Hi all,
I'm a network administrator\engineer by trade. These types of attacks are becoming more and more common everyday unfortunately, we have seen many, many web sites attacked this way, they are known these days as drive by attacks. I literally can not count the amount of affected machines we have cleaned in the last 12 months. For those using Mac OS, android, Linux etc, you will find that you are not going to be affected. 99% of malicious software will only affect Windows machines simply because they make up over 90% of the PC OS market.
Some web sites of note that have been used to launch these attacks are US government web sites, the UN web site, youtube. The company I work for administors and supports well over 20 smb networks comprising about 60 servers and just 600 over seats (users) and as I said before we have seen these infections occur on a weekly basis. I recommend PC Tools spyware doctor if you can spare about $50 US, this will provide you with 3 licenses so if you have more than 1 PC as most do these days it is well worth it. This antimalware package has found infections on machines that hjave come up as clean using 3 different packages. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free download from Microsoft and isn't too bad as well as Malwarebytes antimalware. If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
I'm a network administrator\engineer by trade. These types of attacks are becoming more and more common everyday unfortunately, we have seen many, many web sites attacked this way, they are known these days as drive by attacks. I literally can not count the amount of affected machines we have cleaned in the last 12 months. For those using Mac OS, android, Linux etc, you will find that you are not going to be affected. 99% of malicious software will only affect Windows machines simply because they make up over 90% of the PC OS market.
Some web sites of note that have been used to launch these attacks are US government web sites, the UN web site, youtube. The company I work for administors and supports well over 20 smb networks comprising about 60 servers and just 600 over seats (users) and as I said before we have seen these infections occur on a weekly basis. I recommend PC Tools spyware doctor if you can spare about $50 US, this will provide you with 3 licenses so if you have more than 1 PC as most do these days it is well worth it. This antimalware package has found infections on machines that hjave come up as clean using 3 different packages. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free download from Microsoft and isn't too bad as well as Malwarebytes antimalware. If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
ark firefox - I am looking for a link as it has changed since I got it. It is a versions of Firefox with some really good addons installed to protect your browser and therefore your PC.
