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  1. The hacking attack in South Korea, which took down the systems of 2 banks and 3 television networks was, according to a Korean friend watching the TV news, brought about by hackers uploading code via the popular Ahn Labs V3 antivirus program. I didn't see the report listed in printed English material, but that is not surprising. The media here is somewhat controlled by the state, and the founder of Ahn Labs is a noted political figure who recently bowed-out of a presidential bid. Just thought some others here might be interested in knowing that a hacking attack actually came through due to an antivirus program. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57575492/south-korea-chinese-address-source-of-cyberattack/
  2. I just made a post about this in the general forum, but every Korean XP machine I've attempted to install the new MB update on has failed. A '383' runtime error happens and it completely locks up. Korean is, of course, not an option on the list. In addition, trying to install in any other language is a no-go on XP machines. I believe Windows 7 machines are OK.
  3. Additional info: Machines were running any 1 of 3 different antivirus programs: Avast, Microsoft Essentials, or Ahn Labs V3. This problem doesn't seem to be related to any antivirus program.
  4. For the past several weeks, neither my friends or I have been able to use Malwarebytes. It seems that Korean language support has been dropped in a recent update. It will work on non-XP machines if another language is chosen, either. When attempting to install the recent version of the software in English on any Korean language machine, an error appears. My Korean ability is not good, but it says it's a '383' runtime error of some sort. I also see the word "text" in the error. I have attached a pic of the error. Older versions of Malwarebytes run just fine, so long as updating is avoided. This is a serious problem because Korea still has a massive XP penetration due to the many old computers still running it. Until this is fixed, we're forced to find another solution as Mbytes is completely immobilized. I have used the tool that totally cleans Mbytes off, then attempted a reinstall, but it did not work. To date, I have attempted this on 8 computers of my own and friends, and all have this problem if running Korean language. Any ideas? Thanks.
  5. Oh, I forgot to mention that I work at a university in South Korea, and our 200+ machines sometimes pick up some new viruses that come out of Russia and Asia.
  6. Hi guys, I'm happy to find this forum. I have discovered a new hobby, which I am honestly a novice at, but hope to expand on -- finding and reporting viruses/malware to anti-virus/anti-malware software vendors. After finding a few recent threats, and reporting them to different anti-virus product makers, I became hooked. I have been a long-time casual user of Malwarebyte's free version. It has been excellent, and that's why I'm here. I read through some of your rogue forum links, and would really love the chance to join your rogue malware-busting team, partly to learn more about how to do it properly, and partly just to do my part to alert the world to viruses and malware in the wild. I've set up a "test machine" at work on an older Pentium 4 computer, and would love the chance to examine different viruses and malware that people upload. Currently, I am not allowed to download these files from your site. I hope I can be allowed to do this, at your discretion, of course. I hope it's OK that I posted this message here, and thanks to the guys who cleaned up my previous malware link -- I'll do it right next time! Baccusboy
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