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Offline Bonk

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Is Alpha Five Malware?
« on: February 16, 2010, 01:49:56 am »
http://www.alphasoftware.com/
http://www.amyuni.com/

Who are these people and how did they get on my computer?

I found an "Alpha Five Printer" installed on my system that I definitely did not install, nor did I authorise it as part of any other install.

How in the hell did it get there? Has anybody else been "infected"? Since I never installed this "printer" I am highly suspicious of a rootkit.

I recently changed from Clamwin to Microsoft Security essentials. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea?
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Re: Is Alpha Five Malware?
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2010, 09:56:57 am »
Hmmm, I don't think I want to click on the links to check it out with that type of heads up...
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Re: Is Alpha Five Malware?
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2010, 02:56:55 pm »
yeah, I thought of that after posting... the sites are cool though. (At least with firefox and noscript)

It is a rdms product from alpha software with this pdf writer printer driver from amyuni. The question is how did it get on my machine? I wish I knew.

As this is exactly the kind of driver one could hide a rootkit behind.

Alphasoftware looks legit, but is this printer driver on my machine really theirs or is it a fake? I know I did not install Alpha Five.

I guess I should contact Alphasoftware and amyuni to get a list of their customers to see who may be abusing (or masquerading as) their product.

When I find out who is responsible for installing a printer driver without asking my permission explicity they are going to get a severe dressing down.
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