Thanks for the heads up Chris. I will add that to the long list of reasons
to stay away from E(vil)bay.
Charlie
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I was looking at a bicycle part on eVilBay just now and a window
> popped up, stating that my username and password were needed in order to
> finish displaying the item. This was obviously a spoof so I got away from
> that item.
>
> Two weeks ago I was looking at photos of an eVilBay item and managed
> to get a piggyback virus from it. When I restarted the laptop later that
> day it wiped out most of my WinXP operating system, so now I'm having to
> use the awful Win7 system until I can get the WinXP reloaded on the primary
> hard drive.
>
> It's not the first time that I've encountered a piggyback virus. I
> got one a few years ago that was attached to a PDF document that a friend
> sent to me. These things readily bypass any and all firewalls, antivirus,
> and malware protection. Lately, though, eVilBay has become a primary
> source of viruses, and it's invariably by way of those third party photo
> vendors.
>
> Don't you just love this crap?
>
>
> Chris
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