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virus or spyware?
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Name: yukoncornelius
Date: July 4, 2004 at 15:28:50 Pacific
Subject: virus or spyware?
OS: Win 2000 IE 6
CPU/Ram: Intel Pentium III, 850 mh
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Comment: I'm using a dial-up connection to access the Internet. Periodically, after I'm already connected using my account, there is a connection window that will pop up with the title "Dial-up Connection". It will have a phony username already typed in called "jigallo" and the phone number to be dialed up is like "1234".It's basically just a phony connection that cannot be used to access the Internet. I close it and my legitimate connection will freeze up and I must restart me system to turn off my modem/cancel the existing connection in order to redial and connect to the Internet. After the "jigallo" window pops up I will have an icon on my desktop that opens a "Best Online Casino" program. (I've never double-clicked this to see what will be installed or will happen.) I've installed and ran several virus and spyware removers, but none seem to catch this crap and delete it. Can anyone put a name to this virus/spyware problem that I have? Thanks.
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Response Number 1
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Name: Solarian
Date: July 4, 2004 at 18:18:02 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)
yukoncornelius:Research turned up info at the link for removal of Best Bet Casino. But it almost looks too easy; in fact, you've probably already tried it. LINK A full Google and Turbo10 search didn't produce much about this pest--except advertising! If I find anything more in the way of removal info, I'll post back. Solarian PS You may end up having to pull the damn thing out by the teeth--its registry keys.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Thresher
Date: July 4, 2004 at 20:47:36 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Just for formality...is your spybot and adaware updated? you have to update them about every 3 days or so. Is your AV updated. Windows, Outlook and IE updated (IE-6 SP1?) Did you run SpyBot, Adaware and AV from Safe Mode. if not, do that, and see what results. Thresher
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Response Number 3
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Name: yukoncornelius
Date: July 5, 2004 at 05:55:10 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Thanks for the tips. I regularly do my Windows updates and I'm using Ad-Aware right now. Hopefully something will turn up eventually. If not, I'm just going to re-image my laptop.
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Response Number 4
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Name: jmark
Date: July 6, 2004 at 15:06:45 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Well, glad I'm not the only one with this pain in the neck thing! LOL I DL'd the latest AD-Aware and it seemed to catch it, but it came back! I have SpywareBlaster running now but it came back again! Same Casino icon and same Jigallo dialup window. It also sometimes redirects my page to another advertising page and has added 5 more "favorites" links to my list!
I've ran everything I can find and cked for all updates and am up to date and it still comes back, although I have NOT seen it today. Sometimes its there once or twice a day, sometimes a few days goes by before it comes back again.
If it helps any, I have MSN for my ISP, running XP fully updated, Ad-Aware 6.181, New SpywareBlaster, firewalled DSL through my phone company Qwest.
Sure hope someone can figure this out! Mark
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Response Number 5
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Name: jmark
Date: July 6, 2004 at 17:59:01 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)This thing is nasty!!! I just ran Ad-Aware again, only this time I used the custom settings and scanned everything. It found 7 things, 2 called "malware". I quarranteened and deleted them, then went back online again. I immediatelly lost my DSL connection (im on the old Qwest 2 hour at a time plan) and got the "jigallo" dialup window again. I then checked and had the Casino icon back on my desktop and 8 new "favorites" added to my list. This sucks!!
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Response Number 6
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Name: jmark
Date: July 6, 2004 at 18:00:31 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)This thing is nasty!!! I just ran Ad-Aware again, only this time I used the custom settings and scanned everything. It found 7 things, 2 called "malware". I quarranteened and deleted them, then went back online again. I immediatelly lost my DSL connection (im on the old Qwest 2 hour at a time plan) and got the "jigallo" dialup window again. I then checked and had the Casino icon back on my desktop and 8 new "favorites" added to my list. This sucks!!
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Response Number 8
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Name: jmark
Date: July 8, 2004 at 11:03:05 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Well, I think I got rid if this thing finally. I booted in safe mode, then ran the CWShredder and it found one file that the others missed. Then re-ran Ad-Aware and it showed clean and ran Spybot and it showed clean too. Ran Shredder again and its clean too. What a pest this was! Mark
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Response Number 9
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Name: oOoH
Date: July 18, 2004 at 09:29:47 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I have that crap into my computer too, I try to remove it with BulletProofSoft spyware, adware removers, but it didn't work out, so I decide to use Mozilla instead of Internet explorer. with mozilla, there's no "jigallo" and no pop ups either. so that's what I did, I'm happy with Mozilla, You can use your own favorites getting them from I.E. and the key shortcuts are the same... the F**k**g Internet explorer is the one to blame, it's a gruyere cheese full of holes worms and all kind of bugs
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