Re: Pando Media Booster

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• crypticbuxom Posts: 4,629 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Some of us have known that it was bad for years.

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• xvii013 Posts: 31 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Have removed it years ago as well, thanks for warning the community though

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• flyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  This gives me deja vu back when Cryptic(or was it Atari..) got hacked.

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• kallethen Posts: 1,576 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  I saw an article about this on Massively.
  
  http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/02/24/pando-media-booster-update-is-actually-a-browser-hijack/
  
  The article included a link to instructions on how to remove the virus contained in the update in case you installed it:
  
  http://www.antivirus-blog.com/removal-guides/sweet-page-removal/

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• chaelk Posts: 7,732 Arc User

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  I already removed it over a year ago, after eventually finding out where it was hiding.

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• stjobe Posts: 81 Arc User

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  Thanks for the heads-up.
  
  Pando Media Booster always was a **** program, laden with "ad-ware" and hogging your Internet connection long after whatever you downloaded with it was complete.
  
  I was forced to use it on a couple of F2P titles and it never worked well, so I've long ago purged it from my computer ("Cleanse it! Cleanse it with FIRE!").
  
  Sad to hear it's finally taken the plunge to actual malware (as opposed to barely functioning annoy--ware), but I can't say I'm surprised.
  
  I always wondered why any respectable company would use Pando when it was such a piece of *** - did Pando pay them to use it?
  
  Either way, if you haven't already, follow the instructions linked and get rid of that piece of trash.

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• guardianettie Posts: 59 Arc User

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  I uninstalled Pando Media Booster and deleted the files, but I don't know whether I have the hijack or not. I don't think I do. I haven't seen the Sweet Page thing. How do you check whether or not your browser has been hijacked?

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• nepht Posts: 6,883 Arc User

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  Pando has always been a pile of crap now its a pile of virus crap.

  
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• jonsills Posts: 6,318 Arc User

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  Thankfully, I took the advice I got in these very forums back in the day, and nuked that right off my hard drive the moment it finished downloading the games. *whew*

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• chaelk Posts: 7,732 Arc User

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  kallethen wrote: »

  I saw an article about this on Massively.
  
  http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/02/24/pando-media-booster-update-is-actually-a-browser-hijack/
  
  The article included a link to instructions on how to remove the virus contained in the update in case you installed it:
  
  http://www.antivirus-blog.com/removal-guides/sweet-page-removal/

  
  read through that first link, in the comments there are other games listed which use similar programs

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• beldin Posts: 1,708 Arc User

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  I never understood why that was even used since all we needed to install the program was just ChampionsOnline.exe and that was also what we could download before suddenly only the pando version was behind that link.

  
  

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• kallethen Posts: 1,576 Arc User

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  It was used because of the promise to use bittorrent-like peering for the game downloads. Not a bad idea. Torrents worked well for WoW, and others wanted to follow that route.
  
  Reality was a different, of course.

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