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More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware

Published by Allen on November 10, 2008 07:57 am under Spyware Help

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With Obama becoming the 44th President of the United States it naturally gives hackers a new subject to focus on when spreading malware to computer users over the internet. Security analysts have discovered Obama related spam campaigns and a situation where people are being redirected from an official Barack Obama website to one with malware.

I closer look at one of the latest spam campaigns will reveal that the malware creators are using a community blog section of the Barack Obama website to send people to malicious websites. The action that initially prompts this situation is a web search for terms such as “obama trojan anti-virus” or “obama anti-virus” which will then send you to the Obama Community Blog page. From there the community blog page may contain an animated gif. Image, if clicked on, will send you to a site that contains malware.

Because President Elect Barack Obama is one of the most talked about topics in the world today, hackers have a good chance on infecting thousands of computer users with various types of malware by use of Obama keyword tactics. Other campaigns such as various spam related messages, are sent using the following subject lines:

Election Night Results
Can Obama win popular vote but lose election?
New presidentâ€™s
Obama win preferred in world poll
Will American Voters Elect a Black President

All of the above subjects are very popular due to the recent election and all of the hype that surrounds it. If you ever receive any emails similar to the subjects above then it is best to use caution when viewing the content of each message. Do not ever download any attachments on emails that you are unsure of the sender. Usually the body or message of these spam emails are all similar and you may quickly recognize them. Below is just one example of the message in one of the Obama spam campaign emails.

Example the body of an Obama related spam message:

Barack Obama Elected 44th President of United States
Barack Obama, unknown to most Americans just four years ago, will become the 44th president and the first African-American president of the United States.
Watch His amazing speech at November 5!
Proceed to the election results news page
2008 American Government Official Website
This site delivers information about current U.S. Foreign policy and about American life and culture.

This is a classic case where a video link may redirect you to a malicious site to download malware onto your computer.

Everyone can do their part in identifying and avoiding spam messages and malware campaigns. It is best to stay up to date and educate yourself on the latest threats and malspam campaigns that are currently plaguing people over the internet. It is also a good recommendation to keep your anti-spyware and anti-virus software up-to-date and running at all times.

More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware Automatic Removal Instructions

More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware Manual Removal Instructions

This manual removal method is for techie computer users. More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware manual removal may be difficult and time consuming to remove. There’s no guarantee that More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware will be removed completely. So read the More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware removal steps carefully and good luck.

Before you start: Close all programs and Internet browsers. Also back up your computer in case you make a mistake and your computer stops working.

Uninstall More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware Program
Click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Double-click on Add/Remove Programs. Search for and uninstall More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware if found.
To stop More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware processes (view process removal steps)
Go to Start > Run > type taskmgr. The click the Processes tab and you’ll see a list of running processes.
Search and stop these More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware processes:
There are no processes.
For each unwanted process, right-click on it and then select “End task”.
To Unregister More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware DLLs (view DLL removal steps)
Search and unregister these More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware DLLs:
There are no dll's.

To locate the More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware DLL path, go to Start > Search > All Files or Folders. Type More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware and in the Look in: select either My Computer or Local Hard Drives. Click the Search button.
Once you have the More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware DLL path, go to Start and then click on Run. In the Run command box, type cmd, and then click on OK.
To locate the exact DLL path, type cd in order to change the current directory. To display the contents of the directory, use the dir command. To remove the DLL file type regsvr32 /u FILENAME.dll (FILENAME is the name of the file that you want to unregister).
To unregister More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware registry keys (view registry keys removal steps)
Go to Start > Run > type regedit > press OK.
Edit the value (on the right pane) by right-clicking on it and selecting the Modify option. Select the Delete option.
Search and delete these More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware registry keys:
There are no registry keys.
If your homepage has been changed, go to Start > Control Panel > Internet Options > click on the General > click Use Default under Home Page. Add the your desired default homepage, then click Apply > click OK. Open a new web browser to check that you have your desired default homepage.
Remove More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware Directories.
To find More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware directories, go to Start > My Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files > Show the contents of this folder.
Search and delete the following More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware directories:
There are no directories.

Right-click on the More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware folder and select Delete.
A message will appear saying ‘Are you sure you want to remove the folder More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware and move all its contents to the Recycle Bin?’, click Yes.
Another message will appear saying ‘Renaming, moving or deleting More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware could make some programs not work. Are you sure you want to do this?’, click Yes.
To remove More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware icons on your Desktop, drag and drop them to the Recycle Bin.

You’ve completed the More Obama Spam Campaigns And Community Blog Spreading Malware manual removal instructions!
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