  jansson_mark Markus Jansson Premium join:2001-08-05 Finland
| reply to Doctor Four 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. -- My computer security & privacy related homepage »www.markusjansson.net Use HushTools or GnuPG/PGP to encrypt any email before sending it to me to protect our privacy. |
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  sectionsix Premium join:2004-11-03 Tempe, AZ
edit: June 22nd, @06:59PM
| 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. |
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 mysec Premium join:2005-11-29
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| reply to jansson_mark 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_3-973384···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!
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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 |
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