Heads-up for PC Gamers -- new malware iehighutil.exe will FRY your GPU via Java

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  1. phoeniks314

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    Just found this on gaf:

     
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    Can you give me a link? Want to give it to my pal.
     
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  3. WhiteLightning

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    the link is right there, click on gaf
     
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    A link to the actual virus.
     
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    To avoid this , I should just disable Java plugin in firefox ?
     
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  6. Agent-A01

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    lol, why do people even need java? I have yet come across where i just needed it to do something.. an OP title is a little over the top. It wont FRY your gpu.
     
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    Java is used for online banking.
     
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  8. lucidus

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    No end to the bad news for Java.
     
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  9. Mr_ALLroy

    Mr_ALLroy Ancient Guru

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    Nope, stop downloading and running stuff you shouldn't.

    Also, delete the reference to it in
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
    And you may want to check your firewall for any references to it as well.

    And I found a couple more tidbits of info
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    "It's actually a cheap C# miner from HackForums. It costs approx $15 and it's intended to be fully undetectable (the downloaded part). It's mostly used by script kiddies so I wouldn't worry too much."

    "So far from googling people have found it with Crysis 3 and Tombraider"
    What the poster didn't add was that these are the "cracked" versions of these games.
     
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    WhiteLightning Don Illuminati Staff Member

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    lmao :D
     
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    lol...
     
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    Nowadays you don't really need it on client side, except when you're running games that were programmed with java (like minecraft), then you obviously need the virtual machine.
    It's more common in the server side world.
     
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    Lawlface? :pc1:
     
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    I like mine with steamed half n half.
     
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  15. Year

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    thanks for the headsDown. :D
     
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    Well the only thing I found is two run folders , one for windows live messenger and one for google chrome update.And to be on the safe side I uninstalled java and deleted everything related to it
     
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  17. Mr_ALLroy

    Mr_ALLroy Ancient Guru

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    Just delete the "iehighutil.exe" entry. Looks like you don't have to worry about it though.
     
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  18. The Chubu

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    This. Its very widely used for coding front ends to databases and such. Java Enterprise Edition is very popular for that kind of stuff. Lots of knowledge of Java EE (and C#) can get you many job opportunities.

    For the every day stuff its only used on some webs with Java Web Start, but scripting languages have such a broad scope nowadays that plenty of web applications can run out of HTML5, Flash, Javascript and so on, without requiring the "power" of running code on a client JVM.
     
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    just download from reliable sources, lol, *runs*
     
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