I just subverted an attempt by an xfire user to pass me a virus through xfire.
He goes by nickname computer wiz.. or something to that effect.
I did not recognize him as a friend, but assumed I had forgot.
He passed me a file called hitregfix.exe, claiming it would resolve the hitreg problems in BF2.
I was skeptical... i asked how it worked...
I went ahead and accepted it from him, but did not execute.
He said a friend had made it, and that it wasn't a hack, and that it really worked.
I scanned it with my sweeper.... (sirens go off)
I replied "your friend just gave you a virus".
He immediately logs off xfire without responding,
and my firewall alerted me to an attempt to breach my security. (probably through xfire)
His initial message to me that had brought up the chat box looked suspicious in itself...
It looked like some sort of cd key or something.... I asked him about it,
and he claimed it to be a registration key to Sony Vegas...
I asked what version.... his response indicated it was NOT what he had said it was.
This and the claims he made about the hitreg fix without knowing how it worked is what
made me suspicous.
If you see this guy, see what you can find out about him...
I could not find him in my xfire friends list after our short chat...
AND DONT BELIEVE CLAIMS ABOUT BF2 Hitreg fixes!
He goes by nickname computer wiz.. or something to that effect.
I did not recognize him as a friend, but assumed I had forgot.
He passed me a file called hitregfix.exe, claiming it would resolve the hitreg problems in BF2.
I was skeptical... i asked how it worked...
I went ahead and accepted it from him, but did not execute.
He said a friend had made it, and that it wasn't a hack, and that it really worked.
I scanned it with my sweeper.... (sirens go off)
I replied "your friend just gave you a virus".
He immediately logs off xfire without responding,
and my firewall alerted me to an attempt to breach my security. (probably through xfire)
His initial message to me that had brought up the chat box looked suspicious in itself...
It looked like some sort of cd key or something.... I asked him about it,
and he claimed it to be a registration key to Sony Vegas...
I asked what version.... his response indicated it was NOT what he had said it was.
This and the claims he made about the hitreg fix without knowing how it worked is what
made me suspicous.
If you see this guy, see what you can find out about him...
I could not find him in my xfire friends list after our short chat...
AND DONT BELIEVE CLAIMS ABOUT BF2 Hitreg fixes!
