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Paypal Virus?

by smartlazy Banned
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When I opened my Paypal account, my Kaspersky Internet Security alerted me about some Trojan virus from http://web.archive.org/web/*/paypal.com//paypal. I'm afraid that my computer will get infected and steal my Paypal password. I use a virtual keyboard though to stop keyloggers.

Does anyone have the same problem? I'm scared.
#paypal #virus
  • Profile picture of the author jtprattmedia
    If you were using Linux instead of windows - you wouldn't need any "internet security" program - because your computer couldn't get infected by nonsense like this.

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    • Profile picture of the author Eduard Ruppel
      yeah that's why I like my apple. No VIRUS!!!!
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    • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
      I think that is Kaspersky being over cautious. I personally find that Kaspersky is the most likely anti-virus to throw up false positives (based on my customers' experience).

      That link just takes you the Way Back Machine - an internet archive.

      So long as you entered paypal.com directly into your browser you should be ok. Check carefully to see that is where you are taken in case you do have malware on your computer which is re-directing you.

      For safety I would scan with malwarebytes and/or superantispyware.
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  • Profile picture of the author jooneth
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    • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
      Originally Posted by jooneth View Post

      I love apple Mac OS . No virus!
      Not true! World's first OS X virus hits Apple - Techworld.com
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      • Profile picture of the author DanTheSeoGuy
        rosetrees is right, Kaspersky is indeed known to throw up false positives, I've seen it a few times also. I personally switched to nod32 recently and they're ok and also they offer a free 30 day trial.
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      • Profile picture of the author MayfairNoble
        Originally Posted by rosetrees View Post

        No offence, but that article is 5 years old and the process for receiving the virus (infected instant messenger link), is typical of the kind of thing even the slightly net savvy won't fall for.

        I love my Mac
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        • Profile picture of the author smartlazy
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          Thanks everyone for all your inputs. I'm just scared that maybe someone will steal my Paypal password. I had already reformatted my PC in the past because of a nasty Trojan infection. I don't want that to happen again.
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          • Profile picture of the author TinkBD
            Originally Posted by smartlazy View Post

            Thanks everyone for all your inputs. I'm just scared that maybe someone will steal my Paypal password. I had already reformatted my PC in the past because of a nasty Trojan infection. I don't want that to happen again.
            If you have a PayPal security key, you have an additional layer of protection, because you are given a randomly generated security number to add as a part of your PW...

            https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/websc...ityKey-outside

            One of the best $5 I ever spent

            HTH,
            Tink
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        • Profile picture of the author Will Edwards
          Originally Posted by MayfairNoble View Post

          No offence, but that article is 5 years old and the process for receiving the virus (infected instant messenger link), is typical of the kind of thing even the slightly net savvy won't fall for.

          I love my Mac
          She was pointing out that Macs are not immune to the threat of viruses. Yes, they are rare, but they exist for Macs too. It's simply that it's a less popular o/s that has not been as extensively targeted by the nerds who produce these things.

          Anyway, here's a list of Mac viruses for you ...

          Mac Antivirus & FAQs


          Will
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    • Profile picture of the author mike-seo
      Originally Posted by jooneth View Post

      I love apple Mac OS . No virus!
      Only in a perfect world ... which actually we not there ... yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author nvs74191
    I checked my paypal account after seeing this. I am not facing any such problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author chiwawa
    I think kapersky is just been cautious or maybe a false alarm. Try using another anti-virus like Avast.
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  • Profile picture of the author laurenswuyts
    90% of all viruses are made for Windows.
    But that doesn't mean that linux, apple, .... don't get any viruses.
    But yes it is indeed better than windows.
    And yea I love my APPLE
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  • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
    Originally Posted by smartlazy View Post

    Paypal Virus?
    I thought you were saying that PayPal was a virus. I don't think that I would argue if you were.
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  • Profile picture of the author phantom47c
    You should delete everything that is connected with your browser's history (cache, cookies etc). if you use Mozilla Firefox, you could press CTRL+Shift+Delete and check the cookies and cache and press 'clear now'. A virus could have been installed in your browser's history and make your antivirus give you alerts like this one. For the Warrior telling you not to worry, that it might be just a false alert from Kaspersky...do worry! A stolen Paypal password may happen because of such 'viruses'; it's best to be cautious
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    • Profile picture of the author smartlazy
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      Originally Posted by phantom47c View Post

      You should delete everything that is connected with your browser's history (cache, cookies etc). if you use Mozilla Firefox, you could press CTRL+Shift+Delete and check the cookies and cache and press 'clear now'. A virus could have been installed in your browser's history and make your antivirus give you alerts like this one. For the Warrior telling you not to worry, that it might be just a false alert from Kaspersky...do worry! A stolen Paypal password may happen because of such 'viruses'; it's best to be cautious
      I've already done this and Kaspersky still gives me alerts about some Trojan program every time I open www.paypal.com. It's strange because this is the first time I encountered such a warning after almost 3 years of using Paypal.

      I'll just perform a full scan tomorrow to see if my computer is infected.
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      • Profile picture of the author paulie888
        Originally Posted by smartlazy View Post

        I've already done this and Kaspersky still gives me alerts about some Trojan program every time I open www.paypal.com. It's strange because this is the first time I encountered such a warning after almost 3 years of using Paypal.

        I'll just perform a full scan tomorrow to see if my computer is infected.
        I'm pretty sure this is just a false positive. Just about every antivirus/anti-malware program I've tried tends to do this to a certain extent (with the only difference being the frequency of these false alerts), so don't feel like you need to change antivirus programs just because of this occurrence.

        As long as you ensure you're actually visiting Paypal and not going to some spoofed link, I'm pretty sure that you'll be fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author webpromoterservice
    Find out what trojan it is first. That way you can know what to do
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  • Profile picture of the author stanislavlem
    Sometimes Kaspersky has too high limits for applications and wesbite.

    So do these...

    1. Check out your settings in Kaspersky
    2. Add paypal to whitelist
    3. Reset your PC

    I remember I had new version of Kaspersky! It's great! BUT...

    It blocked applications and I had problems. Actually I found it first when I loged in my wordpress to publish a post. And Kaspersky blocked editing windows so I couldn't edit this post...

    I thought it was a problem with Wordpress and my site. But in the end I realized that the problem is in Kaspersky.

    So I did these 3 steps and it helped...
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  • Profile picture of the author vishalduggal
    It is not PayPal. Your PC is infected with virus.
    Download some good Internet security suite or just switch to mac that is 90% more secure then Windows♦
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