New Malicious Advertisements circulating
Posted
Thursday, November 20, 2008 9:15 PM
by
hwaldron
On Monday, I got some good experience myself as I cleaned multiple copies of AntiVirus 2008 from my sister's new Vista PC (which come with a 90 day copy of Norton's Internet Suite, that had expired and was no longer effective). As I installed the free version of Avast in it's place, I was only prompted a couple of times by UAC for the uninstall/reinstall process. This was all accomplished on my lunch hour and it ended up being a good experience. These fake (aka "rouge") security programs are definitely are out there in the wild.
Be careful with any website you visit and use CTRL + SHIFT + ESC to invoke Windows Task manager for safely exiting any attacks you encounter in the future.
New Malicious Advertisements circulating
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2008/11/new_maladvertisement_reports.php
QUOTE: Maybe things aren't really any worse than they've been in the past, but I've been seeing a lot of reports of malicious web advertisements on legitimate sites lately. Many have come from the Spyware Sucks blog, a worthy addition to any RSS reader ...