Google Desktop preferences.

Would you like to help make the web safer by always sending information to Google about sites with suspicious links?

ran across this at mininova.org.  thankfully i'm on ubuntu (linux) so this means nothing to me, but just thought i'd share.

same thing for me on mini nova with Ubuntu :). Googled it to see what it was and came up on this thread and was pleased to read that some one else is using Ubuntu.

i was on photobucket.com when it did it to me. i almost did the xponlinescanner thing but followed my gut and googled it first which brought me here. sheww

Ubuntu here as well! :)  Also ran across it on mininova.