Friday, June 20, 2014

Adobe now allowing hackers to get on your pc with malware bundled with flash.

You know what pisses me off? Getting my pc hacked by some two bit idiot that happened to get on the PC and started using it as a proxy server for dozens of his "friends" back in 2012.  I had to reformat. I lost stuff. It pisses me off. And you know what pisses me off more, is the real culprit, download.com. 2 Months before the hacking, I was looking to download Prboom, a free Doom sourceport. I found it on download.com. It came with one of those stupid malware infested wrapper installers download.com tends to distribute now. At the time I didn't know about these so I ran them, stupidly. These installers ask you if you want to install tons of additional software before installing the one it's supposed to. This software comes bundled with malware and adware. And even if you deny these "software" programs access, they will still install malware anyway, just to piss you off. The worst offender for malware downloaded is "Core". It's an adware rootkit, a super hidden virus that spreads pop ups and BS. Antivirus software can't find it, most of the time, and it's impossible to remove normally. It came with prboom, installed without my consent, and so did another program, Incredimail, which kept giving me pop ups, and even though I uninstalled it, "Core" brought it back! Core isn't just an adware rootkit, it's a backdoor to your system, allowing others to gain root access, so they can control it. That's how the hacker got into my system, the hacker that screwed up my PC in 2012.

What does this have to do with Adobe? Well, I was browsing the internet last night looking at YouTube videos of how to remove malware. One step was to update flash/java, whatever. Some idiot named "Eli the Computer guy", kept on saying how to remove malware with stupid steps like uninstall all the crap software on the persons PC, (video games even!), use combofix if your antivirus doesn't work (WRONG! NEVER use combofix, it's a tool designed for manual removal of malware, NOT an antivirus! It can Break your system!), and NO mention of rootkit scanning first or sandboxing the persons browser later in Sandboxie, and no mention of bootable antivirus programs. So I took his stupid advice and decided to update flash. Lo and behold, the latest Adobe flash installer came with CORE!

Now this isn't a new thing. Download.com, sourceforge.com have been doing this for years. Allowing hacking attacks on PC's by bundling their software with the Core Rootkit. I installed the flash installer and immediately got suspicious. It was a adobe installer. It kept on asking me if I wanted to install crap like greenweb, and other crap like that. I kept on denying it. But then I closed it because I was  too nervous it would install anything. I got lucky, Core wasn't installed. But I did end up uploading the downloader to virustotal.com. It found this:


Notice something? Almost no commercial antivirus software detects this nasty malware/rootkit. Microsoft doesn't. Kaspersky doesn't. Symantec, and the pile of shit that is mccaffee, don't either. Only Avira, AVG (weirdly, it usually doesn't find crap like this), DrWeb, ESET, and Sophos+Viper do.

This pisses me off. People download flash updates to make themselves more secure, NOT to allow new malware in! This malware allowed the hacker to get in, and he fucked my PC so bad in 2012 I had to reformat.  How dare you install crap like this with flash, Adobe! How Dare you! Here is some advice for people, don't buy adobe crap anymore, they allow hackers to get into PC's. It's stupid. Tactics like bundling your software with malware should be illegal, but it isn't. No one is punishing Adobe, Download.com and sourceforge for doing this. No one!