Friday
2010-06-02, 17:09
The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "iPhone.Tracking.PinchMedia.lastfm" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.
If this guide was helpful to you, please consider donating towards this site (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=donate).
Threat Details:
Categories:
tracking
Description:
last.fm uses PinchMedia. For details on PinchMedia, see http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=57122 . For details on AdMob, see http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=57124 . Last.fm informs their users about collecting and sharing information with third parties, and has a switch to disable "Anonymous" statistics on their Settings page. Even with notice though, software collecting such is Tracking Software, and the statistics are in fact not "anonymous", but "pseudonymous".
Links (be careful!):
Website: http://www.last.fm/hardware/apple
Privacy: http://www.last.fm/legal/privacy
Removal Instructions:
Files:
Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these files.
The file at "<$MYMUSIC>\iTunes\Mobile Applications\Last.fm.ipa".
Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If iPhone.Tracking.PinchMedia.lastfm uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify files!
Final Words:
If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.
If this guide was helpful to you, please consider donating towards this site (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=donate).
Threat Details:
Categories:
tracking
Description:
last.fm uses PinchMedia. For details on PinchMedia, see http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=57122 . For details on AdMob, see http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=57124 . Last.fm informs their users about collecting and sharing information with third parties, and has a switch to disable "Anonymous" statistics on their Settings page. Even with notice though, software collecting such is Tracking Software, and the statistics are in fact not "anonymous", but "pseudonymous".
Links (be careful!):
Website: http://www.last.fm/hardware/apple
Privacy: http://www.last.fm/legal/privacy
Removal Instructions:
Files:
Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these files.
The file at "<$MYMUSIC>\iTunes\Mobile Applications\Last.fm.ipa".
Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If iPhone.Tracking.PinchMedia.lastfm uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify files!
Final Words:
If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.