My friend just ran a .exe and I think it could be a keylogger?

Deleted member 77746 · 7 Jan 2014 at 11:18

morguk said:
I've sent you the file

Nope not got it.

morguk said:
P.S for a bit of irony, his friend was using a Mac..

Then they are safe.

KIA · 7 Jan 2014 at 12:46

Sending a malware sample via email is stupid. Add it to a password protected .zip and upload it to an HTTP file host.

MaxP779 · 7 Jan 2014 at 14:23

Tunney said:
Don't enter any of your passwords correctly. That'll throw them off the scent.

Lol, got a mental image of someone locking themselves out of online banking, email, amazon etc thinking "that'll show em!!"

Deleted member 77746 · 7 Jan 2014 at 14:47

KIA said:
Sending a malware sample via email is stupid. Add it to a password protected .zip and upload it to an HTTP file host.

I didn't get it probably because it got blocked before it even got to me.

EGuitarStar · 10 Jan 2014 at 21:31

Glad I saw this last week!

My girlfriend whilst job hunting got an email with an attachment and decided to use my machine to open try and open it!!!! It failed to open because of Avast.

She then called me and alarm bells started to ring and I asked her was it from a Yahoo address....Of course it was! Grrrr.

Just going through scans to fully check machine and remove it, if found.

FoxEye · 10 Jan 2014 at 22:09

mrk said:
Hiding file extensions by default is the worst move in all history IMO by an OS maker.

This x 1 million.

A terrible move, and how *nobody* within MS raised it as a security concern, I'll never know.