Nikki Catsouras being used to spread Malware
These are some of the nicer picturs on the site
I must warn you if you go to the site there are some very gruesome and disturbing pictures of the accident, but that not what is computer related. On the site they also have a Video that isn't really a Video. Clicking that video link pops up this in my AVG warning window:
[intlink id="2205" type="page"]This is the Free Version of AVG[/intlink]
As you can see, the Malware authors are using the accident video to get people to install the Fake Codec to install some Trojan, worm, or even a Virus onto your system. I've talked about this from time to time but if you need to install a codec from a site you don't trust. I don't recommend this to anyone. I would keep with the known [intlink id="2991" type="post"]Codecs [/intlink]and keep away from any site that says you will need to install a codec or tries to install a codec. I also recommend some [intlink id="2205" type="page"]Free Anti-virus and Free Firewall[/intlink] software to better protect you. As you can see the free AVG software that I was using did detect this and prevented me from going any further. So the Free software Anti-virus providers are keeping even the most common users safe.
If you did visit that and get the virus, Trojan, or worm, you can visit my [intlink id="2205" type="page"]Maleware resources[/intlink] to find tools to help remove this problem.
As of writing the post this seems to be on the Google Trends on May 2. I will always tell people to go to the trust media sites if they are wondering who this person or what happen. It looks like they Media is going wild over the court cases right now to take down the pictures. I am all for the family wanting those picture. I do hope they take them down.
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6 Comments | in 2009, AVG, Anti-virus, Fake, Malware, VIDEO, Virus, crash photos, death pictures, fake codec, nikki catsouras, virus removal 
Reader Comments (6)
Hey there!! I actually had the "Catsouras Virus" as I personally named it, un-trademarked of course!! It was my own curiosity and/or nosiness that led me to it following the AOL piece on it!! It's funny I had never heard of her, or her accident, until the family requested the photos to be withdrawn...Anywho...if you do happen to catch the virus use malwarebytes to remove it...None of the others I tried were able to detect it. It being the MSA.exe file, and a few others!!
http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html" rel="nofollow">http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malw...
I have found that you should always do a system scan on a system that has been infected. You can easily do this with UBCD or Ultimate Boot CD which has F-secure and McAfee Anti-virus Software dos version. You should run the Anti-virus software without loading Windows to make sure if you have a virus it can't try to hide from the Anti-virus by go into memory and fooling the Anit-virus software. It makes detecting the virus or Trojan a whole lot easier!!
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Hey there!! I actually had the "Catsouras Virus" as I personally named it, un-trademarked of course!! It was my own curiosity and/or nosiness that led me to it following the AOL piece on it!! It's funny I had never heard of her, or her accident, until the family requested the photos to be withdrawn...Anywho...if you do happen to catch the virus use malwarebytes to remove it...None of the others I tried were able to detect it. It being the MSA.exe file, and a few others!!
http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html" rel="nofollow">http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malw...
I have found that you should always do a system scan on a system that has been infected. You can easily do this with UBCD or Ultimate Boot CD which has F-secure and McAfee Anti-virus Software dos version. You should run the Anti-virus software without loading Windows to make sure if you have a virus it can't try to hide from the Anti-virus by go into memory and fooling the Anit-virus software. It makes detecting the virus or Trojan a whole lot easier!!
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
Hey there!! I actually had the "Catsouras Virus" as I personally named it, un-trademarked of course!! It was my own curiosity and/or nosiness that led me to it following the AOL piece on it!! It's funny I had never heard of her, or her accident, until the family requested the photos to be withdrawn...Anywho...if you do happen to catch the virus use malwarebytes to remove it...None of the others I tried were able to detect it. It being the MSA.exe file, and a few others!!
http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html" rel="nofollow">http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malw...
I have found that you should always do a system scan on a system that has been infected. You can easily do this with UBCD or Ultimate Boot CD which has F-secure and McAfee Anti-virus Software dos version. You should run the Anti-virus software without loading Windows to make sure if you have a virus it can't try to hide from the Anti-virus by go into memory and fooling the Anit-virus software. It makes detecting the virus or Trojan a whole lot easier!!
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/