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Mozilla Thunderbird update a Trojan? | I was wondering

Nicole Schnell — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:42:00 +0000

Forum: Safe computing
Topic: Mozilla Thunderbird update a Trojan?
Poster: Nicole Schnell
Post title: I was wondering

Because this available update was shown on the system bar, related to my email program Thunderbird, and when I clicked on the balloon, all hell broke loose.

Mozilla Thunderbird update a Trojan? | Yes, both

Silvia Barra (X) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:01:00 +0000

Forum: Safe computing
Topic: Mozilla Thunderbird update a Trojan?
Poster: Silvia Barra (X)
Post title: Yes, both

I experienced these two viruses just this week, despite anti-virus well functioning.
I had to restart my laptop in temporary modality and to create a reset point before the virus came.
The virus in the form of anti-virus was very hard to defeat, since it closed and blocked all programs on laptop.

Silvia

Mozilla Thunderbird update a Trojan? | once

Evonymus (Ewa Kazmierczak) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:52:00 +0000

Forum: Safe computing
Topic: Mozilla Thunderbird update a Trojan?
Poster: Evonymus (Ewa Kazmierczak)
Post title: once

Some time ago all of the sudden I had a message on my laptop's screen: "Serious virus threat!! Do you want to protect your computer? Yes. No" The message looked like a Windows' message. Unfortunately I was stupid enough (it was late and I was tired), and in panic I clicked "yes". And then I couldn't get rid of that virus/trojan (which I downloaded by clicking 'yes'). Luckily, with the help of a smart IT guy I didn't loose any data and restored my laptop back to normal. A lesson learnt.
Ewa

[Edited at 2011-08-18 12:53 GMT]

Mozilla Thunderbird update a Trojan?

Nicole Schnell — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:31:00 +0000

Forum: Safe computing
Topic: Mozilla Thunderbird update a Trojan?
Poster: Nicole Schnell

Dear colleagues,

Half an hour ago I received a Mozilla Thunderbird update notice. "Two updates available," said Windows 7 on my 64bit laptop. Well, of course, I thought, and initialized the process. I thought that the message in the window was odd though, because Mozilla Thunderbird never calls itself "Mozilla Thunderbird Updates". I clicked OK anyway, and all of the sudden all virus alerts started flashing like crazy, and I could stop and remove: "TrojanDownloader:Win32/Tracur.Y"

Has anyone experienced a similar occurrence?

Best regards,

Nicole Schnell