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Virus/Worm attacks - are they getting worse?
Carol Haynes:
Is it just me or are virus and worm attacks getting worse?
I have gone for years without getting any malware on my system and in the space of a week I have had two unrelated incidents!
The first (which I mentioned in a different thread) swaped my DNS server so that all my internet traffic was routed through a server in the Ukraine!
Today another nasty managed to install AutoRun.inf files on every drive and resycled\boot.com (as a hidden system file/folder).
I don't know what the payload was but NOD32 managed to delete the files as fast as they replicated (but didn't clean my system of the problem).
No harm done and I now have a clean system again - but these must have been aquired as drivebys on websites.
I didn't visit porn or warez sites, I don't play games and the sites I visit are almost always mainstream website - so what is going on?
Am I paranoid or is someone really out to get me?
cranioscopical:
Am I paranoid or is someone really out to get me?-Carol
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Definitely! :)
Sorry to see you've been bugged by this kind of thing!
wreckedcarzz:
Am I paranoid or is someone really out to get me?-Carol
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Definitely! :)
Sorry to see you've been bugged by this kind of thing!
-cranioscopical (October 02, 2008, 06:05 PM)
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;D ;D ;D
Carol Haynes:
:-[
f0dder:
Are you behind a NATing router? (without DMZ and with sensible forwarding rules!)
Do you have XP's firewall enabled?
Do you use firefox+adblockplus+noscript?
If you answer yes to all the above, you shouldn't get malware... unless something's really really wrong.
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