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Re: PIFTS.exe - Windows and ZoneAlarm Messages and Alerts - ZoneAlarm User Forum
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And now bogus sites are popping up disguising themselves as legit forums, appearing in Google search results. I clicked on one and got a Norton Antivirus notification that it blocked JS.Downloader and the page remained blank. When I went back to the Google results I looked at the text and sure enough it was broken English: "He met with great oppofition from the pa- pifts and anabaptifts in his ...... to fee his project for augmenting poor livings carried into exe- cution. ...". Right below that link was another one with [censored]ed up English in the description: "And heer again the Annals record them to befeige Exe- Sim. ...... 43. he is intreated by the Britans to head them againft the Pifts and Saxons, ibid, . ...". Both links were entitled "PIFTS EXE" and both pages were "pifts-exe"...they're taking advantage of the current confusion, enticing users to click their link so they can try to infect your PC.
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I just spent maybe 10 minutes looking at the Symantec/Norton forums and watched as threads re: PIFTS would pop up then be deleted within 60 seconds. There were dozens of them, until it devolved to the point where frustrated, angry people were clearly registering phony accounts and spamming PIFTS threads to the site to see how fast Symantec could delete them. The threads would literally show up three or four at time, and all be deleted after a couple of page refreshes.
It's really disconcerting, since we run Symantec Corporate at my company. There are stories out there now, though: Digg - What is PIFTS and why is Symantec covering it up? Tech Fears Arise Over Norton and Pifts.exe, page 1 |
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Just looked at a few places really quick, a theory that keeps popping up is that this executable is logging information and sending it to a few places....lol Idk if it's true, but if so could it be a government watch system? lol
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59 guests and over 1,100 page views for this thread! LOL.
That's hysterical. I guess this is as good a place as any to caution all our guests about the story of Trey McNeil and Edfinancial. |
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Norton's Forums are down.
/.'ed Slashdot | Norton Users Worried By PIFTS.exe, Stonewalling By Symantec |
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