AdvancedXPDefender Spyware In One Of My Ads, How Do I Get Rid

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by skaterkee, Jun 19, 2008.

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    I use paypopup.com bannerconnect and valueclick on my website and one of them is serving some stupid AdvancedXPDefender.com fake anti-spyware virus. Whenever me or a user browses my site a window pops up asking to install it.

    I can't work out who is serving it and on what ad. I don't think it will be Valueclick because they are pretty good. I'm farely sure it's paypopup and their popunders but no popupunder occurs when this virus window opens so I can't report it because I can't find the origin :confused:

    Has anyone had this before and know how I can get it off my site before google penalizes it.
     
    skaterkee, Jun 19, 2008 IP
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    skaterkee Well-Known Member

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    I just realised this is a new trojan distributed through some security loop in the LATEST wordpress so beware Check out this thread:

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/182061

    after using a backup index.php it goes away for about an hour and comes back.
     
    skaterkee, Jun 19, 2008 IP
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    skaterkee Well-Known Member

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    It now seems to be something to do with the extremetracking.com web tracking code. Google has now listed my site as harmful. AHHHHHHH!
     
    skaterkee, Jun 21, 2008 IP
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    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=899445

    I am facing the same problem here.

    AdvancedXPDefender Description

    http://www.enigmasoftware.com/support/xpsecuritycenter-kvmsecure-advancedxpdefender-defs-v854/

    I found this on google

    AdvancedXPDefender is a rogue anti-spyware application. AdvancedXPDefender is often downloaded and installed by a Trojan, through browser security holes, or via other unconventional and unethical mechanisms. Once installed, AdvancedXPDefender will display notifications of imaginary security and privacy risks in its attempts to get the user to purchase the full version and may generate system slowdown and instability. This program can be extremely difficult to manually remove.
     
    falguni1, Jun 23, 2008 IP