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Check this out Wayne, They just tried to sneak it in again.
- Thread starter George-CT
- Start date
Wayne in BC
New member
via a script on a website you visit? Can you check your history and narrow it down? Are you using IE or firefox on that machine? Are you running "no script"? At least Norton caught it!
Lately there have been many incidences of "drive by" infections where you only need to visit a page and not even click on anything to be infected. Many of these are fake websites made to look like legit ones and will come up in a google or other search looking like the real thing.
One can also block them in the hosts file by using "HostsMan" free from Cnet downloads.
So far i have not heard of the fake anti virus spread by email other than someone following spam links.
Getting really nasty on the net and it seems the worst comes from Russia.
Lately there have been many incidences of "drive by" infections where you only need to visit a page and not even click on anything to be infected. Many of these are fake websites made to look like legit ones and will come up in a google or other search looking like the real thing.
One can also block them in the hosts file by using "HostsMan" free from Cnet downloads.
So far i have not heard of the fake anti virus spread by email other than someone following spam links.
Getting really nasty on the net and it seems the worst comes from Russia.
XP setup at all. I just downloaded the Hostman to see what its about. Quick download. As a rule I'm pretty careful where I go. Forget which one but one of these alerts me when I click on a questionable web site with different colored cautions.... I have so many program on here I forget which one is doing what.
Geo
Geo
Wayne in BC
New member
As long as your comfortable working with your hosts files it is a highly recommended program but not for those who don't know their puters well. You of course won't have a problem as you are way above my level of puter competence.
I sure like the firefox security but the newest releases seem to be buggy, much more than it used to be. I got a bad patch from Norton (NIS2010) a month ago and it and firefox addons were not happy together until Norton released a proper patch weeks later, also microsoft had a hand in the problem by installing a bum extention to the fox without telling anyone
I sure like the firefox security but the newest releases seem to be buggy, much more than it used to be. I got a bad patch from Norton (NIS2010) a month ago and it and firefox addons were not happy together until Norton released a proper patch weeks later, also microsoft had a hand in the problem by installing a bum extention to the fox without telling anyone