Jordan,
I've almost joined sendspace two times but this issue stopped me. sendspace
goes out of its way to be sneaky with all types of links and until you learn
the ropes on the site, you can burn an frustrating hour just screwing
around. On blind mice, pick your movie title, click on it, and when send
space comes up, type in the word click because that is the link to begin
your selected movie when you were back on blind mice. Then when the
download is finished, close the sendspace window. I just use alt-F4 and it
closes that window and if you are not right on the link on blind mice where
you left off, just alt-tab over once and you'll be where you left off on
blind mice. You can do this up to three movies before they say something
like, you've downloaded 300 megabytes within an hour. Please come back
later. I'm using cable, by the way, but they slow the download speed to a
snail's pace on sendspace anyway. I don't know what happened but somehow
the .EXE file popped up somewhere on sendspace and I must have clicked on it
instead. At any rate, it is a nice service for DVS movies blind mice has
for free. They used to have pop up advertisements like crazy when you
selected your movie title and started to go to sendspace but apparently they
have quit that because I haven't seen a pop up add yet.
Phil.
K0NX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jordan Gallacher" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Warning Trojan Horse From DVS Download
> Sendspace is a bit strange. There generally are two or three download
> links, and if the correct one is found, things are great, but if the wrong
> one is clicked, you can be in for a nasty surprise. I have not had too
> many
> issues with the Movie Vault the last few times I have used it fortunately.
> Jordan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Harvey Heagy
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 5:50 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Warning Trojan Horse From DVS Download
>
> Thanks Phil for this warning information. The last time I tried to access
> the movie vault on Blind Mice Megamall it wanted either a $25.00 or a
> $10.00
> contribution in order to access the vault. When I declined, it wouldn't
> let
> me access the vault at all. Even though you say this is different than
> Blind Mice Megamall, I'd let them know what happened to you.
> Harvey
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 3:00 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Warning Trojan Horse From DVS Download
>
> Recently I took a break from reading NLS books to listening to DVS movies
> downloaded for free from Blind Mice. I started with all the Star Trek
> movies, some of which I hadn't even watched, and the ones I had seen, I
> downloaded anyway because it had been years since I had read the books or
> seen the movies. When I downloaded Star Trek The Wrath of Khan, I noticed
> as I cursored down through the filenames in a folder on my hard drive, it
> was an executable .EXE file. I just figured it was larger so it was
> archived perhaps or there was another file inside the archive. I opened
> the
>
> file and got an advertisement which asked me to download a uni deals
> program
>
> for quick shopping plus a program called something like Search Protect. I
> got 4 or 5 screen saying, are you sure you don't want to download our
> program, press enter to continue, or enter to agree, enter to accept, and
> enter to continue. I discovered, it made no difference I was saying no
> all
> this time because one screen had no choice but yes. I tried bypassing it
> by
>
> going back a screen, but when I said no again, it downloaded the program
> Search Protect anyway. Then it allowed me to download the movie Wrath of
> Khan. As soon as I tried opening the MP3 movie file, a Trojan horse
> warning
>
> popped up in AVG and said 6 files had just been infected. Do you want AVG
> to quarantine the threat, delete the virus, or do you want AVG to handle
> it
> in its own way. I told it to remove the infection, not the files of
> course,
>
> and it did so; deleting them from the files. I ran AVG full scan after
> this
>
> happened because I have a pair of 500 gig drives, the second for backup.
> Nothing was found. I ran Mal Bytes freeware and it found nothing else.
> Of
> course, I have AVG set up for full drive scan in the middle of the night
> but
>
> it never hurts to do it when something like this happens. I've scanned
> for
> the .EXE file hidden elsewhere but couldn't find it after deleting the
> original star trek the Wrath of Khan,EXE file from my hard drive. Next
> time
>
> I'm on blind mice mega mall, I'll look to see how that file is posted to
> see
>
> if it is listed as an MP3, as all the rest are, or if it's filename is
> .EXE
> instead. Well, let me check that right now. Very interesting. I went
> through everything but canceled the download at the last prompt. Keep in
> mind, this isn't blind mice mega mall because when you pick your movie to
> download from blind mice, it connects to sendspace.com so you are no
> longer
> on blind mice but sendspace to conduct the download. The download is
> listed
>
> on sendspace as an .MP3 file and when you select download, it still shows
> as
>
> an .MP3 before you select save. Even after selecting save, as you well
> know, windows prompts you again for a file folder to tell windows where
> you
>
> want to save the file on your hard drive. So, either something already on
> my hard drive was already there and waiting to be launched or something
> gets
>
> changed, or did get changed at least that one time, to an .EXE file on my
> harddrive. I know this isn't ham radio related but it could have been so
> I
> figured I'd share the information just to be safe. This is not a third or
> fourth removed virus scare either; this just happened yesterday and last
> night. I added an additional freeware AVG firewall to the one that was
> already with AVG just to be safer yet. Boy, I haven't gotten a virus for
> years so it certainly was unexpected. I also did a full search on this
> program for shopping they were calling UniDeals but that, and Search
> Protect, were gone so AVG definitely found them and deleted them. With an
> open system such as the mega file services for uploading and downloading
> huge files, no telling who might upload something infectious and even
> doing
> it unknowingly.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>
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