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jansson_mark
Markus Jansson
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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.
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sectionsix
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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.

mysec
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June 22nd, @09:01PM

reply to jansson_mark
said by jansson_mark See Profile :

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!



youveshutmedown

@sbcglobal.net

said by mysec See Profile

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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