HotspotShield Program, does harbor Trojans etc? [Archive]

ForlornHope

2009-01-13, 03:58

I remember I installed HotspotShield the other day and since I got infected with this threats. Is it from that program?

Smithfraud-C
Virtumonde.sci
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I also get very annoying alerts from avira with

fnjwd.dll
ARK11.tmp
ARK12.tmp
rqRlyY0i.dll

ForlornHope

2009-01-13, 04:20

This is the website for HotspotShield http://www.hotspotshield.com/

Thank You in advance

tashi

2009-01-13, 06:53

Hello,

Did Spybot-S&D flag those items?

Regards.

ForlornHope

2009-01-13, 08:29

it was clean with my spybot scans. but immediately after only hours of using it, i was infected with the trojans. is there any way to know if those came from that program or something else?

also can you suggest any good and safe software to hide ip's?

drragostea

2009-01-14, 01:44

I remember I installed HotspotShield the other day and since I got infected with this threats. Is it from that program?

Smithfraud-C
Virtumonde.sci
Virtumonde
Virtumonde generic

I can't say for sure if its from that program. It sounds very suspicious to me, since I don't really trust those "anonymous" surfing tools that claim to hide your IP address and personal information (technically, there's no point because you'll still need an IP address to use the Internet and no "anonymous" surfing tool will protect you from trojans or anything). If it does what it claims, it doesn't help much at all.

but immediately after only hours of using it, i was infected with the trojans.
If you mean HotSpotShield, it is possible that it's from the program itself, because it can misconfigure your settings.

How are the Spybot scans coming back?