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WinstonTJ
 

Registered: Jan 2009
Posts: 1947

 

07-20-12 01:42 AM

DeltaSpread, I'll say this. I think you are being overly paranoid and have nothing to worry about but since the OS is only a few days (or hours) old on the install, it may be worth your mental sanity to just bite the bullet and reinstall. It stinks but it's better now than a few months from now.

No idea what the website was that you ended up being redirected to but you should be OK unless you clicked and downloaded something.

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Wallace
 

Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 3022

 

07-20-12 03:55 AM

out of curiosity, just how much info can a site obtain about a visitor, even when it's only
a single visit and there's no interaction - clicks on the site ?

could a 'theft' site obtain a visitor's computer id and then monitor that computer so that
in the future they could obtain passwords, account numbers etc at a later date ?

but don't financial sites including brokers only accept transactions based on the id of
the original computer - a transaction won't be accepted if made on another computer ?
or is there a workaround for That ?

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BlueTurtle
 

Registered: Feb 2012
Posts: 565

 

07-20-12 05:03 AM

Sell this system for pennies!!!!! It has been totally compromised, but i'll use it and deal with all this massive burden.

I'm amazed anyone is this paranoid...but i'll try to be "helpful"

I use CCleaner to wipe stuff. use it to wipe history, and do like a 3 wipe of your free disk space. it's free via cnet.

then use avira antivirus and do a scan. that thing works well.

maybe even download a p2p blocker and so you can see other IP addresses.

i am 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999% sure you are 100% fine

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SeventhCereal
 

Registered: May 2009
Posts: 195

 

12-30-12 07:15 PM

are you for real? you are overreacting tremendously.

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sprstpd
 

Registered: Apr 2003
Posts: 2508

 

12-30-12 08:06 PM

Are you going to reformat every time you mistype a web address?

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sculptor66
 

Registered: Jul 2004
Posts: 251

 

12-30-12 09:28 PM

And I thought I were paranoid.

It's extremely unlikely that an OS X system is compromised the first time you visit a suspicous site. To my knowledge, all OS X malware out there in the wild are trojans, and they can not install by themselves without user interaction (confirmation). And there's only a handful of them.

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