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SmartFTP Users: Adware As Of v.2.5.1004.7

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dk70:
I think Messenger Plus have gotten so much attention for being carrier of Adware they would not do such a thing. Many find it bad enough as it is.

Anyway, I checked Spybot&Destroy for NSIS. They added it October last year and have updated many times, last January. So I guess we can assume S&D will catch this. I guess same goes for similar tools. I would scan over and over. From the comments at the NSIS remover page disinfection appears to be hard so grab what you can and attack.

If not successful may be an idea to go through a Hijackthis rutine - post it at some security forum like this http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=35 , if not here. Could be necessary to seek geeks if removal is impossible unless following a specific order of actions.

What AV let this happen btw?

Nighted:
h3h...no AV let this happen. My other machine died, second MSI motherboard dead in a year. (Will never buy anything from MSI again.) I'm on my backup Celeron 850 machine now and turned my virus scanner off last night so I could free up some resources for other things. So, my bad. :tellme:

I'll have it fixed up as good as new in a few hours.

KenR:
Ok, I'm confused. According to SmartFTP's homepage, the most recent version of the software is   SmartFTP 2.0 Build 1002. I see nothing about Beta or trial versions. So, how can there even be a  version 2.5.x and where is it coming from?

Thanks, Ken

http://www.smartftp.com/

dk70:
It is a beta, FileHippo has it. But also available at their site - http://www.smartftp.com/download/ at bottom.

I tend to agree with the SmartFTP guy replying on their forum Nighted. But sure is strange, installation process must have been corrupted in your case or did you cancel during and mistook leftovers for NSIS Media because names are similar? Too much security is problem ;)

Nighted:
I have no clue what happened. I scanned every drive and found nothing, absolutely zilch. That with fully updated databases for both my virus scanner and malware apps.

My system couldn't be any cleaner. Now it seems most likely it loaded through IE, as IE has always been how I've become infected with malware in the past. I very rarely use it, and the moments my AV was disabled were probably enough to let something get by.

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