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Markus Jansson
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Re: Another WinFixer infiltration...this time on www.wfaa.com

How can you - or anyone else - get infected by simply visiting a website? You must be using unpatched old browsers. I tryed to infect my system with Winfixer...just for fun...but I failed. I would have had to download and run .exe file to get infected.

MoreCoffee
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I looked around at hxxp://www.wfaa.com/localnews/investigates/ for a bit and didn't see anything, I used IE7 BTW. For security I'm running WinXP SP2 (all patches), NOD security suite beta, SandBoxIE, and IE-SPYAD. The only ugly thing I found at that site was the redirect "become a member" page.
mysec
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said by jansson_mark:

How can you - or anyone else - get infected by simply visiting a website? You must be using unpatched old browsers.

Only days after Apple released Mac OS X 10.4.10, it has also released Security Update 2007-006.

»news.com.com/8301-10784_ ··· 1_3-0-20
quote:
Both vulnerabilities involve surfing the Internet.
They affect the previous version of the OS. I wonder how quickly
MAC people patch|upgrade!


youveshutmedown
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They affect the previous version of the OS. I wonder how quickly
MAC people patch|upgrade! [/BQUOTE :


MACs are inherently secure, and don't need to be patched or updated because they are impervious to exploits/viruses/hacking, aren't they?

LOL