| reply to moonpuppy
Re: foxnews.com infected? jadedkisses, I'm no expert, but I'll try to answer your questions.
1. It's called scareware because, the infection scheme is to trick the unwary user into enabling the malware to get into his/her machine by scaring them with an message that appears legit. It informs them of bogus problems found on their computer. Click 'here' to fix this problem. That click leads to a successful infection of the computer.
What can happen varies, from a simple browser homepage hijack to worse. Usually the scheme wants the user to buy some bogus security software, which is usually malware as well.
2. Hard to say where your trojans came from. One helpful tool for updating all of your SW is secunia PSI available here:
»secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
Java seems to be a special case where updating to current version will not remove older vulnerable version(s). They need to be removed via add remove programs.
3. Real experts have posted on this thread and given me sufficient reason to block foxnews.com in avast.
Until a consensus (here) shows the site to be clean, the block remains (FWIW, this is a personal choice, others should do as they are comfortable with). Based on reports it seems that major news sites (CNN etc) seem to be experiencing these problems more frequently, so apply caution when visiting these sites.
A little OT, but I hope helpful. |
