Xupiter question

[Amused]

My settings are custom.

Here they are:

Run Components not signed with Authenticode
Enable

Run components sighed with Authenticode
Enable

Download signed ActiveX controls
Prompt

Download unsigned ActiveX controls
Disable

Initialize and scrip ActiveX controls not marked as safe
Disable

Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins
Enable

Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting
Enable

File download
Enable

Font download
Enable

Java permissions
High safety

Access data sources across domains
Disable

Allow META REFRESH
Enable

Display mixed content
Prompt

Don?t prompt for client certificate selection when no certificates or only one certificate exists
Disable

Drag and drop or copy and paste files
Enable

Installation of desktop items
Prompt

Launching programs and frames in an IFRAME
Prompt

Navigate sub-frames across different domains
Enable

Software channel permissions
Medium safety

Submit nonencrypted form data
Enable

User data persistence
Enable

Active scripting
Enable

Allow paste operations via script
Enable

Logon
Automatic logon only to intranet zone

 

[Vic]

Amused is right. You have to click "Yes" on the security pop-ups. The only other way is if it installs without your knowledge packaged in with another installation (i.e. you DL'ed a program you wanted and when it installed, it also installed the spyware without your knowledge). No other way.

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: Vic
Amused is right. You have to click "Yes" on the security pop-ups. The only other way is if it installs without your knowledge packaged in with another installation (i.e. you DL'ed a program you wanted and when it installed, it also installed the spyware without your knowledge). No other way.

I'm very curious how I got the program from one site on more than one occasion, without clicking a single thing. When my IE window refreshed, *boom* the Xupiter toolbar was there.

 

[Vic]

Can't tell you, Geno, but I'd be more than happy to visit that same site and see if the same thing happened to me (which I find doubtful). My younger bro (who lurks here) claims the same as you do when I rip that crap off his system, but I've never gotten it once even though I have visited sites where the security box pops up (asking to install Xupiter). I always click no.

 

[Wallydraigle]

I think I figured it out. I did a search for Xupiter on my machine, came up negative, then went here (**Warning: Only click this link if you WANT Xupiter on your machine!!**) When I tried to close the window a box comes up asking if I really want to close the window. I said yes, the window closed. Did a search, came up positive for Xupiter :| I never gave it permission to install anything. This is repeatable for me. What does it do for someone else?

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: lirion
I think I figured it out. I did a search for Xupiter on my machine, came up negative, then went here (**Warning: Only click this link if you WANT Xupiter on your machine!!**) When I tried to close the window a box comes up asking if I really want to close the window. I said yes, the window closed. Did a search, came up positive for Xupiter :| I never gave it permission to install anything. This is repeatable for me. What does it do for someone else?

i went there with internt explorer and an activex install request popuped and i said no. clicked yes on this is trying to close browser. did a search for xupiter, not found..

maybe your ie is set to automatically allow activex installation?

 

[Wallydraigle]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: lirion
I think I figured it out. I did a search for Xupiter on my machine, came up negative, then went here (**Warning: Only click this link if you WANT Xupiter on your machine!!**) When I tried to close the window a box comes up asking if I really want to close the window. I said yes, the window closed. Did a search, came up positive for Xupiter :| I never gave it permission to install anything. This is repeatable for me. What does it do for someone else?

i went there with internt explorer and an activex install request popuped and i said no. clicked yes on this is trying to close browser. did a search for xupiter, not found..

maybe your ie is set to automatically allow activex installation?

Hmm, you were right. I don't know how that happened. Someone must have been messing around where they shouldn't have been. I fixed it and got a prompt. Answered "no", and nothing.

 

[Chadder007]

I use Spybot to get rid of and "immunize" the browser against such installs. I also use the Google toolbar to stop pop ups and also use SpyWareBlaster to keep active X baddies from the PCs.

 

[Staples]

I remember my brother going to porn sites on my sister's computer in the Spring and I'd always end up with that program. That thing is a nightmare and that was the first time I installed AdWare. Got rid of it and busted his ass since he was 10.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: lirion
I think I figured it out. I did a search for Xupiter on my machine, came up negative, then went here (**Warning: Only click this link if you WANT Xupiter on your machine!!**) When I tried to close the window a box comes up asking if I really want to close the window. I said yes, the window closed. Did a search, came up positive for Xupiter :| I never gave it permission to install anything. This is repeatable for me. What does it do for someone else?

i went there with internt explorer and an activex install request popuped and i said no. clicked yes on this is trying to close browser. did a search for xupiter, not found..

maybe your ie is set to automatically allow activex installation?

I went there and all I got was a prompt asking me if I wanted to install Xupiter. I clicked no and nothing else came up... and my machine is still clean.