Quote:Original post by Sirisian I'm amazed you got a virus by just visiting a page using firefox. I'd report that to the firefox development team.
Really? It's happened to me twice and to four other people I know.
Firefox is now the most insecure browser. Due to its popularity, it's being targetted like crazy.
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Quote:Original post by Kaze I found that most of the drive by viruses take the form of iframes embedded into advertisements and have never gotten a virus warning since I installed addblock plus.
Pretty much. I used to not run an adblocker out of respect for the sites trying to make a buck. But after two viruses and days of wasted effort trying to get rid of them I said fuck it and now run adblock, peerguardian, and noscript. It's a shame it had to come to this, but oh well. This is why we can't have nice things.
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Quote:Original post by Ysaneya When this happens to me (rarely, fortunately), my immediate reaction is to do a system restore. Normally, Windows will automatically create restore points each time you install a software, or every few days. So far it was always enough to get ride of the virus.
Y.
Some viruses can target the system restore too, sadly. In most cases it will still work, but you should double-check that everything's back in good condition once you're restored!
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Quote:Original post by Sirisian I'm amazed you got a virus by just visiting a page using firefox. I'd report that to the firefox development team.
Really? It's happened to me twice and to four other people I know.
Firefox is now the most insecure browser. Due to its popularity, it's being targetted like crazy.
I recently started using Safari for Windows. I was downloading a whole bunch of browsers to test some web development, and found I really liked it. It is blazing fast (even more so than Firefox, believe it or not) and has a very novel start-up screen that shows real-time previews of all your favorite sites.
It is also not being targeted yet by browser-specific malware.
